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A Muslim vision of what Australia might be by 2050

When our children and grandchildren look around Australia in 2050, I hope they will not ask ...  
Far-Right secretive political group Advance appears at election inquiry

Far-Right Advance "stacked" with Liberal Party operatives and backed by billionaires.  
Barnaby Joyce discovers the political power of pinkwashing

Sexuality does not confer political virtue any more than ethnicity or faith does.  
Jillian Segal's 'Understanding Antisemitism in Australia': A lesson in propaganda

Jillian Segal's 'Understanding Antisemitism in Australia' report is an embarrassment, writes Dr ...  
The Census religion question that distorts Australia

A flawed Census question has shaped decades of misleading data and funding decisions.  
Why Australians need the right to answer their own Census

Australians should be free to record their own beliefs, identity and conscience without someone ...  
Modi marvels Melbourne while equality, justice and pluralism plummet back in India

For countries like Australia, fostering a partnership with a stable, inclusive India is not only a ...  
Before the marches: They were already here

Muslim men who stopped to pray five times a day in the red dust of the Australian interior did the ...  
Scrutiny mounts over Plymouth Brethren’s Federal Election interference

Allegations of covert coordination, voter intimidation and data sharing have thrust the Plymouth ...  
Reclaiming intentionality in a world of constant visual noise

Intentionality offers a way to engage with the world without being defined by it.  
BOOK REVIEW: 'Domination – The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity'

'Domination' is a highly erudite history of the Rise of Christianity.  
The hardening of youth in Israel’s nationalist enclave

As a Jewish Australian who spent considerable time in Israel, I noticed, decades ago, something ...  
When religion becomes a political weapon, everyone loses 

When religion is fused with ambition and power, it becomes a tool of division and social exhaus ...  
Religious warfare rhetoric emerges in conflict with Iran

As the Iran conflict escalates, religious rhetoric – from claims of divine missions to apocal ...  
Why the West may come to mourn Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

The assassination of Iran's Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in an unprovoked first strike, starting ...  
Scott Morrison’s holy war: Preaching politics in Israel

In Jerusalem, Scott Morrison blended faith, fear and foreign policy into a sermon that excused ...  
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EDITORIAL: Australia Day 2026 violently displayed the deep divisions in our nation

There’s an old saw about tourists in Ireland pulling up to the side of the road to ask a local ...  
How Iran’s regime weaponised religion

Behind the language of morality and law, Iran’s theocracy has spent decades protecting abusers ...  
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