A new survey shows Australian women have little trust in religious institutions, particularly when it comes to the protection of children.
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In 2024, we’re seeing a pragmatic, determined, managerial prime minister trying to reinforce the anchors of the ship of state ahead of the May budget.
The federal government has just released a long-awaited report about anti-discrimination laws and religious schools in Australia.
Religious discrimination laws have been highly controversial in Australia in recent years. Here’s where they started, and where we are now.
The prime minister has flagged he has draft legislation on religious freedom waiting in the wings, but unless Peter Dutton agrees to it, it may never see the light of day.
Not only did the Queensland law prohibit the freedom of religion of a small vulnerable minority, it did so deliberately.
Some conservative Christians have taken to claiming ‘victim’ status in the modern world, but we should be wary of such claims.
Christianity is the second-largest religion in Kazakhstan, with 26% of the population practicing the faith. But many Christians, especially in the smaller denominations, have experienced persecution.
Recent incidents have been read as a campaign against Christians, but other religious groups feel they are targets too.
Protests over shortages forced the ouster of Sri Lanka’s president, but the crisis has deep-set roots in ethnonationalism, which has encouraged corruption, argues an expert on the country’s politics.
It’s not the first time Australian schools have been given a choice of a religious school chaplain or a secular welfare officer, and for some schools the decision can be divisive.
Schools currently rely on third-party providers that require all those who apply to do student counselling and community work as school chaplains to have a committed Christian faith.
The country has a long history of ethnic and religious conflict, but the worst economic crisis in decades has brought protesters together.
The backbench Liberal revolt that pushed a protection for transgender kids through the House of Representatives, and thereby inadvertently doomed Scott Morrison’s religious discrimination legislation, has bitten deeply with the PM and senior ministers.
This week, we finally see religious discrimination debated on the floor of federal parliament. But what do voters actually think about the issues behind the bill?
Religious discrimination is set to be debated in parliament this week - more than three years after Prime Minister Scott Morrison promised a bill.
Even now, 200 years on from the Spanish Inquisition, the locations affected appear to be poorer, less educated, and less trusting.
The Coalition has provided details of the third draft of its controversial bill.
What is at stake with the new bill very much depends on how discrimination is conceptualised and who is doing the claiming.
With the Taliban again in power in Afghanistan, minorities like the Hazara may have the most to lose.
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