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Summer and snakes go together in Australia, as I well know. When I was a boy my parents used to take my brothers and me camping during the Christmas holidays to a place called Meelup, south of [...]

When it dived, the dabchick, I ran towards the swamp, wanting to get closer to see better before the bird surfaced and saw me— I sprinted towards the swamp, my eyes on the black hole in the [...]

The latest move to try to introduce the abortion drug RU486 into Australia comes when the dangers of RU486 to women’s lives and health are becoming even clearer than in 1996 when the Federal [...]

Evolution does not enjoy an advantage over creation so far as science is concerned. It is true that science cannot verify the major premises of creationism, but nor can it verify the major [...]

Why has fatherhood fallen into such low esteem? It’s almost fashionable to see fathers as buffoons. Take The Simpsons or Malcolm in the Middle or any other sitcom. Is this a passing fad, or [...]