It was good to be invited to the first of planned regular meetings with faith leaders by the Victorian Opposition Leader, Mr John Pesutto.

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) will continue to pray for Daniel Andrews, Victoria’s re-elected Premier.

The Northern Territory (NT) Labor Government has pushed through discrimination laws that directly contradict the commitments made by the Federal Labor Attorney General, the Hon Mark Dreyfus, in respect to the Federal Religious Discrimination Bill.

The booting of Essendon Football Club’s newly appointed CEO, Andrew Thorburn, over his Christian beliefs and church involvement is concerning fair-minded Australians who continue to express their anger through social media with comments such as, “Seems we have lost free speech and freedom to be ourselves in this country now!!!!” “Diversity is the in thing, unless it’s something diverse from the woke narrative.”

Controversial recommendations by the Queensland Human Rights Commission (QHRC) would remove the right of Christian schools to exclusively hire teachers and staff whose values align with the religious ethos of the schools, according to the Australian Christian Lobby.

Data from the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census has begun to be rolled out and the results on religion have garnered a lot of attention.

Signifying the importance of the moment, Prime Minister Scott Morrison today tabled the government’s promised Religious Discrimination Bill.

The Government’s long-awaited Religious Discrimination Bill is a constructive and helpful reform, requiring further improvement.

Next week, the federal government is expected to introduce a long-awaited religious discrimination bill that will make it unlawful to discriminate against religious Australians. The largely unremarkable bill will extend protection to religious belief that other attributes such as sex, race and sexuality have enjoyed for many decades.

By Vanessa Cheng and Mark Spencer