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(Editor’s Note: This Religious Freedom and Education Forum did not include Lyle Shelton in Group A standing as an independent on behalf of Family First in the Upper House for the 2023 NSW State Election. You may feel that you would like to add him [...]

By Mark Sneddon The Australian Law Reform Commission recommends abolishing balancing provisions that protect religious institutions in anti-discrimination laws. This article is Part 1 of 2. I will start with an overview of the three areas of law I want to talk about and will [...]

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 [...]

Just how many things that we warned about have now come to pass? We told you so. We told you so. We told you so. There, I said it. Three times. I know it is not good form to rub it in when you tried [...]

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 [...]

Just before Christmas, a significant religious discrimination decision was handed down in the Western Australian State Administrative Tribunal. In HORDYK and WANSLEA FAMILY SERVICES INC [2022] WASAT 117 (23 December 2022), the Tribunal held that Mr and Mrs Hordyk had been indirectly discriminated against on [...]

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: [...]

A Nicaraguan bishop falsely accused of “spreading fake news” has chosen life in prison over exile in the United States. Rolando Álvarez, a vocal opponent of Nicaragua’s socialist President Daniel Ortego, was sentenced on Friday to 26 years in gaol, after being “tried” for “treason”. [...]

Religious schools are gearing up for a fight with the Palaszczuk government over proposed reforms that will make it harder for them to sack LGBTQ+ teachers. Controversial law changes, recommended by the state’s Human Rights Commission, would prevent church-run schools from discriminating against employees on [...]

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 [...]

Inspirational Christian speaker, mentor and surfing champion Bethany Hamilton has made international headlines for having the audacity to speak out against the outrageous new transgender policy of the World Surfing League. Bethany has declared she “won’t be competing in or supporting the World Surfing League [...]

An in-depth analysis of Australian politics during the last few decades of societal upheaval and economic woes. What values and principles guide our major parties? In 1999, Australia conducted its largest taxpayer-funded focus group -- the referendum on a republic. Voting in the referendum was [...]

Conversion therapy lawfare claims its first victim with Maltese police criminally charging a former homosexual under Malta’s 2016 “conversion therapy” laws. Summoned by police in June 2022, Matthew Grech is accused of ‘advertising conversion practices, and breaking article 3, chapter 567 of Maltese laws’ after [...]

Journalist Greg Sheridan's magnum opus on Christianity is a comprehensive and incisive look at the world's largest and arguably most influential religion, from Biblical times to modern-day Australia. Christians: The Urgent Case for Jesus in Our World, by Greg Sheridan (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2021). [...]

‘Is that lady a Christian?’ asks my son. We’re sitting at Carols in the Domain, listening to Robyn Hobbs, the founder of the Sydney Carols in the Domain. She’s being interviewed by the on-stage host, talking about the importance of hope, joy and love. ‘It [...]

Today justice is not always found, but full justice IS coming. A million times a day there are acts of injustice taking place, be they greater or lesser acts. Most people have an innate dislike of injustice, and a strong desire for justice. Here I [...]

It seems I have upset Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. The Liberal Party leader wrote a scathing letter, published in The Spectator, about an article I wrote quoting his comments concerning sacked Essendon CEO Andrew Thorburn. Here is Mr Dutton’s letter to The Spectator: I would [...]

Asia Bibi, now living in Canada after being acquitted of a wrongful blasphemy charge in 2019, is speaking out against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Calling them a “great injustice,” the ex-pat Pakistani Christian pointed out the lack of proof and “long sentences” imposed on those accused. [...]

Although homosexual marriage is already legal in the United States, the Senate this week enshrined it in legislation when it voted to pass the Respect for Marriage Act. Consequently, the Defence of Marriage Act, signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996, has been [...]

Freedom is being thrown away in the West while being fought for in Communist China. The contrast could not be greater: while sheepish and servile crowds are well on the road to serfdom, happily voting in dictators in Victoria, in China, the crowds are bravely [...]