ESSAY: THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT HAS RELEASED ITS DRAFT RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION BILL. HOW WILL IT WORK?
Australian academics and scholars LIAM ELPHICK, AMY MAGUIRE and ANJA HILKEMEIJER, in an article first published on The Conversation, look at how Australia’s proposed new religious freedom legislation will work…
Australia unveils religious freedom bill, after rugby star sacked for ‘hell awaits homosexuals’ post
Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia on Thursday proposed legislation to protect people who express their religious faith outside of the workplace, a few months after Rugby Union international Israel Folau was sacked for posting on social media that hell awaited “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers”. Attorney-General Christian Porter said the proposal would allow Australians to express their religious beliefs […]
Religious freedom top of re-elected Australian Government’s agenda, says Attorney-General
Religious freedom will be at the top of the Australian Government’s agenda in the 46th Parliament, Attorney-General Christian Porter has told The West Australian newspaper. Speaking ahead of being sworn in as part of the new government on Wednesday, Porter said one of the first acts of the re-elected government would be putting a religious […]