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Dying Like An Animal: The Price Of Empathy And How Governments Use Yours Against You

Want to know why some people are more moved by greyhound baiting, than by an Aboriginal death in custody? Why the Abbott...

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Fairness as a political principle

While a popular view aligns Liberals with conservative values and personal freedom, and Labor with egalitarian values and social reform, no-one argues...

Abbott at the Press Club: A tin-pot General of open-market ideology ... 7

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Abbott at the Press Club: A tin-pot General of open-market ideology …

Over the summer, I’ve been talking to hundreds of Australians from all walks of life – in the street, on the beach,...

Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God 10

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Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God

The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God...

How 21st century capitalism is failing us 13

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How 21st century capitalism is failing us

It requires a thoroughgoing democratic transformation The popularity of Thomas Piketty’s book Capital was perhaps the publishing surprise of the year, but...