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Banned, censored, and branded a “political extremist”, US comedian Shayne Smith is turning his surreal clash with Australia’s bureaucracy into a new stand-up special: "How to Get Banned from Australia".

Former breastfeeding counsellor Jasmine Sussex faces a court challenge for stating men cannot breastfeed. She vows to defend biological reality and child safeguarding in a landmark case.

Australia lacks, at a national level, entrenched protections of freedom of speech. Our role as elected representatives should be to provide and sustain that right.

Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner Anna Cody, who is paid over $400,000 per year to protect women’s rights, stands accused of secretly targeting a UN investigator who insists international law defines women by biological sex.

Independent MLC Sarah Game has introduced a bill into the South Australian Parliament to protect viable unborn children after 23 weeks’ gestation from abortion. Her bill, which she describes as an action to confront "a tragedy", will be voted on Wednesday, 12 November.

A BBC documentary accusing Trump of election interference and misinformation prompted the resignations, after it was revealed the taxpayer-funded broadcaster was guilty of the same.

In a surprise move, Europe’s Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) has officially acknowledged the existence of anti-Christian bigotry. Albeit somewhat limpwristedly.

After nearly nine years of anguish and unanswered questions, the Malaysian High Court has delivered a historic verdict in the case of Pastor Raymond Koh — a Christian leader who was abducted in broad daylight in 2017 and has never been seen since.

When Muslims kill Muslims in Sudan, it’s genocide. But when Muslims kill Christians in Nigeria — 7,000 this year at the rate of 35 murders a day — it’s apparently “complex”.

Australia is experiencing a significant shift in its view of morality. The “gay conversion therapy” laws now Australia-wide are the exemplar of this. The prevailing narrative grounded in mechanistic thinking has abandoned God and the ethical code embodied in a Christian worldview.

Income splitting is a type of family tax policy that treats the family, rather than the individual, as the basis of taxation. It allows couples to pool and then split their incomes for tax purposes, thus reducing the tax paid on the highest earning partner.

America’s experiment in liberty was possible only because of a Christian moral imagination that valued virtue over license and truth over power. But as that moral foundation weakens, the nation risks forgetting what made it both free and good.

Faith leaders and academics have warned that a Victorian inquiry into “cults” risks undermining religious freedom, blurring lines between coercion and devotion, and potentially targeting mainstream faith communities.

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen faces her third trial, now in Finland's Supreme Court, for quoting the Bible on marriage, highlighting global concerns over free speech and religious liberty.

While for the past twelve months, much of the West has been objecting to the so-called ‘genocide’ occurring in Gaza, something more sinister has been happening in Nigeria. Since 2009, tens of thousands of Christians have been killed by Islamic terrorists.

New laws lower the threshold for hate speech to such an extent that a person could be criminalised for what authorities decide their words "might" lead to. This is a bad law. It is anti-free speech and anti-Australian.

Today’s North Korean youth live in a three-pronged tug-of-war between competing influences: their government’s strict control, the allure of forbidden pop culture, and the search for meaning through superstition or hidden faith.

Christians across the political spectrum may wonder why God allows particular leaders or governments to rise or fall. Yet history reminds us that all tyrannies and injustices eventually end. Prayer is part of this process.

Last Thursday, the Victorian Parliament passed the Statewide Treaty Bill, which will bring about everything a clear majority of Victorians voted against more than two years ago. Premier Allan has given her middle finger to every Victorian who voted No and to the democratic process in general.

18-year-old Bola Adel Naguib was forcibly disappeared the week before last on suspicion of preaching Christianity and insulting Islam. Christian families in Egypt are grieving. They’re dealing with a great deal of emotional distress and unfathomable loss at the hands of a totalitarian state.