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25 Feb

As Christian nationalism’s new figurehead, Trump inspires Australia’s extremes

The first days of Trump’s second presidency have passed with a flurry of tariff standoffs and literal turf wars with Greenland, ...

02 Jan

Feature series

Kingdom coming

09/01/2025
By Brian McKinlay
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This article is part of our ‘Timeless Pieces’ series of summer reading, featuring articles from our former hardcopy Australian Rational...

12 Nov

Law & Politics

The white God problem in politics

As ‘ex-vangelicals’ around the world deconstruct the faith of their formative years, one topic repeatedly comes up – that of white GOP ...

10 Oct

Law & Politics

It’s time to take a stand against far-right politics

10/10/2024
By Matthe Sharpe
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Political operatives on the far right have long spoken about their ambition to shift the “Overton window”. The aim is to ...

13 Mar

Law & Politics

Reaching for the mountain tops in Mayor Tate’s kingdom

13/03/2024
By Si Gladman
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Sue Baynes loves Christmas. A self-declared “Christmas tragic”, she gets her Christmas tree set up early – in November – and tells her ...

29 Dec

Ethics & Religion

The legend of the first Christmas and ‘sodomites’

There is an obscure medieval legend that says once upon a time in Bethlehem a child was born whose holiness was so great it required th...

11 Dec

Ethics & Religion

Christian dominionism: Follow the money

13/03/2024
By Chrys Stevenson
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This article is based on a speech given by the author at the Secularism Australia Conference on 2 December in Sydney. For all...

08 Dec

Letters to the Editor

The case for a new form of censorship

Editor’s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our ...

27 Apr

Education

‘Holding the line’ on Religious Instruction for the Christian Right

27/04/2023
By Alison Courtice
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Queensland’s education minister Grace Grace faces a decision of either listening to her Labor colleagues and their call to remove Relig...

08 Apr

Ethics & Religion

Radicalisation and white Christian nationalism

Last year, I had a quick conversation with another writer about the difference between the ‘far right’ and ‘extreme right’ when it came...

08 Nov

Law & Politics

Raised in her father’s church

13/03/2024
By Si Gladman
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In 2019, when Clare Heath-McIvor wrote on her blog about why she wasn’t a dominionist anymore, she recalled that her entire chur...

29 Oct

Law & Politics

‘Infiltrate, Impact, Impel’: Raising up Christians for the Liberal Party

30/10/2022
By Si Gladman
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Upon signing up as a member of the Liberal Party in Victoria, some churchgoers have been handed a one-page document with the title ‘Pol...

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