The Turnbull government has ordered a comprehensive review of the family law system to ensure it can deal with cases of domestic violence and child abuse. The Australian Law Reform Commission will conduct a wide-ranging review of the Family Law Act, the first comprehensive examination since its introduction forty-two years ago. In the meantime, a […]

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Behind the 'love is love' sloganeering stands the muscular presence of statist enforcers. Given the demonstrated eagerness of publicly funded anti-discrimination bodies to harass even Catholic bishops with protracted lawfare, where a 'Yes' victory leads is grimly apparent

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The ballots are in the mail and the question could not be more bland: "Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?" After that, should the answer be 'yes', what next? If the overseas experience is any guide, religious liberty and freedom of conscience will be in peril

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The AMA's endorsement of child-rearing in same-sex marriages has drawn protests from doctors and professors who accuse President Michael Gannon of ignoring adverse research in favour of dangerous, politically correct myths. An overwhelming body of research supports their case

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For reasons that have again failed to excite the curiosity of the responsible minister, the national broadcaster seems to bear a persistent animus toward Christianity. Yet, in their attitudes towards women in general and domestic violence in particular, the followers of Jesus set the gold standard

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For CNN’s W. Kamau Bell, Islam has always been present in the United States. Mr Bell has devoted an entire episode of his series United Shades of America to explore Muslim communities throughout the US. “Islam has always been part of the American fabric,” one Muslim person in Detroit tells him at an anti-Trump event. “A lot […]

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Rather than promote tolerance, religious vilification laws stress separateness. Confronted by cases where, say, one creed's condemnation of another's dogma is indicted as hate speech, our secular courts will be obliged to address matters entirely theological. This is absurd and intolerable

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British hospitals report an average of fifteen cases of female genital mutilation each day, yet despite the practice being illegal since 1984 there have been no successful prosecutions. Where are the feminists on this and other issues such as forced marriages and 'honour' killings? Nowhere, it seems

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In a democracy, people must be free to speak even the unspeakable. That Australians are currently constrained from doing so is both a glaring example of legislative overreach and judicial caprice. That is the prime argument for repeal and reform, but far from the only one

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Since restraining orders are granted 'ex parte' and no rules of evidence are properly applied, thousands of innocent people have been caught in police proceedings and evicted from their homes on the basis of edicts that grossly violate the most fundamental elements of due process

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