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03 Oct

The world “does have intelligent design”, says Andrew Hastie

03/10/2025
By Si Gladman
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Ten years ago, during his first political campaign, Andrew Hastie refused to answer media questions about his religious views an...

24 Sep

Ethics & Religion

Christian extremism: An American ideological contagion in the Australian context

Up until 26 August 2025, white Christian nationalism may have remained an abstract concept – something that happens in America, but not...

10 Jun

Letters to the Editor

‘Heritage’ is no argument against change on parliamentary prayers

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12 May

Letters to the Editor

Will the Coalition ever learn to stop imposing religion on the public?

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25 Feb

Law & Politics

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

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