Patrick Byrne
Patrick J Byrne is President of the National Civic Council. He has a BA from the University of Queensland majoring in economics. He later earned a BTheol and gained a Diploma in Teaching. After several years as a secondary school teacher in Brisbane, in the early 1980s he moved to Melbourne to become a journalist with the NCC’s News Weekly.
Articles by Patrick Byrne:
16 February 2023
3.2 MINS
If the Federal Government implements legal changes recommended by the Australian Law Reform Commission, religious schools will soon face the same gender identity and sexual orientation policies as state schools. In 2013, the federal Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) made a person’s self-identified gender identity and [...]
15 December 2022
3 MINS
Christmas is a time of respite from a turbulent world increasingly alienated from the transcendental by modern ideologies, consumerism and our electronic media’s ever-present distractions. It offers our own families the repose and joys of the Holy Family. In Bethlehem, the Holy Family was visited [...]
9 December 2022
3 MINS
Despite an overall swing against Victoria’s incumbent ALP, Daniel Andrews was comfortably returned to government, while the Liberals were routed. Before the election, the ALP held 55 seats (a majority of 14) and the Coalition 27, Greens three, and two were held by independents. Although [...]
22 November 2022
3 MINS
Several countries are abandoning unconditional support for the social and medical transitioning of children, yet, in Australia these huge policy changes go unreported by the publicly funded ABC and SBS. Last February, an interim report by Dr Hilary Cass, former president of Britain’s Royal College [...]
25 October 2022
6 MINS
Pushing Andrew Thorburn out of his job as chief executive of Essendon Football Club ignored/violated the AFL’s own code of conduct, and probably Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act, sparking a nation-wide debate on religious freedom. Andrew Thorburn was recruited for his top managerial experience in the [...]
8 October 2022
5.3 MINS
Andrew Thorburn, who was recently appointed CEO of the Essendon Football Club, has been pushed out of his job on account of the views and moral beliefs of the church he belongs to and on whose board of management he sits. Those views, which even [...]
