Australia needs to recognise conscience rights, not just religious rights

Two problems with Scott Morrison’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill. First, what does it mean for those who make a stand on conscientious, not religious, grounds? Why should our laws [...]

At the present time Federal Parliament is debating whether to remove exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act which allow religious educational bodies to discriminate if they are acting in [...]

There is a considerable risk that the Morrison government might be contemplating the enactment of discrimination laws that could ban so-called ‘hate speech’ on the basis of severe criticism of [...]

On 14-15 June 2019, at Sheridan College in Perth, Western Australia, we the undersigned either presented or introduced presenters at the conference “Religious Freedom at the Crossroads: The Rise [...]

Every once in a while, we have a win for free speech and for religious liberty. Not often mind you, but occasionally. And one of the biggest threats to our freedoms come from the rainbow tyrants. [...]

by Andrew Lansdown Unity is one of the attributes, one of the characteristics, of God. While “unity”, as a theological term, may be unfamiliar to some Christians, most Christians would be [...]

Concerning the Lord Jesus, the prophet Isaiah foretold: “he shall see the fruit of the travail of his soul and be satisfied” (53:11, RSV). I want to offer a short meditation on this strange, [...]

from the Barnabas Fund Children who died for Christ. “How many of you are willing to die for Christ?” said the Sunday School teachers to the children of Zion Evangelical Church, Batticaloa, on [...]

by Dwight A. Randall Four days before the Federal Election, at the 21st Annual Rally for Life attended by approximately 2,000 people at the Western Australian Parliament House, I warned [...]

Australia is a multi-faith society where people of different faiths and of no faith have to relate to one another and develop ways of living together. Everyone should avoid being “uncomfortable” [...]