by Terri M. Kelleher Upper-house MP Fiona Patten of the Reason Party (formerly Sex Party) recently introduced her Education and Training Amendment (School Employment) Bill into the Victorian Parliament. Ms Patten claims her Bill is to prevent religious discrimination in the engagement of chaplains in Victorian government schools. She says that a person has to…
by Patrick J. Byrne Epidemiologists study the incidence, distribution and possible control of diseases. They find a good measure of covid19 deaths is to count “excess deaths”: that is the number of deaths this year compared with the average of deaths over the same period (say, January to August) in the past four years. While…
by Chris McCormack GetUp’s foreign funding has seemingly diminished A $3.5 million 2019 election spend gleaned just one seat 3 Investigations into GetUp’s independence continue Despite $12.8 million in donations in 2018-19, partly foreign funded, and a $3.5 million election spend, activist group GetUp spectacularly failed to unseat the government in the 2019 federal election.…
by Brian Coman In Part One of this essay, Brian Coman described distributism as an application of the principle of subsidiarity aimed at enabling human flourishing. That is, it takes seriously the judgement that the family is the first and closest human community and thus must be supported where faltering and left alone where it…
