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.
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has flagged significant changes to proposed misinformation laws,delaying the introduction of a final bill to parliament until next year.
Equality groups have become concerned about lack of action over a bill to ban gay conversion therapy in NSW.
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.
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.
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.
The short-lived Essendon chief executive and former banker plans to spend more time with his family in 2023.
The monastery on Siniyah Island,part of a sand-dune sheikhdom,sheds new light on early Christianity along the shores of the Persian Gulf.
If Andrew Thorburn is guilty by association with City on a Hill,why is Daniel Andrews not guilty by association with the Catholic Church?
Andrew Thorburn’s forced exit from Essendon has crystallised insecurities held by people of faith about holding moral views against the secular majority.
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.