Ding Dong, the Queen is dead! It was these very words that blazed through my common room as my fellow classmates chuckled at the array of Tik Tok memes that had engulfed every meta platform within hours of the Queen’s death. Sifting through the multitude of sepia images of Her Majesty, some felt it necessary to hang up commemorative pictures of the Queen around the … Continue reading Keeping up with the Windsors
The Voice referendum is perhaps the most significant climacteric of the twenty-first century for the direction – and credibility – of the incomplete fight to close the gap. Without a specific model from the Albanese government, we risk turning our backs on Indigenous Australians by dooming the referendum to fail, or voting into existence a political or constitutional catastrophe. Australia continues to be a nation … Continue reading The Voice to Parliament: Before Deciding, We Need a Specific Model
A woman named Terry appeared on the TV show ‘Hoarders’ about a decade ago. The idea of the show is to find people who compulsively stockpile and store all of their possessions. But what they found with Terry was a truly extreme case. Hundreds of boxes of clothes. Thousands of dusty, worthless pieces of memorabilia. And in the fridge, plugged into her storage unit, the … Continue reading The Pleasure Problem – Issues with our Psyche
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Since the dawn of time, societies have erected statues to those whom they considered worthy of veneration and remembrance. In the western world, universities have been a long-standing canvas for the existence and upkeep of statues and monoliths dedicated to great thinkers and figures of history. Many would be surprised to learn that medieval centres of education held busts of the likes of Socrates long … Continue reading Statues on Campus: Preserving our History
Earlier last week the Australian Republic Movement (ARM) unveiled their latest proposal for how Australia would select its head of state if ever it voted to be a Republic. However, this new model has been met with criticism from both ends of the political spectrum, most notably devout Republican and former Prime Minister Paul Keating. The new model proposed would draw presidential candidates from a … Continue reading So, why does the ARM just keep flopping?
So, why conservatism? A guiding principle of liberalism is individual rights. At its core, liberalism (and conservatism by extension) speaks to the idea that a person’s individual rights should not be compromised by the ideals of the state. This was the very principle in which liberal projects such as the United States were built on. It is important to recognise that the rights of indigenous … Continue reading The Conservative Case for Constitutional Recognition
During the 1980s, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew famously predicted that without economic reform, Australia was at risk of becoming the “white trash of Asia.” Australia stood on the precipice of an economic abyss, with the world moving to liberalise their economies; all eyes were on us. Despite the vocal debates and the heresy entailed in making large scale reforms, our political leaders of … Continue reading The World Has Moved, What Are We Waiting For?
Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) is a difficult and profoundly emotional topic. In the same manner as abortion – if not more so – all must consider its implications, as it speaks to an unavoidable facet of the human condition: death. Death is not an easy word to discuss, and certainly not in the context of family or friends; humans are predisposed to hate suffering and … Continue reading The Line We Shouldn’t Cross: Voluntary Assisted Dying
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