We need to talk about envy. If there’s one line that runs down the human heart, it’s envy. It was Aeschylus who said, It is in the character of very few men to honor without envying a friend who has prospered’. It’s all too human to covet things we don’t have in a world bereft …
Australian schoolchildren are becoming dumber, not smarter. In the recent NAPLAN test, one in three Australian students were found to be below the national benchmark. Despite the sacrosanct status of digital technologies within the apparatus of school education, results aren’t improving, they’re worsening and no attention has been given to technology’s deadly role in proliferating …
Walk down any main street in Australia and you’ll see a cross section of Australian society, there’s people from different backgrounds and over 60% have one thing in common- they’re obese. But the love affair between Aussies and obesity is a deadly one. There are some in the world who are so starved of food …
While Western society has increasingly secularised, we haven’t just turned our back on the Christian faith, we’ve assaulted it. The weapon of choice? The unabashed transformation of once churches and cathedrals into nightclubs, bars,hotels and strip clubs. In it we lose the remnants of our Christian heritage and we lose our soul too. Once the …
You know society is morally bankrupt when its role models are sports stars. Confusing sporting prowess with moral wisdom, our society feeds off the notion that somehow young, overpaid, self-centered, immature, and highly talented players are role models-examples to be imitated. Ronaldo and Messi are not icons of imitation, they are merely soccer players but …
India’s emergence as a world power is something to behold. And yet, the growing pains of future superpower are still haunted by anti-Western tendencies, poverty, corruption and an ancient caste system that perpetuates systemic inequality. “India is a democracy; it is in our DNA. As far as the different political parties are concerned, I firmly …
If far-left utopian fantasies of open borders were once lusted over, the southern border crisis in Texas has all but obliterated their phantasmic appeal. People do not harmoniously, legally, and peacefully move freely between nations; they do so criminally, shrewdly, and by the millions. If he is victorious in 2024, Trump needs to finish what …
Somewhere along the line, athletes felt their platforms ought to be used as a place to make moral stands about the injustices in the world. Rather than dismissing this half baked messiah complex facade, society brought in hook,line and sinker. Now, Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja has found himself leading an unwanted moral crusade. Michael Jordan …
More and more Australian children are being medicated with drugs like Ritalin to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Boys are particularly overrepresented in the diagnosis, and the symptoms of the ‘disorder’ include difficulty concentrating, absent-mindedness, and a short attention span. While some parents will choose to find non-invasive ways to cope with the disorder, many …
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With calls to erase Australia day, we ought to ask, what are we trying to achieve? Should we inherit the guilt of our ancestors and chastise ourselves for our past wrongdoings? Time and time again, Australia Day is seen as a ‘day of mourning’, ‘regret’ or ‘invasion day’. Some claim that Captain Cook’s arrival in 1788 …
