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The Sins of the Fathers: Why the Catholic Church will purge itself to survive...
In George Pell, so it appears, the Middle Ages live again. To paraphrase Lytton Strachey is perhaps an activity mostly lost to time but, just as reactionary voices unerringly appear in the Vatican’s...
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Forget #FakeNews, Welcome to #FakeGovernment | Adrian Yeung
I read an interesting article recently that essentially blames Al Gore for the current state of the climate change (non) debate in the United States and around the world. It suggested that the...
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How to Stay Informed in the Age of Fake News | James Dance
Helping other people. The free and open sharing of ideas and solutions. This is what politics should be about. Not a competition to determine who is the most offended, or who is the most privileged. We...
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The War on Drugs – Duterte’s Year in Power | Marielle Punzal
The President of the Phillippines, Rodrigo Duterte, promised a ‘bloody presidency” – and so far, he has delivered. Seventeen-year-old Kian Delos Santos, was a year eleven student who dreamed of...
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Do You Know Your Enemy? | Kiersten Davis
“TRILLION DOLLAR HANDOUT.” This was plastered across the front page of the Herald Sun on Monday this week. This was followed by every morning show on commercial television citing the fact that we...
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How Carles Puigdemont has Outmanoeuvred the Spanish Government | Reagan Ward
Mariano Rajoy has entered the Catalan independence dispute with his teeth glinting, thinking that the only conceivable way to put down President Carles Puigdemont and his supporters is by mauling them....
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The Viability of Kurdish Statehood | Kiersten Davis
The Kurds are the largest stateless minority in the world, with approximately 30 million Kurdish people living in sections of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. Up to 20% of the populations of Turkey and...
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Is Korean Reunification Necessary? | Adrian Yeung
It may not have been his intention, but last week Trump posed a question that was surprisingly thought-provoking. Speaking to South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul about ongoing tensions between...
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Green, Gold and Red – A History of the Sino-Australian Relationship | Reagan...
On the afternoon of July 9th 1971, within the confines of the rather magnificent Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square, U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger sat down with the...
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Bring On The Time When ‘Nobody Has To Say #MeToo Again’| Brodie Logue
The bleeding hearts of the Hollywood elite at the Golden Globes shed figurative blood almost as rapidly as the bloodshed seeping from the hearts of real victims. In a 2011 display of her ‘temperament’,...
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A New Perspective On Terrorism | Meena Johnson
In spite of how far we have come in the fight for equality of the sexes, there are still remnants of our historically patriarchal system today. Women were largely excluded from the creation of...
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Is Australia’s Aid Money Being Allocated To The Right People? | James Dance
Australia has a strong and long history of providing aid to countries all around the world, in both military and non-military forms. Australia’s commitment to providing aid has continued into 2018. The...
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US Military Presence Overseas – The Base Of An Empire | Fred Johnston
One of the most ubiquitous aspects of modern society is the American military presence in far-flung places around the world. To truly grasp the extent of this phenomenon, one only needs to glance at...
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How to Stay Informed in the Age of Fake News | James Dance
Helping other people. The free and open sharing of ideas and solutions. This is what politics should be about. Not a competition to determine who is the most offended, or who is the most privileged. We...
View ArticleSideline or Saddle – How Young People Need to Retake Their Own Agency |...
The concept of youth media has a particular connotation that we keep reproducing for ourselves, confirming all the reasons why youth voices and concerns are sidelined. Centrethought believes that...
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Are We Eating Aliens? Why Extraterrestials Haven’t Made Contact Yet | Aditi...
Humanity’s fascination with the stars has traversed the ages. For centuries we have gazed up at the heavens, plagued by a simple question: Are we alone? We have ploughed billions of dollars and...
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How the Identities of Australia and New Zealand Should be Shaped | Reagan Ward
Writing for The Guardian in August 2017, journalist Toby Manhire noted an unusual cooling of Australia-New Zealand relations. This chill came during what proved to be the early days of the...
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Canada Legalises Cannabis – Why Can’t Australia? | Daniel Huigsloot
Canada is now the second country in the world (after Uruguay) to legalise and regulate cannabis use. With one in five Americans living in states where marijuana is legal or in the process of...
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Leave Avocado Toast Out of This: There’s Plenty For Us to Be Angry About |...
Remember when an entitled white man somewhere said something along the lines of ‘millennials could afford to buy a house if they stopped spending so much money on avocado toast’? While roasting him...
View ArticleListen to Your Grandmother: Heuristics as a Weapon Against Shoddy Thinking |...
Combatting the onslaught of low quality or outright false analysis circulating online means wielding simple, effective tools – not complex appeals to the rational mind. It is unreasonable for any...
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