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Rivals for Trump's GOP presidential nomination court influential Iowa evangelicals in a bid to gain support at the Iowa Faith, Freedom Coalition's annual event

Deputy Liberal leader David Southwick has given a personal "iron-clad guarantee" that the LGBTQI community would be protected from discrimination when a future Victorian Coalition government makes changes to the state's newly-enacted Equal Opportunity laws.

Victorian Liberal leader Matt Guy had promised to change the law so that religious schools could hire staff on the basis of their faith and allow them to discriminate against LGBTQI staff. 

Long-overdue law reforms to ban religious organisations and faith-based schools in Victoria from refusing to hire or sacking teachers and staff for being LGBTQI came into effect Tuesday.

Not just in Victoria but around Australia, the Christian School movement is responding to the Andrews Governments much stricter laws about employing ...

It’s four years since the Australian Parliament amended the Marriage Act 1961 to provide that marriage means ‘the union of two people to the exclusion of all others’. The legislation followed the plebiscite on same sex marriage.  To address the concerns of some religious groups, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull set up an expert panel chaired by long time Liberal Party minister Philip Ruddock to report on whether Australian law adequately protected the human right to freedom of religion. Ha...

Protesters rallied agains against the federal government’s religious discrimination bill. Rachel Evans reports. 

Victoria's Parliament passed Daniel Andrews’ government's Equal Opportunity (Religious Exceptions) Amendment Bill to prohibit religious schools from refusing to hire or sacking teachers and staff for being LGBTQI.

The Andrews Labor Government is continuing to protect LGBTIQ+ Victorians against discrimination, with landmark reforms now in effect and further new