Few issues have so divided Australians in the past couple of years as the federal government’s promise to enact religious freedom legislation, not least because the farther edges of its advocates and opponents distrust each other so vehemently.

Born out of the contentious debate over same-sex marriage, the religious discrimination bill was always going to attract its fair share of...

Australia’s biggest sporting bodies – including the AFL, NRL, FFA and Cricket Australia – have written a scathing response to the federal government’s proposed religious freedom bill.

The religious discrimination bill has had plenty of attention in the past few months. It was first released for public comment in August 2019, and a redrafted version was released in December.

Over the summer, the federal government released an amended draft of its proposed Religious Discrimination Bill, designed to satisfy the bill’s many...

Unions and employers have joined forces to fight the Morrison government’s controversial religious freedom bill, warning it will damage workplace harmony and pit employees from different backgrounds against each other at work.

Community service providers, including Jewish and Christian groups, have united to reject draft religious discrimination legislation over fears it could be harmful and favour religious expression over other rights.

Conservative Christians are some of the biggest supporters of Scott Morrison’s religious discrimination bill. But they should be careful what they wish for. It won’t just be gay people, women and people with disabilities who lose out under the proposed law. Christians will be among the biggest losers.

Proposed religious discrimination laws could put businesses in a “perilous” and “very expensive” position as they try to balance the rights of religious and non-religious employees.