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The ABC has breathlessly reported that trans activists and Greens MPs don’t like Catholic doctrine. Journalists at the national broadcaster appear shocked that Catholics have not yet updated their 2000-year-old doctrine to better reflect the ABC Queer Instagram account.

Pressure is mounting on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, with parents and teachers declaring his anticipated changes to religious discrimination laws an attack on faith-based schools.

The judge who led the Albanese Government’s review of discrimination in religious schools has called for increased legal protection for faith-based schools. Justice Rothman pointed out that it was not allowed to advise the Government on the drafting of a possible religious discrimination act.

Non-government educational alternatives are experiencing enormous growth, and a new study finds that private schools save taxpayers billions of dollars.

Recommendations by the Australian Law Reform Commission on Religious Discrimination (ALRC) represent an egregious attack on people of faith in our country and must be rejected.

Our political leaders must reject the report not only because of the damage it would do to faith-based schools, but also because of the signal it sends about people of faith and their activities not being welcome in our community.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced yesterday that he would not introduce his contentious Religious Discrimination Bill without bipartisan support.

The proposed Anti-Discrimination Bill 2024 will make some radical changes to Queensland law, and of interest here is that it will seriously impact religious freedom in that State.

Christianity and its teachings would be made subordinate to those of the State. And how will they do it? By using discrimination to stop what they claim is discrimination.

Religious freedom in NSW is protected in very limited ways at the moment, but one of those ways is by “balancing clauses” included as part of the discrimination law. The amendments to s56, if enacted, would radically undermine the freedom of religious groups to operate in accordance with their faith.

A report commissioned by the Albanese Government recommends stripping religious schools of their tax deductibility status while making that same status available to activist LBGTQ groups.

The NSW Government is reviewing anti-discrimination law, proposing to update it according to "contemporary community standards". But what are these, how are they assessed, and by whom? The assumptions in this review are suspect, and they could have dire consequences for Christians, churches and Christian schools.

... and decides it's because of 'aspirational' immigrants. The Sydney Telegraph promised to tell us “why Aussie private school attendance is soaring”. The paper reported that 35.5 per cent of Australian children now attend private schools. That figure, according to an ABC report, has doubled [...]

First, it was the takeover of the Calvary Hospital in the ACT. Now it is the planned removal of payroll tax exemptions for many independent schools in Victoria. These actions by state and territory Labor governments denote a marked hostility towards the not-for-profit activities of [...]

An Australian senator is demanding answers about the Australian Capital Territory’s confiscation of a Christian hospital. The Queensland Coalition senator has tabled a bill asking how, and why, Calvary Hospital was forced to surrender its Christian ethos and ownership to the Labor/Green cabal by the [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Parents are increasingly choosing private over public education. Governments should respect that choice instead of undermining religious freedom and parental rights. For quite some time, I have been concerned about the attack upon private schools, and in particular, those who are faith-based. With almost boring [...]

Alongside pandemic cronyism’s cost-of-living pressures, the battle for religious freedom is a vital political battleground. As a long-cherished key component of freedoms, protected under Christ-centred classical liberalism, freedom of religion is the proverbial canary in the coal mine. Learn from the history of Eastern Europe [...]

The question hit me with fresh force as I read it: ‘What gender is your child?’ I had read and answered similar questions before, at least about my gender. But this question from my son’s local soccer club about his gender gave the following options: [...]