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A major Australian religious freedom conference has highlighted growing tensions over conscience, faith-based education, speech, public safety and social cohesion.

The Federal Labor Government is proposing to expand assisted suicide via telehealth — a choice to die over a video call, without a doctor ever being in the room. That's not compassion. That's the state deciding your life isn't worth the cost of a face-to-face visit.

In Western societies, tradition and Christianity have been symbiotic and perhaps for that reason, both are being junked. The disconnect of law and law reform from tradition, Christianity and reason is very evident from current law reform movements.

I want to consider how Australia appears now to be untethering the law from the morality of traditional Christianity, and from reason, at a cyclonic pace in a comprehensive triumph of positivism over natural law.

Both the current production of Jesus Christ Superstar and the new How To Make Gravy movie are instructive about the changing place of Christianity in Australian society.