Instagram and the death of the natural world

20 Jan 2019 | Dr Peter Fisher discusses the erosion of the natural environment at the hands of the digital ...  

The scourge of neoliberal private-public finance

9 Dec 2018 | The intrusion of private finance in the public sphere has had disastrous consequences, writes John ...  

Fascism: Are we there yet?

26 Aug 2018 | Martin Hirst interviews Australia's most prominent Nazi-hunter, Andy Fleming, to better understand ...  

'Nasty, brutish and short': Hobbes and the Coalition’s politics of exclusion

2 Jun 2018 | Political editor Dr Martin Hirst has been musing on recent political news while re-reading Thomas ...  

Australia can't rely on 'deterrence' to excuse its immoral refugee policies

20 Apr 2018 | The only argument offered for Australia's torturous refugee policies is that it stops others ...  

The ethics of Manus Island

28 Nov 2017 | What is happening on Manus Island isn’t morally justifiable and neither is the behaviour of the ...  

Kevin Donnelly, the IPA, discredited studies and the Right's 'universal truth'

31 Oct 2017 | Kevin Donnelly uses a discredited IPA study as a benchmark for university education content and ...  

Moral Panic 101: Safe Schools and the new folk devils

26 Oct 2017 | Many social scientists of an older generation will have felt a warm glow at the appearance of ...  

Voluntary assisted dying: Solving the impossible trolley problem

30 Sep 2017 | Bills introduced to both NSW and Victorian state parliaments argue that voluntary assisted dying ...  

Mathias Cormann warns of Labor's 'reds under the beds'

28 Aug 2017 | Mathias Cormann warns of Labor's "shift to the left", but is socialism on the cards for Australia ...  

Artificial Intelligence: Will it really terminate the labour force?

8 Aug 2017 | It's almost scary to think that the world as we know it may well be run by Artificial Intelligence ...  

The Ali Fahour incident and sport's unseen violence

10 Jul 2017 | The tolerance of violence in sport is a symptom of a far greater malaise involving a largely ...  

Raiding superannuation: Housing, the debt trap and parasitic capitalism

24 Jun 2017 | Allowing people to raid their superannuation to buy overpriced homes is more evidence the system ...  

Grenfell Tower fire disaster: Engineering responsibility

17 Jun 2017 | In the aftermath of Grenfell Tower fire, people are asking how: how can this happen?  

The 'lucky country', the 'fair go' and getting what we deserve

6 Jun 2017 | We celebrate our good luck in Australia. But when things don’t always go our way we’d be glad ...  

Might monogamy be the real sexual revolution?

28 May 2017 | Many of us assumed free-love promiscuity was radical — but is it? Dr Mark Manolopoulos discus ...  

In case you missed it — abortion is still illegal in NSW and QLD in 2017

16 May 2017 | The debate over abortion is alive and well but there might be a flaw in the pro-life position, one ...  

Rare gems like Mark Colvin and the future of the fourth and fifth estates

15 May 2017 | The future of journalism and democracy lies in news and analysis that reflects the interests of ...