Why are politicians involved in border protection?
We have laws, law enforcement bodies, military defence resources, and humanitarian organisations sponsored by Government. Why don’t we just let them do their job without political meddling? If the public don’t agree, political parties can suggest change as part of an election platform and we can vote for it.
Is suffering undervalued in Australia given it’s capacity to change thinking and build character, in a person or a community?
As a first world country, Australians experience a high quality of life. Yet everybody suffers and hurts, and could our experience of suffering, through illness, abuse, loss, break-up, poverty, discrimination, fear etc be put into a different framework where it is recognised for what it can bring and enable, individually and on a bigger scale? The biggest national identities of white Australia seem to be based on and through hardship and suffering.
Why do we rabbit on and on about pollution but say and do nothing about ‘noise pollution’. If we can send people into space and bring them back again, how come we can’t manage to have silent lawn mowers and leaf blowers and electric drills and so on and so on ?
Cheryl Strayed: What gave you the strength and power to take those first steps onto the PCT?
Does ‘good taste’ really exist?
Could the legitimisation of the guilty pleasure mean the end of judgmental music criticism (good riddance!), or are new hierarchies of taste emerging?
Asked by:How deep is your love? And why is that a question that keeps popping up in music?
What is feminism? And if it is what you say it is, why on earth is it so divisive?
There is nothing more vile or polarising than an online conversation thread about feminism.
When I was a teenager I read something wonderful and it stayed with me, the author’s name however did not. The internet attributes this vacant place in my brain to Rebecca West.
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
Asked by:Is it more important to focus on the present (enjoying the moment), future (achieving goals) or past (learning from mistakes)?
Asked by:What does it take to change one’s opinion?
My politics, formed in late high school, which views the world through a feminist, social justice and environmentalist lens has barely changed since I was 17 years old. Having children has made my feminism a bit more nuanced, thoughtful and even gentle in some ways, but otherwise I am unchanged. What does it take to change your opinion? And is change only possible with generational change, like we have seen with the huge support for marriage equality?
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