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The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Undeniable Nexus of Religion and Politics
The extremist statements by some of Sydney’s Islamic preachers attacking democracy and arguing the state of Israel must be abolished have ignited debates about religion’s place in Australian society. The ex-ALP senator Fatima Payman’s admission she sought advice from Allah when justifying her crossing the floor to recognise Palestinian statehood also has led to controversy.
On one side of the debate are those arguing there is no place for religion in the public square when deciding government policy. As Australia is a secular society and not, like Iran, a theocracy where the supreme religious leader Ayatollah Khamenei rules, the argument is that religion is a private affair.
The belief there is no place for religion in politics explains why critics denigrated Tony Abbott as “the mad monk” and why Kevin Andrews, responsible for stopping the ACT and the NT from introducing state-sanctioned suicide, was also attacked for being a politician of faith. Negating religion also…
The proportions of Aboriginal children and young people placed in a relative or kin placement or with an Aboriginal foster carer have decreased, and the proportion of Aboriginal children who were reunified with their families has declined.
Sep 09 2024
17 mins
We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
