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%;…
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 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…
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…
Unless you live under a rock and never read the newspapers, watch television, listen to the radio or are on social media, you will have heard of the mess former…
The Victorian assisted dying legislation has now come into force, and is one of the most conservative pieces of legislation of its kind in the world. This legislation has a…
A taxonomist is a person who studies organisms in part to work out their relationships and the classificatory framework (i.e. their taxonomy) which explains those relationships. Creationists have little understanding…