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Mark Christensen

Mark is a social and political commentator, with a background in economics. He also has an abiding interest in philosophy and theology, and is trying to write a book on the nature of reality. He blogs here.

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David Brooks strives for the second mountain
Religion & Spirituality - 18/07/2019 - 6 comments
Devolving power to those closest
Political Philosophy - 11/06/2019 - 5 comments
Ben Shapiro's The Right Side of History: easy read, informative, wrong
Religion & Spirituality - 28/05/2019 - 5 comments
Ken Henry and the establishment
Society - 30/04/2019 - 4 comments
In search of a post-political masculinity
Religion & Spirituality - 21/02/2019 - 6 comments
Liberalism: a joke, literally
Political Philosophy - 15/06/2018 - 9 comments
Liberalism isn't woke enough
Political Philosophy - 15/03/2018 - 1 comment
Super Rugby snowflakes
Society - 1/03/2018 - 6 comments
Trump, Jesus and the Evangelicals
International - 22/02/2018 - 17 comments
Celebrate or else
Law & Liberties - 10/01/2018 - 21 comments
Sick and tired of the same-sex marriage debate? Here's why
Law & Liberties - 29/08/2017 - 21 comments
Is the West spiritually impoverished
Political Philosophy - 23/06/2017 - 20 comments
Leap of faith on the National Electricity Market required
Environment - 20/02/2017 - 18 comments
Pyne, Trump and Turnbull walk into a bar...
Domestic Politics - 7/04/2016 - 7 comments
Take government out of the electricity market
Economics - 22/01/2016 - 26 comments
Age of entitlement unhealthy
Economics - 8/07/2014 - 12 comments
Everything else
Political Philosophy - 27/12/2013 - 5 comments
Pretence and posturing all the rage
Society - 21/06/2013 - 52 comments
Dogmas change but habits remain
Political Philosophy - 31/05/2013 - 55 comments
Is gay marriage's promise illusory?
Law & Liberties - 23/05/2013 - 55 comments
Do this generation's female journalists lack talent?
Media - 13/05/2013 - 31 comments
Legalisation won't resolve the debate
Law & Liberties - 26/04/2013 - 68 comments
Reinstate the iconic Aussie on Australia Day
Society - 25/01/2013 - 8 comments
Charles Murray: I don’t do solutions very well
Political Philosophy - 19/11/2012 - 5 comments
Democratic deficit depends on your line of sight
Political Philosophy - 31/10/2012 - 8 comments
Sorting it out ourselves
Law & Liberties - 16/08/2012 - 6 comments
Why the U.S. will never recapture its greatness
International - 8/06/2012 - 9 comments
Same-sex advocates are being too rational
Law & Liberties - 23/05/2012 - 6 comments
42 a poor alternative to Jesus
April 2012 Feature - 24/04/2012 - 186 comments
Solved: the true nature of gender politics
Society - 23/04/2012 - 5 comments
Past perfect - public demands flawless execution
Society - 21/03/2012 - 10 comments
Breivik shows there is no solution to 9/11
Society - 7/09/2011 - 17 comments
Nanny state threatens nanny with naughty corner
Education - 15/04/2011 - 45 comments
Butt out
Health - 4/04/2011 - 49 comments
Knowledge and truth - it's a Catch-22
Religion & Spirituality - 30/08/2010 - 23 comments
The Royal Smoke Screen
Law & Liberties - 19/04/2010 - 7 comments
Promising to save us from ourselves
Law & Liberties - 8/04/2010 - 11 comments
Mining access at a crossroad
Economics - 1/10/2009
We can be adult everywhere but the workplace
Economics - 13/07/2009 - 20 comments
Competition reality a sly fiction
Law & Liberties - 9/06/2009 - 5 comments
Go Telstra, defender of free markets
Economics - 24/04/2009 - 4 comments
Glorious idealism and the free market vision
Economics - 23/03/2009 - 6 comments
WorkChoices and liberty
Domestic Politics - 20/12/2007 - 41 comments
Hamstrung by regulation
Economics - 3/09/2007 - 4 comments
Unity needed at the coalface
Economics - 3/05/2007 - 1 comment
Love and economic efficiency
Economics - 2/02/2007 - 6 comments
Beattie's why generation
Economics - 13/12/2006 - 4 comments
If you listen carefully even pop stars sing the blues
The Arts - 7/12/2006 - 5 comments
Competition policy dilemmas: time for a new direction
Economics - 28/09/2006 - 1 comment
A Pyrrhic victory
Law & Liberties - 4/09/2006 - 15 comments
Disconnected competition
Economics - 18/08/2006 - 6 comments
In a policy halfway house
Economics - 2/08/2006
Bligh's bounty
Domestic Politics - 8/06/2006 - 7 comments
Bad faith drives desire for more competition
Economics - 1/06/2006 - 3 comments
The church and the code
Religion & Spirituality - 18/05/2006 - 57 comments
The less-is-more IR policy
Law & Liberties - 10/04/2006 - 13 comments
How to scare and confound men
The Arts - 27/02/2006 - 58 comments
Grain of politics in regulation
Domestic Politics - 14/11/2005
Queensland energy reform requires choice
Economics - 11/10/2005 - 1 comment
The big questions - Aussie values, life and death
Political Philosophy - 15/09/2005 - 21 comments
Build it and we'll pay
Nation Building - 16/08/2005
Queensland's infrastructure squeeze
Nation Building - 13/05/2005
So what does it mean to be a man?
Society - 29/03/2005 - 122 comments
Telstra - egalitarianism of the past or a have-and-have-not scenario?
Domestic Politics - 11/03/2005
Carr goes via the backdoor on electricity privatisation
Economics - 23/02/2005
Connect, not disconnect, with the bush
Economics - 10/02/2005
Take time before judging God
Religion & Spirituality - 27/01/2005 - 106 comments
National Competition Policy: The miracle of the free market
Economics - 11/01/2005
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