Moral

Craig Fry

High on moral panic

Craig Fry Last week we did indeed witness the blackest day in Australian sport. But the low point was the public reaction to this latest drugs-in-sport story, not the apparent truth of the matter.

Michael Leunig

Just a cartoonist with a moral duty to speak

Michael Leunig I am not interested in defending the powerful, the well-resourced and the well-armed.

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Paul Sheehan

Point schoolies to moral compass

Paul Sheehan Schoolies is the week when a lot of parents put a lot of trust into a lot of teenagers. Everyone knows there is going to be release from the pressures of exams, plus plenty of peer pressure, plus...

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Michael Bachelard

Indonesia's moral police a threat to democracy

Michael Bachelard When I wrote in March about the Indonesian religious affairs minister wanting to ban mini-skirts because he believed them ''pornographic,'' one comment on the Fairfax website stood out.

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George Williams

The moral quandary of sterilising a child

George Williams A recent Family Court decision permitting the sterilisation of an 11-year-old girl with a severe disability presents a legal and moral quandary.

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Chris Berg

An assault on diet

Chris Berg A proposed eating plan is far removed from the reality of the food we put on our plate.

Paul Monk

Pondering the possibilities of bridge-building after Benedict

Paul Monk Almost all of the commentary following the announcement by Pope Benedict XVI that he was retiring seems to have concentrated on relatively banal topics, such as what he will do now, who will succeed...

Martin McKenzie-Murray

Camera drones: technological advance or Orwellian spies?

Martin McKenzie-Murray It was not until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 that the world began to grasp the diabolical scale of repression in East Germany.

Gay Alcorn

Kicking goals on gay pride

Gay Alcorn Sometimes it is tempting to feel sorry for the AFL. It's so darn progressive and open-minded.

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Ratzinger was behind great Catholic cover-up

Christopher Hitchens Citing wavering strength of mind and body, Pope Benedict XVI announced his decision to resign from the papacy at the end of February. He will be the first Pope to abdicate in nearly six centuries.

Darwin, dinosaurs and the devil

Mark Joseph Stern An Australian creationist believes Charles Darwin is to blame for drug abuse and pornography, and that people rode dinosaurs.

Jacqueline Maley

PMS may be gone but women are in no mood to lose anger

Jacqueline Maley News of the death of pre-menstrual syndrome came as a terrible shock.

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Jonathan Horn

Lance's shades of grey

Jonathan Horn Outrage is obscuring the fact that Armstrong is a mass of contradictions - like the rest of us.

Joumanah El Matrah

Shutting out the 'sinners' feeds bigotry

Joumanah El Matrah Allowing religious organisations to discriminate undermines the true meaning of faith.

Sports doping should be legal and controlled

Lance Armstrong is the arch-villain of the allegedly extinct era of doping in cycling. The cancer survivor, philanthropist and seven-time winner of the Tour de France has been burned at the stake,...

Jonathan Mahler

End this vicious cycle maturely

Jonathan Mahler In case you haven't heard, Lance Armstrong has confessed to doping during his cycling career. All the faux moral posturing can officially stop.