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There has been major pushback from the Catholic community over the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to not only invite a blasphemous group of “nuns” to the baseball team’s annual “Pride Night”, but also to honour them with the Community Hero Award. On Friday, June 16, [...]

Former prime minister John Howard has come out swinging in defense of Canberra’s Calvary Hospital, saying the ACT Government’s forced acquisition is a “blatant assault” on the principle of private ownership. “Sometimes people say to me ‘Why do you keep banging on about the fundamental [...]

Following the Nation First analysis on the ‘Voice’ being a Trojan Horse for Marxism, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Fair Australia have released an advertisement exposing one of the Communist architects of the ‘Indigenous Voice to Parliament’. The advertisement highlights the views of Thomas Mayo, [...]

The takeover of the Calvary Catholic Hospital Canberra by the Labor-Greens Government in the ACT should send a shudder through every religious and privately run health and educational institution in the country. The snatch-and-grab operation by the ACT Government, which was rammed through the ACT [...]

Hopes of a Senate inquiry into the ACT Government’s compulsory acquisition of Calvary Hospital were “scuttled” by ACT independent Senator David Pocock on 15 June after he declined to support a motion by Coalition senators Michaelia Cash and Matt Canavan. Fr Tony Percy, who leads [...]

ALP’s proposed religious freedom policy must include keeping exemptions for faith-based schools. A new Australian Labor Party draft platform has been released with a section significantly improving the party’s support for religious freedom. The Party is taking submissions from ALP members on the draft platform, [...]

By Dr Julie Sladden and Julian Gillespie In 1928, scientist Alexander Fleming returned to his laboratory after a 2-week holiday. A petri dish of bacteria accidentally left on the lab bench, somehow became cross-contaminated with Penicillium notatum mould. Fleming noticed the mould inhibited the growth [...]

Cape Byron Lighthouse stands proudly on Australia’s most easterly point, sending a whopping two million candelas of light 50 kilometres out to sea each night. It is our brightest lighthouse and arguably Australia’s most famous. As it is the first lighthouse to welcome the dawn [...]

The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, has recently expressed deep concern with an “escalation of intimidation and threats” against women and girls on matters of sex, gender, and gender identity. It comes as debate rages in Australia over [...]

The Federal Court of Australia recently ruled that the Australian government could not terminate the Russian embassy’s lease in Yarralumla, despite the National Capital Authority’s reasoning that the embassy had occupied the site for too long without developing it. The Guardian noted that there were [...]

with John Flanagan Of all the many things that the left-wing Albanese Labor Government did not bother to tell the Australian public prior to last year’s election was that they intended to take Australia’s utterly dysfunctional family law system back to the dark ages, when [...]

Fr Tony Percy, head of the Catholic campaign to save the hospital, has asked supporters to “accept the decision” and write to parliamentarians to voice their protest. The head of the Catholic campaign to save Calvary Hospital has asked supporters to “accept the decision” of [...]

Religious freedom, a fundamental human right, encompasses the belief in and worship of a higher power without constraint or inhibition. While countries like the United States and Canada have explicit protections for religious freedom, Australia's approach has been more nuanced, primarily relying on constitutional provisions [...]

The current debate regarding the ability of faith-based schools to preference staff who share a common faith appears to ignore a crucial principle of international human rights law that aims for a principled balancing of conflicting rights. World War II was the deadliest military conflict [...]

Why has the Durham report been ignored, sneered at, and dismissed?

Lessons for the Liberal Party from the Moira Deeming saga. On most days that the Australian Parliament sits, there is one – sometimes two or three – rallies on the lawns in front of the building. Most parliamentarians are unaware of these events, unless they [...]

Take a Stand for Our Religious Freedom It's a grave time for religious freedom in Australia. As you may have already heard, in the Australian Capital Territory, the Labor-Greens Coalition has passed legislation to forcibly acquire Calvary Hospital on July 3. Calvary Hospital is [...]

Novice politician Moira Deeming didn’t agree and the men expelled her from her own party. A once-great Australian political party has raised the white flag to wokeness. “Apparently, if you think that men and women are not fully interchangeable, that marriage is not open to [...]

The ACT Government continues to come under fire over its proposed takeover of Calvary Hospital in Bruce, this time for its “appalling” lack of proper process and failure to properly acknowledge the religious dimension of the crisis. ANU Professor: The Takeover Process is “Appalling” Andrew [...]

The Prime Minister must intervene to stop the ACT government’s takeover of a Catholic hospital and assure Christians that their institutions are safe. The ACT government’s unprecedented decision to take over Calvary Public Hospital sets a dangerous precedent that should worry all Christian organisations. If [...]