This article is a version of the paper presented by the author at “A World Without Christianity”, a colloquium held by the Christopher Dawson Centre for Cultural Studies in Hobart, Tasmania, 29-30 June 2018. He wishes to thank his colleague, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]