October 2024
‘I have let you down’: Fortescue’s Hutchinson apologises to gay staff
Fortescue chairman Andrew Forrest says his leaders are required to back equality, prompting a mea culpa from energy boss Mark Hutchinson.
Fortescue boss a leader of church group against homosexuality
The chief executive of the company’s energy division is a director of Alpha International, which also preaches that prayer can cure cancer and crossed eyes.
May 2024
New hate speech laws in focus as social cohesion frays
Anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on the fence of a Melbourne Jewish school has been condemned by the prime minister as the government considers tougher penalties for hate speech.
April 2024
Rio and BHP’s massive US copper mine faces religious freedom challenge
Resolution Copper would be the largest development of its kind. Native American groups opposed to it have found new financiers for legal action against it.
March 2024
Scrap private school religious discrimination rules, Labor advised
The government now has advice it sought from the Australian Law Reform Commission on how to deliver an election promise – but looks unlikely to proceed.
October 2022
Thorburn’s cancelling shows politics is now football’s main game
The AFL prides itself on being a cultural and workplace leader – and unfortunately it is. What the AFL does today is what the government and society will do tomorrow.
May 2022
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Liberal MP hopes voters back her independent spirit
Liberal MP Bridget Archer is walking a razor-thin margin of 0.4 per cent to secure a second term in the Tasmanian seat of Bass.
At-risk Liberal MP wants to align timing of faith and LGBTQ laws
Curtin MP Celia Hammond thinks the two issues should remain separate but thinks they need to be dealt with in unison.
PM appears unaware of surgery rules for trans youngsters
Scott Morrison has echoed candidate Katherine Deves’ worries about transgender children, saying gender reassignment surgery poses “significant” and “serious” issues.
PM won’t put timeline on protections for gay students
Scott Morrison has reiterated that if he is reelected he wants to pass religious discrimination laws before dealing with protections for LGBTQI school students.
February 2022
Letters: Salvo across misogynist bows
Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins, Afghan assets, ACCC cartel case, religious discrimination bill, federal elections, Yellow Pages, public health and education.
Defeated Morrison shelves religious freedoms until after the election
The government will prosecute its controversial laws following the campaign at the polls after five Liberals sided with Labor to scuttle the signature policy.
Ditch divisive religious freedom laws: Smith-Gander
Leading business figure Diane Smith-Gander has urged the Morrison government to start again on controversial religious freedom laws.
Religious freedom bill creates divisions across party lines
If Labor has its way, it would hope the bill never gets to the Senate.
PM wins Coalition backing for religious freedom laws
Scott Morrison’s victory puts pressure on Labor to state its position in Parliament before the May federal election.
No time for federal ICAC: Cash
Laws on religious freedom and online trolls will be the Attorney-General’s top priorities in the final days of parliament.
January 2022
How Pentecostalism is reshaping America and the world
With 600 million followers, the evangelical born-again Christian movement is deep-pocketed and tech-savvy - and it has big ambitions to reform the society in which we live.
‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ on gay teachers being sacked
Christian teachers have told parliament that religious institutions can and do sack staff because of their sexuality.
December 2021
Catholic schools say preferencing Catholic teachers is a ‘religious right’
The peak body for Catholic schools in Australia has told the Senate that “Catholic schools should be free to be Catholic”, in the ongoing fight over the Coalition’s controversial religious freedom laws.
Religious freedom bill ‘bad for business’
The Diversity Council of Australia, made up of big companies and faith-based organisations, says Scott Morrison’s religious freedom laws are ‘bad for business’.