Nov 22, 2021 | Latest News
By Paul Karp, The Guardian Religious leaders have said a pared-back version of the Coalition’s religious discrimination legislation would “deserve bipartisan support”, upping pressure on Labor to declare a position. In a joint statement, leaders including the Catholic...
Nov 18, 2021 | Latest News
By Geoff Chambers, The Australian Australians expressing reasonable and genuinely held faith-based views that might offend others will be shielded from prosecution by state-based anti-discrimination tribunals, under a reworked religious freedoms bill to be...
Nov 15, 2021 | Latest News
By Meredith Doig, president, Rationalist Society of Australia If the Religious Discrimination Bill were a submarine, it might now be taking on water and heading for the ocean floor. The Morrison government’s third draft of the bill may have suffered a blow right...
Nov 11, 2021 | Latest News
By Si Gladman, Rationalist Society of Australia A conservative government senator has stepped up pressure on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to deliver a Religious Discrimination Bill that meets the expectations of religious leaders. In a webinar hosted by the Institute...
Nov 5, 2021 | Latest News
By Paul Karp and Sarah Martin, The Guardian Religious groups have warned the Morrison government to retain a clause allowing discrimination against staff who don’t share their faith in the Coalition’s religious freedom bill, as Liberal MPs reserve their right to cross...
Nov 4, 2021 | Latest News
By Sarah Martin, The Guardian Coalition MPs are split over the government’s revised religious discrimination bill, with the attorney general, Michaelia Cash, holding urgent meetings with MPs before parliament returns to try to resolve the issue. Read the full article...
