We’re facing a debate as divisive as the Voice. Can we keep this one civil?
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LGBTQ

We’re facing a debate as divisive as the Voice. Can we keep this one civil?

Next year,the Albanese government will have to make good on its election promise to legislate a religious discrimination framework,an issue that pits LGBTQ rights against those of people of faith.

  • byLisa Visentin

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Protections for religious expression as Labor revises controversial misinformation laws
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Protections for religious expression as Labor revises controversial misinformation laws

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has flagged significant changes to proposed misinformation laws,delaying the introduction of a final bill to parliament until next year.

  • byLisa Visentin
Christian Lobby group boasts about delaying gay conversion ban laws
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LGBTQ

Christian Lobby group boasts about delaying gay conversion ban laws

Equality groups have become concerned about lack of action over a bill to ban gay conversion therapy in NSW.

  • byMichael McGowan
Church seeks exemption for religious belief in misinformation bill
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Church seeks exemption for religious belief in misinformation bill

Catholics say teaching on topics such as euthanasia and sexuality could be caught up in the government’s proposal to clamp down on misinformation online.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Muslim groups alarmed by push to ban flag used by Islamic State

Muslim groups alarmed by push to ban flag used by Islamic State

The Australian National Imams Council said prohibiting the flag was analogous to banning the Christian cross because it had been misused by the Ku Klux Klan.

  • byMatthew Knott
Gay and sexually active students can’t offer ‘Christian leadership’,says Presbyterian church

Gay and sexually active students can’t offer ‘Christian leadership’,says Presbyterian church

Scotch College says it is moving with the times but needs to consider its overarching religious ethos,as the church that oversees it seeks to bar some students from school captaincy.

  • byLachlan Abbott andNicole Precel
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Andrew Thorburn to step down from all board roles

Andrew Thorburn to step down from all board roles

The short-lived Essendon chief executive and former banker plans to spend more time with his family in 2023.

  • bySarah Danckert
Lost in the sand:Christian monastery ‘pre-dating Islam’ found in UAE

Lost in the sand:Christian monastery ‘pre-dating Islam’ found in UAE

The monastery on Siniyah Island,part of a sand-dune sheikhdom,sheds new light on early Christianity along the shores of the Persian Gulf.

  • byJon Gambrell
It seems that faith is not only unacceptable,but now must be cancelled

It seems that faith is not only unacceptable,but now must be cancelled

If Andrew Thorburn is guilty by association with City on a Hill,why is Daniel Andrews not guilty by association with the Catholic Church?

  • byBarney Zwartz
Archbishop questions commitment to tolerance in Thorburn saga

Archbishop questions commitment to tolerance in Thorburn saga

Andrew Thorburn’s forced exit from Essendon has crystallised insecurities held by people of faith about holding moral views against the secular majority.

  • byChip Le Grand
I’ve lost faith that Australia knows how to discuss religion
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Religion

I’ve lost faith that Australia knows how to discuss religion

The Essendon-Thorburn saga highlights that never before have Australians known so little about the foundational text of Australia’s biggest religion. And never before,it seems,had such strong opinions on it.

  • byAnthony Segaert