More than 1,000 new believers celebrated by taking part in mass baptisms on both sides of the country on Good Friday. A coalition of churches organised one of them on the Frankston foreshore in Melbourne. Many spontaneous last-minute decisions made
Birthing is significantly safer for women and babies under the continuous care of obstetricians in private hospitals, upcoming research will reveal, as calls grow for an urgent rescue for Australia’s diminishing private maternity units. Starkly different rates of neonatal death
One in ten Australians who ticked the ‘no religion’ box in the 2016 census reported they were Christian in the 2021 census. That’s the surprising finding of a report due to be released in full shortly by research company McCrindle.
One of Australia’s foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a mother who wished to prescribe her child puberty blockers, in a judgment that calls into question the
Adam Doueihi insists God was the reason he returned to rugby league after rupturing his ACL for a third time. Doueihi started attending St Joseph’s Catholic Church in Croydon, in Sydney’s inner west, to pray every day after suffering an
Catholic schools have called for the “ideological” national curriculum to be abolished, as new research reveals more boys are slipping behind girls in their academic performance. NSW Catholic Schools chief executive Dallas McInerney said every Australian school should be able
Alarm bells are ringing in NSW: Greens MP Dr. Amanda Cohn’s abortion bill is more than legislation—it’s a harbinger for our nation. Behind the façade of “improving access” lurks something far more concerning: a telling glimpse of what happens when
Controversial anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah has had her $870,000 taxpayer-funded research grant suspended after she bragged earlier this year about bending research rules. Education Minister Jason Clare in January ordered an investigation into Dr Abdel-Fattah’s funding and the Australian Research
Victoria was the first Australian jurisdiction to pass Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) legislation in 2017. It is now considered the most ‘conservative’ VAD law in Australia. However, following a five-year review recently released, there is a push to rewrite the
Some of Australia’s senior business leaders have banded together to condemn a controversial move requiring company directors to disclose their sexual orientation and religious beliefs, amid expectations diversity reforms will be put on ice as tensions erupt within corporate boardrooms.
