This article was written on 16 August 2022. At the time of approval for publication, local vaccines for Monkeypox have run out, local transmission has been recorded in Victoria and NSW, and there are 106 cases of the disease of in Australia. Over the last 2 years, it has become common to refer to the […]
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On 16 August 2022, the Tasmanian Anglican Bishop Richard Condie, chair of GAFCON (the Global Anglican Future Conference), announced to its members the formation of a new church, the breakaway “Southern Cross” diocese, to be headed by the former Archbishop of Sydney, Glenn Davies. GAFCON is an international alliance of Anglicans opposed to liberalising tendencies
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As news of the stabbing of Salman Rushdie reverberates around the globe, speculation in the Western press about what this violent act signifies and why it has occurred has intensified. How did Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old alleged assailant, access the stage so easily? What insights can be gleaned from Matar’s social media history, which suggests an interest in ‘extremist
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For historians, libraries and archives are the laboratory. They are the places where, as researchers, we gather what the scientists call “data”. They are where many of us feel most ourselves, where we are best able to feel that we are scholars rather than bureaucrats or publicists or the one hundred and one other roles
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Imagine the following scenario. A senior academic, whose field of research is biology but not immunology, has highly controversial views about the effectiveness of certain vaccines. He writes several articles on this topic and sends them to scientific journals outside the field of immunology, where they are peer-reviewed by scholars who are not immunologists. The
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The Pacific is back in the Australian political consciousness as our newly elected politicians make strenuous efforts to counter China’s growing presence and prominence. The 166 million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean is larger than the combined total of all land areas on earth, comprising one-third of the physical space of the planet and
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The New South Wales North Coast experiences its third flood pulse in as many weeks, with devastating images of grief, exhaustion and loss in towns such as Lismore. Two IPCC reports scream (albeit in sober scientific language), that ‘any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure
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The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.