Comments on: As mainstream religion falters, so faith infiltrates politics

By: Darrin Hodges

Darrin Hodges — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:18:50 +0000

In fact, the Australian Christian Lobby was formed not long after the sex industry organised its own political lobby group, the Eros Association, in 1992. The timing said it all. So it would be no surprise to see the religious lobby do the same again, hot on the heels of the Australian Electoral Commission’s approval of the Sex Party’s registration as a political party and during the Secular Party’s continuing efforts to win the same status.

Isn’t that the basis of our secular democracy you pretend to believe in? Groups forming to lobby in their own interests and/or to counter-balance others?

By: Julie McNeill

Julie McNeill — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:15:00 +0000

I am heartened of your view that the rise of religious influence especially on political life is a stab at scientific secularism as part of its dying relevance, because it scares me. I can’t believe so many of our otherwise educated, politicians have an invisible friend, and are now publicly espousing from a base of patriarchal religious doctrine and a stone age text. Especially in Queensland on the ongoing criminilisation of abortion and its myriad consequences. Now I am sure we do need a Bill of Rights especially for women.

By: Michael Webb

Michael Webb — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:20:14 +0000

G’day Ross,

I was in the ALP from 1983 until 1994. I learnt though that the ALP kept itself out of office, not the DLP. Anyway long story but history of the NSW branch over past 20 years convinced me to leave and to join the DLP:
http://www.dlpnsw.com/

Michael O’Donohue, member of the Teachers Federation ; and myself a member of the Finance Sector Union; we run the DLP in NSW.
See our website and learn why. The issues and policies under each heading tell the story. Many Australians feel the same way.