Peter Kurti

Peter Kurti is Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program and is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Law and Business at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He has written extensively about issues of religion, liberty, culture and civil society in Australia, and appears frequently as a commentator on television and radio. In addition to having written many newspaper articles, he is also the author or editor of a number of books, including The Tyranny of Tolerance: Threats to Religious Liberty in Australia; Euthanasia: Seven Questions about Voluntary Assisted DyingSacred & Profane: Faith and Belief in a Secular Society; and Beyond Belief: Rethinking the Voice to Parliament. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an ordained minister in the Anglican Church of Australia.

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CIVIL SOCIETY AFTER COVID: On re-building a virtuous civic culture
Peter KurtiJune 17, 2020AP10

Australia faces an unprecedented economic and social challenge. In addition to economic recovery, the equally...

Rights, Morals, Dignity: Why defending religious freedom matters
Peter KurtiApril 10, 2020OP173

Calls for protections of rights are often made without much reflection on what it is,...

Toxic Mutation of an Ancient Hatred: Left-Wing Antisemitism
Peter KurtiNovember 13, 2019PP25

Antisemitism is on the rise in many Western countries. On the postmodern left, this ancient...

CRACKING UP? Culture and the Displacement of Virtue
Peter KurtiJuly 9, 2019AP4

Unease has been growing that something has changed for the worse in our culture. The...

Euthanasia: Putting the Culture to Death?
Peter KurtiSeptember 2, 2018

CLICK HERE TO BUY HARDCOPY Mounting pressure to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia is a...

A Shy Hope in the Mind: Secularisation and the Diversity of Australia’s Religious Economy
Peter KurtiJune 12, 2018AP1

There are few facets of human society — whether political, social, or economic — that...

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