In 1966, the Australian census indicated that only 0.8% of the population had ‘no religion’. In 1976, it was 8.3%; in 1986, it was 12.7%1; in 1996 it was 16.6%;…
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Often you will hear Christians state that ‘there are no atheists in foxholes’, indicating that when a person’s life is at risk, everybody asks for a god’s assistance. A variant…
I had a religious nutter appear on my Twitter feed and his tweet stated “Time is running out for the world. Jesus is coming soon. Today is the day of…
The Queensland Liberal-National Party (LNP) had its annual convention over the last few days and one of the motions passed urged a future LNP state government to establish a science…
Probably just over a decade ago, my organisation bought me a thumb drive, which had a capacity of 100 Megabytes (Mb). I used it to transfer large files between work…
The Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Ken Wyatt delivered a speech at the National Press Club explaining that there would be a referendum on constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians. He stated…
I don’t tend to read anything written by ignoramuses, except when dealing with people like creationists and climate change deniers. I read occasional creationist drivel because I like to use…
There are stories coming from several sources in different parts of the nation of retirees turning up at Centrelink offices or ringing them up to ask when they will be…
Section 116 of the Australian Constitution states: “The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise…
