In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.
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Wednesday 6 Dec 2017
Should pornography be considered an expression of hate speech rather than free speech?
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Wednesday 29 Nov 2017
What has come to be known as the ‘Weinstein effect’ may well prove the defining moment of 2017. But the fact that it took allegations of this severity to achieve such a cultural groundswell says something about our broader culture of complicity.
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Wednesday 22 Nov 2017
It is becoming increasingly difficult for public hospitals to balance the health and wellbeing of the patient with the stark reality of limited public funds.
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Wednesday 15 Nov 2017
Has the same-sex marriage debate made the disagreement between both sides more intractable than it was before?
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Wednesday 8 Nov 2017
The Federal Government’s response to asylum seekers on Manus Island and to the claims of the First Nations are underwritten by contradictory political logics, but is there a deeper malaise that drives both?
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Wednesday 1 Nov 2017
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made the rather startling move of conferring citizenship onto a robot named Sophia. Is our faith in artificial intelligence misplaced?
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Wednesday 25 Oct 2017
Does the moral claim for recognition on the part of trans women challenge what it now means to be a ‘woman’? Does it redefine our understanding of the relationship between gender and biology?
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Wednesday 18 Oct 2017
Is ‘Whiteness’ best understood as a political-historical category, or is there a dimension to the experience of being ‘White’ that can only be registered in moral terms?
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Wednesday 11 Oct 2017
Can Hollywood films really provide occasions for genuine moral reflection and philosophical insight?
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Wednesday 4 Oct 2017
Las Vegas joins a long and growing list of American cities to have been ravaged by mass gun violence. There is, it seems, a national mythos that puts gun possession beyond the reach of critical scrutiny for many Americans.
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Wednesday 27 Sep 2017
Why should something so seemingly trivial, whose consequences are fleeting if not nugatory, command the passions the way sporting contests do?
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Wednesday 20 Sep 2017
In a time of gross unaffordability, is the presumption of home ownership a thing of the past?
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Wednesday 13 Sep 2017
The violence in Myanmar is an urgent reminder of problem of political idol-worship, a warning of the inherent dangers of democratic reform, and a spur to reflect on what is needed to effect thoroughgoing political change.
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Wednesday 6 Sep 2017
Is the only time we can discuss the truly ‘big issues’ when no one is paying attention?
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