Religion
Prominent Muslim leader calls for locally-trained imams

Training Muslim imams domestically in Australia would see clerics grounded in Australian values ...  
Australian Muslims and the search for a solution to the 'War on Terror'

The media has used narratives which have contributed to 'Islamophobia' within Australia, which has ...  
Sacrificing refugees to win the election

Has Labor's voting down of motion to ban boat turnbacks reduced Australia’s moral integrity and ...  
Marriage equality and the 'Not Alone' Catholic Vote video's crocodile tears

Catholic Vote’s attempt at ‘viral content’ to combat widespread community support for ...  
Israel's cheer squad (Part 4): Whither Sydney University

The culmination of the Richard Kemp brouhaha is that the Israel cheer squad remains firmly entr ...  
Israel's cheer squad and Sydney University - Part 1

When controversial Israeli apologist, Colonel Richard Kemp, was asked to speak at Sydney Univer ...  
Time to go, Cardinal Pell

Cardinal George Pell does not seem to know it yet, but last week his world changed. Once and for ...  
Reclaiming Australia from the modern age

Last weekend’s Reclaim Australia rallies were superbly successful, but only in raising intern ...  
Is Abbott pandering to mob rule to retain power?

Is the Abbott Government just pandering to the views and values of the mob in order to retain ...  
Reclaim extremists fit right in to Abbott's Team Australia

There is room for the bigoted, hate-filled Reclaim Australia extremists in Tony Abbott’s narr ...  
Will Abbott clamp down on Reclaim Australia's racial hate rallies?

Reclaim Australia, an extreme right-wing group inciting religious and racial hatred is planning ...  
Who is pulling Abbott's strings? Church, monarchy, big corporations?

Where do the loyalties of our elected leaders lie? Are they with the Australian people, the ...  
We need to talk about radicalisation

PM Tony Abbott blames the Muslim community for not doing enough to curb radicalisation, but until ...  
Hope, not hate

Hateful bigotry will tear our nation apart creating new divisions rather than healing old ones. ...  
Abbott's folly: Boots on the ground in Iraq

Tony Abbott has committed Australia to boots on the ground in Iraq, which means Australia becomes ...  
Free speech after Charlie Hebdo

In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo, there is renewed support for the notion of untrammelled free ...  
Calls for unity and understanding as world mourns Charlie Hebdo

If the Charlie Hebdo atrocity is allowed to feed discrimination and prejudice, it will play ...  
Neutralising terror: Soft power and the Islamic State

Islam is not the problem and people who follow Islam are not the problem — Islam is, in fact ...  
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