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By Greg Spearritt More than a year after COVID-19 burst onto the world stage, religion is still enabling its spread. It didn’t take long in 2020 for...

By Greg Spearritt Let me state up front: the current gender crisis is not up to women to fix. It’s male behaviour and a deeply sexist culture, and a...

By Greg Spearritt No doubt the issues around attitudes to women and skewed attitudes to sex are society-wide, but there are microcosms of...

By Greg Spearritt Who to believe? Attorney-General Christian Porter or the woman, unfortunately now deceased, who accused him of raping her when...

By John Carr When I was growing up in the 1940s and 50s, I was often intrigued by some of the pejorative terms used by adults. The adults of my...

By John Carr The metaphoric use of ‘woke’ reached mainstream Australian media only during 2020 – when there were lots of more important issues to...

John Carr recommends... I’ve long been a fan of Louis Theroux and am currently enjoying ‘Life on the Edge’, a retrospective TV series on ABC Ch22...

By Rodney Eivers I have been pondering a news item I saw this week. It involved an interview with a young woman in her teens in Tasmania who...

By Greg Spearritt In the wake of the Australia Day honour bestowed on tennis great and influential Christian homophobe Margaret Court, Alistair...

By Greg Spearritt Australia Day, celebrated – or mourned – on January 26, marks the arrival of the First Fleet ships at Port Jackson. So much about...

By John Carr The new President's Catholicism has been mentioned throughout the election campaign. Since Biden's victory and, even more, since his...

By Greg Spearritt Anwen Crawford, music critic with The Monthly, has an interesting take on a fundamental shift in identity formation. In our...