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Religious Discrimination Bill
Faith-Based Schools Can’t Maintain Ethos Under New Religious Discrimination Bill: Opposition
'What they’re saying to me is ‘Michaelia, we just want to educate; under Mark Dreyfus and Anthony Albanese, we’re going to wind up litigating.''
March 17, 2024
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Nina Nguyen
Australian PM Keen to Pass New Religious Discrimination Protections
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has signalled he would like to see the Religious Discrimination Bill legislated during ...
July 26, 2022
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Victoria Kelly-Clark
Next Parliament Urged to Protect Religious Freedom Amid Waning Support for Conservative Values
Australia’s faith-based groups have called on the next Parliament to provide greater protection for people of faith and ...
April 11, 2022
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Nina Nguyen
‘Short Term Pain’: Christian Lobby to Pressure Moderate Liberal Party MPs on Religious Rights
Australia's largest Christian lobby group is mobilising to put pressure on centre-right Liberal MPs who they say are ...
April 7, 2022
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Nina Nguyen
Book Review: An Assessment of the Australian Coalition Government
Commentary In a resort on the Sunshine Coast, I recently saw a poster with the caption, “How beautiful ...
March 27, 2022
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Gabriël Moens
Australia Needs a Restoration of Freedoms, Not a Religious Discrimination Act
Commentary Despite a commitment during the 2019 election campaign by the Morrison government to legislate for religious freedom, ...
February 24, 2022
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Augusto Zimmermann
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Gabriël Moens
Australia’s Religious Freedom Bill Doomed From the Start
Commentary The promise to legislate for religious freedom protections was considered a key commitment of the Coalition during ...
February 18, 2022
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Rocco Loiacono
10 Years Jail Time For Suppression Of LGBITQ+
The Victorian state government in Australia has made suppression of an LGBITQ+ individual a jailable offence in the ...
February 17, 2022
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Marina Zhang
Religious Bill Delayed Indefinitely Amid Disagreements on Gay and Trans Student Protections
Chances of the religious discrimination bill becoming law are fading after the government shelved the bill indefinitely, potentially leaving ...
February 10, 2022
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Nina Nguyen
Labor to Back Coalition’s Religious Bill but Push for Amendments
Labor will support the government's proposed religious discrimination bill but will move a number of amendments to prevent ...
February 9, 2022
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Nina Nguyen
Vic Rapid Antigen Testing Expanded to 3 to 5 Year Olds
The Victorian Labor Government has expanded the twice-weekly rapid antigen testing to children aged 3 to 5 at ...
February 8, 2022
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Marina Zhang
Balancing Rights and Freedom, Secular and Traditional Values
Commentary Declared a fundamental human right in international treaties to which Australia is a signatory, the exercise of ...
February 6, 2022
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Peter Kurti
Australian Christian School Revokes Statement on Gender, Sexuality Amid Heightened Pressure
An Australian Christian school has withdrawn its contract containing a declaration of faith on gender and sexuality amid ...
February 2, 2022
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Nina Nguyen
Australian Religious Bill Sparks More Debate
The Australian Christian Lobby has stated that they will withdraw their support for the Religious Discrimination Bill if ...
January 20, 2022
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Marina Zhang
Unions Criticize Religious Bill’s ‘Statement of Belief’ For Increasing Stress and Discrimination to Workforce
A representative of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has attacked the government over its timing of ...
January 16, 2022
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Marina Zhang
‘Religious Organisation Should Hire to Ethos’ Argues Archbishop
In the second Religious Discrimination Bill meeting on Jan. 13, Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli stated that he would ...
January 13, 2022
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Marina Zhang
Fear That Protecting Religious Freedom Would Lead to Abuse Is ‘Wrong’: Expert
An expert on religion has rejected claims that the Australian government's religious discrimination bill would lead to a ...
January 3, 2022
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Nina Nguyen
Vocal Minority Should Not Spell the End of Enshrining Religious Freedom: Expert
Religious freedom is worth protecting even when there is a “loud segment of society” who are against any ...
December 1, 2021
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Nina Nguyen
Religious Discrimination Bill: A Cure Worse Than the Disease for Australians of Faith
Commentary The danger of the Australian government’s new religious discrimination bill is that in adding more laws on ...
December 1, 2021
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Morgan Begg
Secularism May Be the New Religion in Australia
Commentary In the last sitting weeks of the Australian Parliament, the political landscape focuses on the Religious Discrimination ...
November 29, 2021
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Gabriël Moens
Religious Believers in Australia Get Protections, Not Freedom
Commentary Time appeared to be running out for the Australian government to deliver on its 2019 election pledge ...
November 23, 2021
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Peter Kurti
Australia’s Attorney-General Set to Introduce Religious Discrimination Bill into Federal Parliament
Federal Attorney-General Michaelia Cash is set to introduce the Morrison government’s Religious Discrimination Bill that will see religious ...
November 22, 2021
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Henry Jom
Australian Faith Based Schools To Have Discretionary Hiring Protections Under Religious Discrimination Bill
The revamped religious discrimination bill will allow schools to hire people on the basis of faith but will ...
November 17, 2021
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Nina Nguyen
Religious Discrimination Law Edge Closer Amidst Mounting Tensions Over ‘Folau Clause’
The Morrison government is expected to bring its religious discrimination laws to parliament as early as next week, ...
November 16, 2021
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Nina Nguyen
Why Religious Freedom Laws Are Needed in Australia Now More Than Ever
Commentary Cowed by public health reprimands and driven back into lockdown for fear of contagion, many Australians these ...
July 1, 2021
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Peter Kurti
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