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How to become a ‘professional human being’

A growing international movement is inviting young children to philosophise in primary schools in the USA, the UK and elsewhere – but Australia ...

Climate change kills people – just how bad is that?

John Broome is an Oxford philosopher and a lead author of the International Panel on Climate Change report.  In this ...

‘Ex-Gay’ Counselling: It’s Happening In Australian Schools

The Global Mail writer Luke Williams exposes the superstition and bigotry of some Christian schools in Australia in ‘Ex-Gay’ Counselling: It’s ...

The myth of the mandate

Prime Minister Tony Abbott seems to be labouring under the misapprehension that he has a “mandate” for all the policies ...

The War Against Christians?

Barney Zwartz, The Age's Religion Editor, on the "war against Christianity": Age of intolerance: the war on religion. But being religious ...

The Case for Secularism: a Neutral State in an Open Society

By Julian Baggini, British philosopher Consider the following statement from a Bishop of the Church of England: British society is ...

All the more reason.