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Exploring the implications of a liberal understanding of freedom for religion in civil society, and analysing religion as a form of social capital in the public sphere. Recent research focuses on anti-Semitism and religious hatred, along with broader questions as to the meaning and value of religion in Australia.

Australians shouldn’t be ashamed
Simon CowanJanuary 25, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

In recent weeks we have been treated to yet another #changethedate campaign based on how...

Socialist utopia is complete fantasy
Thomas CoppelJanuary 25, 2019Ideas@TheCentre

Views that Australia will turn into a utopia under socialism are wildly uninformed, and that...

Don’t say anything religious at Christmas
December 22, 2018

For as we approach year’s end, never before have Australians been as divided as we...

The Weaponising of Victimhood and Grievance
Peter Kurti, Robert ForsythDecember 15, 2018Quadrant

A gulf is opening in our society. On one side is the majority, genuinely tolerant...

Santa’s a thief and a bandit
Peter KurtiDecember 14, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The imagined sounds of reindeer hooves clomping on the roof, and those of a laden...

Please, tech giants … take over my life
Monica WilkieDecember 14, 2018Ideas@TheCentre

The ACCC this week released an alarming report into tech companies and digital giants, recommending...

Chaining Australia: Church Bureaucracies and Political Economy
Geoffrey BrennanAugust 1, 1984R6

If we lived in a perfect world, church bodies would not have gotten together to...

The Christian and the State
Geoffrey BrennanApril 1, 1983OP7

What should be the nature of social and political action which flows from Christian commitment?...

A confident secularist society would tolerate school religion
Brendan O'NeillJuly 28, 2011The Sydney Morning Herald

Can a half-hour chat about God really warp children's minds? Listening to Australia's increasingly irate...

Beware pink totalitarianism
Jeremy SammutJuly 15, 2011The Spectator

Though a traditionalist at heart, on the question of gay marriage I am appropriately agnostic....

Battery full? Save energy and remove charger from wall socket
Peter KurtiJuly 8, 2011

It used to be enough that the phone’s battery was charged. Not any longer. My...

Must Religion be a Threat to Liberty?
Robert SiricoJuly 21, 2008

The arguments for the unity of freedom and unbelief are common cultural currency. We are...

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