Tag: Religious Freedom

It looks like the radical Greens abortion bill has been gutted but will still pass in a form that will allow nurses and midwives to prescribe abortion drugs. So, is this a pro-life win or a loss, asks Monica Doumit.

While the reduced influence of the anti-life, anti-faith Greens in the House of Representatives is a positive outcome of Saturday’s federal election, there is still one looming risk to religious freedoms, writes Monica Doumit

A new bill tabled in NSW parliament seeking to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortions is a push to make the state’s already extreme abortion laws even more radical, writes Monica Doumit.

The Human Rights Law Alliance is opening its doors to accept a new intake of law students for its legal academy. The academy is a week-long intensive based in Canberra, accepting young Christians studying law who wish to enrich their chosen profession with their faith and will be held in mid-July.

As we come to the end of 2024, the tide appears to be turning on key social issues, writes Monica Doumit.

As kids, we were all taught that “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” If that’s the case, why are governments seeking to expand anti-vilification laws in a way that mere words can land a person in prison, asks Monica Doumit.

There are two reasons why we shouldn’t ignore the federal Greens’ recent promise to provide $100m of funding for abortion in public hospitals, writes Monica Doumit.

Across our country, the ability for Australians of faith to worship and proselytise has been increasingly curtailed in the name of "anti-discrimination" and "inclusion." Now with its proposed misinformation and disinformation laws, the federal government has Australians of faith in its sights in the name of "truth."

Premier Chris Minns has backed a contentious bill proposed by independent member for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, that would see people able to have the sex on their birth certificate changed simply by signing a form.

It’s often said you should never meet your heroes. Those you admire from afar often fail to live up to your expectations when you meet them personally. George Mason Professor of Law Helen Alvaré had the opposite effect on me—I left feeling that just maybe, I had met someone on the road to sainthood.

Law professor Joanna Howe hopes her “incredibly gruelling fight” to continue her research on abortion will be a blow to cancel culture and a win for free speech, after she won a Fair Work Commission case against the University of Adelaide.

It’s an “ugly scene” when the church’s teaching collides with the new sexual orthodoxy, but religious freedom is still possible, said visiting US Catholic legal scholar, Professor Helen Alvaré, in the latest instalment of Scholarship at the Cathedral on 12 August.