Because News Weekly goes to press just before the election, comment on the results will have to wait. Instead, this editorial raises what was considered a peripheral election issue but, in reality, is an issue near the heart of the struggle over Australia’s long cherished freedom of belief and freedom of speech. Laws giving protected attribute status to a person’s self-defined gender identity…

This analysis looks at both the result and how the outcome marks the tipping point of Australia into a secularist state. As I write, Labor is likely to govern in its own right, but the remaining outcome is not entirely clear. The composition of the Senate may not be known for some weeks. Labor may have won, but the major parties had ridiculously…

The major parties go to supreme efforts to narrow down policy differences between them, with a few notable exceptions, during election campaigns. As a result, many of the biggest issues facing Australia tend to get ignored as they work to capture the interests of the disinterested middle. If the United States political system takes notice of the extreme edges of the political spectrum,…

We are used to the idea of heroes having secret identities and alter egos. Through stories, we are familiar with the logic. Heroes are fighting against sophisticated adversaries and secrecy gives them an edge by confusing the villains, while also protecting themselves and their loved ones from retribution. However, the stakes involved in having more than one life are high. Deep-cover spies and…