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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 [...]

The Australian government censors the idea that men can't breastfeed. Earlier this week I reported on a series of document releases revealing that the Australian Government had colluded with Big Tech platforms to censor online speech related to Covid. Several days later, the Australian edition of the Twitter [...]

The Australian Government secretly surveilled and sought censorship of online Covid-related speech throughout the pandemic in partnership with Big Tech platforms, newly released documents show. My new article for Umbrella News synthesises last week’s news drops which included Senator Alex Antic’s FOI release pertaining to the Department [...]

31 Royal Air Force (RAF) candidates will receive compensation after being discriminated against on the basis of skin colour. The melanin-before-merit row was apparently triggered by RAF Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston’s Woke, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) quotas. An email leaked to the public [...]

The censorship industrial complex suppressed speech on Covid-19. A Freedom of Information request by Senator Alex Antic has revealed that the Australian Department of Home Affairs made over 4,000 requests to digital platforms to take down content related to Covid. The FOI documents ((FA 22/12/00629: [...]

Palliative care hospice Clare Holland House is also at risk, with ACT Government claiming staff want to "take palliative care into the future." Legislation to enable the compulsory acquisition of Calvary Public Hospital by the ACT Government has passed the territory’s Legislative Assembly after a [...]