Tinder hasn't changed the nature of dating or set love on a path to ruin. But it has encouraged attitudes best left unencouraged. It feeds illusory beliefs that love can be made safe from risk, that love is always conditional… More
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Is the media able to provide a forum in which serious ideas are treated seriously - even those ideas that run counter to its ideological creed? Or, as Hilaire Belloc claimed as far back as 1929, can the media do little more than confirm "the Modern Mind" in its imbecility, plunging liberal individualism "lower than it would otherwise have fallen" by insulating it against every suggestion that the way things are is not the way things are meant to be? More
CommentHes the highest-ranked figure in the Catholic world to be charged with concealing sexual abuse. NSW police have laid a single charge … More
Gunmen opened fire on tourists at Tunisia's national museum last night, killing at least 17 people. There are now fears for what it m… More
In the midst of a hard-fought election campaign in New South Wales, Liberal Premier Mike Baird and Labor Opposition leader Luke Foley… More
One of Australias leading Christian groups is posing a tough question to what it calls "conservative evangelical institutions": Is so… More
Recent terrorist events in Europe and the wave of radicalised young Muslims travelling to Syria to fight with ISIS have focused atten… More
Using pills, drugs and brain stimulation to solve social and moral challenges in the 21st century - is that a good idea? Climate chan… More
Reporter Joanne McCarthy from the Newcastle Herald helped expose the Catholic Church's protection of paedophile priests. She speaks to Emma Alberici about the decision to charge Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson with cover… More
Reporter Joanne McCarthy from the Newcastle Herald helped expose the Catholic Church's protection of paedophile priests. She speaks to Emma Alberici about the decision to charge Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson with cover… More
Often when we see stories in the media about Islam, they focus on terror raids or young jihadis. A group of Australian Muslims has set up a television station to give their community a voice, including the more controversial … More