In Rejecting the Voice, Australians Reject Grievance Politics
In rejecting the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, Australians reaffirmed the democratic principle of equality before the law.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
Australia
A collection of 107 posts
The Aboriginal Voice to Parliament: Wrong in Principle, Disastrous in Practice
We should not make race the organising principle of a new chapter of our Constitution.
Ramesh Thakur
· 19 min read
A Voice from the Heart
Legal equality and the politics of disappointment.
Andrew Gleeson
· 14 min read
Four Corners' Failure
In its treatment of gender clinics, the flagship investigative program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation failed to present crucial evidence.
Bernard Lane
· 11 min read
Gender’s Truth-Distortion Field
Across the English-speaking world, the discussion of trans rights is governed by taboos, sacred myths, and, in some cases, outright lies.
Sean Masters, Raimund Hume
· 10 min read
The Inimitable Barry Humphries
Farewell to Australia’s best-known comic and social satirist.
Andrew Gleeson
· 8 min read
Why AUKUS Matters
The deal is a belated response to the Chinese Communist Party’s mushrooming belligerence.
Aaron Sarin
· 12 min read
Our Glorious Unhead of State
The idea of an Australian republic is attractive to some, but there's a strong case for a humble head of state.
Harry Lehmann
· 4 min read
An Australian Perspective on Abortion
The closest example of a counterfactual to Roe v. Wade is Australia, where there is a federal system with no unifying law or ruling concerning abortion.
Dara Macdonald
· 11 min read
Myth-making Isn’t the Right Way to ‘Indigenise’ Our Universities
Too often, the noble goal of reconciliation is being co-opted by those seeking to invent fake histories and advance politicized narratives.
Terry Moore and Carol Pybus
· 16 min read
When Mental Health Education Makes Us Sick
There must be more in our mental health toolkit than the language and mechanisms for self-diagnosis.
Clare Rowe
· 8 min read
Direct Instruction Works. So Why Is It Controversial?
In 2016, I was sitting in the classroom of a Melbourne school as Dr. Kerry Hempenstall described the early stages of a reading program. He projected a series of letters on the screen. First, he displayed an “f.” “This is an ‘f’,” he said. Then he displayed an “f” written
Greg Ashman
· 7 min read
A Better Way to Lead Christians Away from Intimate Partner Violence
Of those surveyed for the IPV report, 17 percent of self-described Anglicans said they’d experienced IPV in the last 12 months, as compared to 18 percent for the general population.
Andrew Judd
· 8 min read
Why Australia Opted for AUKUS
While Reuters reports that the French had ample warning the project was in trouble, the AUKUS announcement and the cancellation of the submarine contract nevertheless took them by surprise.
Sean Welsh
· 11 min read
Revisiting ‘Wake in Fright,’ A Peculiarly Australian Kind of Hell
Five decades after its release, Wake in Fright remains a brutally captivating reminder that modernity is just a thin veneer over the darker recesses of the human heart.
Ryan Anderson
· 16 min read