This is an edited version of the book-launch speech by […]

In 2008, long before Tony Abbott incurred the wrath of apologists for inter-generational hopelessness by describing remote communities as 'a lifestyle choice', David McKnight detailed their violence and social pathologies. As talk of the Voice and 'oldest living culture' fills the air his essay is well worth re-visiting

People have often wondered what Jesus was doing in the […]

Careful attention to how Jesus uses scripture and draws from it principles that imply radical conclusions gives insight into the nature of his intensive earlier study. It is a complex and difficult task. Certainly, the program of reconstructing Jesus’ PhD from his later seminars and Q&A sessions is only in its infancy. Much further research is needed.

When they buried Peter Coleman yesterday in Sydney, his own words were the most incisive testament to a life of principle and intellectual integrity. 'Once you have contracted the habit of looking behind the screen of life,' he wrote, 'once you are touched by the compulsion to examine conflicting values and ideas of the world, there is no turning back'

The court system acted correctly in putting the evidence to a jury -- or rather, two juries. The problem is simply a mismatch between the verdict and the objective relation between the evidence and the jury's conclusion

According to a gaggle of activist philosophers, medical practitioners who decline to perform abortions or euthanasia are guilty of putting 'their own personal conscience' ahead of 'patient wellbeing'. Their solution, predictably, is tribunals, career sanctions and enforced conformity

In the 2012 Queen’s Birthday honours list, Australia’s highest honour […]

In 1956, the year of Quadrant’s founding, Angus & Robertson […]