This week
‘If we were starting Australia all over again, I wouldn’t support having the existing state…More
Browsing: Australian Politics
Who cares? The here and now needs of children
‘Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever,…More
Rethinking education
The great change in American educational policy, Howard Gardner once told me, was bringing the…More
Steady as she goes
Last Wednesday just before 9.30am Westpac’s trading room floor was very quiet. The odd phone…More
Life-ism and 'The Culture of Life'
When the late Pope John Paul II came out in praise of ‘the sacred and…More
Gallipoli – the fatal car park
I just can’t believe it. After a fortnight expecting the unfolding of a great national…More
Australia in the dock at the UN
Human rights watchers held their collective breath early last month, when a delegation from Australia…More
Corporations and war
Recently, President George W Bush nominated Navy Secretary, Gordon England, for the position of Deputy…More
Goodbye to all that
Woytjla is dead, but Woytjlism lives. Whatever your views of his politics and theology, there…More
Confessions of a secular humanist
It was the quote from a recent New York Times Magazine that gave me the…More