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 […]
By Andrew S. Kulikovsky This paper was presented as part of a meeting of the Western Australian Jurist. The paper can be downloaded here, and the PowerPoint presentation can be downloaded here. The other topic covered by this author, “Christianity […]
Attorney-General George Brandis announced the plans of the federal government to undertake a review of Australia’s family law system. It is about time. However, Brandis has appointed Professor Helen Rhoades to be the Chair of this important review, arguing that […]
By Babette Francis Below is my submission on Multiculturalism which was rejected by the ‘Senate Select Committee on Protecting and Strengthening Multiculturalism’. The Committee rejected this Submission simply because it did not comply with the terms of reference which were […]
I was honoured to be cited by Dr Kevin Donnelly in a recent article published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. I wholeheartedly agree with him and I also believe that Australians gain absolutely nothing from the amorphous atmosphere of multiculturalism. […]
Rather than promote tolerance, religious vilification laws stress separateness. Confronted by cases where, say, one creed’s condemnation of another’s dogma is indicted as hate speech, our secular courts will be obliged to address matters entirely theological. This is absurd and […]
On the 13 February 2016 Justice Antonin Scalia peacefully passed away in his sleep. But the impending United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s confirmation battle for his successor will be anything but peaceful. After all, his successor will be […]
On December 23, 2015, the Sejm—the Polish lower House of Parliament—passed a Bill to amend the Polish Constitution that will control the functioning of the Constitutional Tribunal. On the following day the Polish Senate passed the Amendment, and President Andrzej […]