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This is the Bramble Cay melomys (Melomys rubicola), aka Bramble Cay mosaic-tailed rat. On earth, there are over 2,200 rodent species compr...

Terrorism: the threat or use of violence intended to provoke fear and targeting civilians for political, religious or ideological reasons. ...

I will not condemn extremists. I condemn violence. And these two get conflated so often it is worth asking ourselves why, whose interests ...

Each Australian election, a coalition of Christian groups promote a resource called the "Christian Values Checklist" from the Aus...

God from whom we have all received life,     Thank you for mothers: for the women who gave each of us birth, and for the women who preceded...

Governments regulate their borders. "Control" of borders is like saying police should have "control" of the streets. Yes...

"[...] In order to respond adequately, we may need to mourn these losses. Insufficient mourning keeps us numb or stuck in anger at t...

This is a thought-provoking article on economic growth, ecological/climatic decoupling and distributive justice. The main claims that it ma...

I find it incredibly frustrating and baffling that the IPCC and other major climate science bodies like NASA use a variety of unreconciled b...

It is easy (and pretty apt) to get depressed about the climate situation. As records keep tumbling and feedbacks kick in and polluters con...

Disclaimer: I am neither a sacramentologist, nor the son of a sacramentologist. Take the following with a grain of salt. For lightly salte...

Honduran indigenous and environmental organizer Berta Cáceres, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, has been assassinated in her ho...

They say that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Intentions matter for personal ethics, less so for social ethics. When we...

“People may, indeed, suffer from anxiety about climate change but not know it. They will have a vague unease about what is happening arou...

There is a dispute or tension at the heart of most attempts at addressing injustice: should we seek achievable incremental change to make ...

On August 16, 1975 Prime Minister Gough Whitlam gave the following speech when handing over freehold title of the Gurindji lands to Vincen...

Near the end of last year, a famous Australian put his religious and scientific convictions into action and was arrrested at the #LeardBl...

"Stop the boats!" And we have. Apparently. Except what we have done is stop (most of) the boats from arriving . Stopped the ...

Sermon preached at St Matthew's Anglican, West Pennant Hills On 1st March 2015, St Matt's held a joint service for all congregat...

"Why do you see the speck in your neighbour’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbour, ...