What is reality and why can’t we bear much of it? In the past, I’ve written about the phenomenon of ‘reality’ shows; I’ve even been on one (Everyone’s A Critic) and although it was more honest than ...

We need no reminding of the depth of the division that exists in our Australian community. It's there every time we go online, turn on the TV, open the newspaper. Our politics is focused on ...

Let’s say you found yourself broke and had nothing to tide you over for the next few week. If you were in desperate need of 200 dollars, today, do you have a friend you could call who would give it to ...

The first time my daughter was pushed down by a boy, she was three. He left her bleeding in the dirt and didn’t apologise. ‘Sorry,’ his mother said, ‘he’s a ...

Russell Brand’s conversion to Christianity is baffling to many; explained away as a ‘cynical PR stunt’, an attempt by a man accused of sexual misconduct to baptise away his sins in the River Thames.

Generation Z and Alpha, growing up in a digital world, face unique challenges. Since 2015, smartphones and social media have dramatically changed childhood, replacing face-to-face interactions and ...

The firebombing of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne rightly drew condemnation and shock from Australians of every level. Although the circumstances and the mindset of those who destroyed the ...

Is there an enlightening, non-church analogy for the synod? Is it akin to a legislative session of parliament, the annual meeting of corporate shareholders, or an event like a concert or Test match?

Last February, Alexei Navalny (1976-2024), a Russian political dissident and anti-corruption campaigner, perished in a remote, high security prison in the Arctic Circle. He was serving out multiple ...

In the 17th century, Eton College boys faced a peculiar mandate: every morning, over breakfast, they were compelled to smoke a pipe of tobacco. This was a supposed safeguard, with tobacco smoke ...

This is a love story, and a literary love story at that. But, on the side of Jesuit priest Father Barry Martinson, at least, it is not a story of romance. Rather, he speaks of sacrificial love ‘which ...

Larry Fink, the chief executive of the world’s biggest fund management company Black Rock, recently argued that ‘the big winners will be countries that have shrinking populations’. He said in the past ...