On my impending visit to Brazil, on 23 May I will have the honour of speaking at the Uniandrade University (Campus Cidade Universitaria) on the topic of ‘Is Brazil a Federalist Country?’ My answer will be an emphatic NO. Brazil […]
PUBLIC STATEMENT BY DR AUGUSTO ZIMMERMANN TO THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SWAN TOWN PLANNING SCHEME – PROPOSED AMENDMENT N.176 TO CITY OF SWAN SCHEME NO.17 – PLACES OF WORSHIP This is a public statement by Dr Augusto Zimmermann […]
By Dr Augusto Zimmermann[1], Lorraine Finlay,[2] and Joshua Forrester[3] The protection of religious freedom has been a topic of considerable discussion and debate in Australia in recent years, particularly in the context of the campaign to legalise same-sex marriage. The […]
As per letter attached, the Australian Government has implicitly refused to provide urgent assistance to Ms Asia Bibi, in her desperate request for asylum. I am appalled but not surprised. After all, I have learned over the years to expect […]
While the Australian legal tradition cannot lay claim to the historical depth it has in America and England, it was still built on a similar solid Christian foundation. Christian ideology is infused in both the legal and governmental institutions and […]
Paper presented at the Annual Dinner of the Christian Lawyers Society Inc., Brisbane/Qld, October 19, 2018. It is a great honour to be invited by the President of the Christian Lawyers Society, Mr Nathan Rieck, to address this Annual […]
This article is a version of the paper presented by the author at “A World Without Christianity”, a colloquium held by the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies in Hobart, Tasmania, 29-30 June 2018. He wishes to thank his colleague, […]
Social Services Minister Dan Tehan has called for a Religious Discrimination Act to provide greater protections to “people of faith”.[1] Delivering the St Thomas More Lecture in Canberra last month, Mr Tehan contended that the “creeping encroachment from the state […]
Australian National University vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt announced the ANU is withdrawing from negotiations with a wealthy private donor, the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, over funding for a scholarship and teaching program in studies of Western Civilisation. By deciding to […]
The Bible sees government as an institution established by God (Genesis 9:6; Romans 13). Its primary goal according to scripture is to promote justice for its citizens—protecting the innocent from the aggressor and the lawless. Without security, every other function […]