This was the key request from the Catholic bishops to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in March 2024 in regards to the Bureau of Statistics’ proposed new religion question for the Census. Read the full letters and our recent report: rationalist.com.au/exclusive-ca...
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Raised in a strict Catholic family, Keiran found himself heading towards a life as a friar in the Franciscan Order. But one book put him on a path out of religion. Want to share your story about leaving religion? censusnotreligious.org.au/share-your-story
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Do you mark 'Jedi', 'Pastafarian', or similar as a joke at Census time? It's important to mark 'No religion' if you're not really religious. Not being included in the 'No religion' count means non-religious Aussies continue to be under-represented: censusnotreligious.org.au
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Let's be clear: the religion question being used at this year's Census will be the question demanded by religious lobbyists, not the one the country needed. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au/2026/06/05/t...
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In our #Rationale magazine, cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson gives his take on what’s happening in current affairs. Check out his other recent cartoons here: rationalemagazine.com/index.php/au...
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“What strikes me is not that people believe strange things, but that they always have. The real difference lies in who they trust to tell the story of reality.” In #Rationale magazine, David Magson writes about the declining trust in institutions.
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“Such legislation has been criticised by RANZCOG and others as misinformation and as not being based on evidence.” In The Guardian, Tory Shepherd writes on the several efforts to push anti-abortion legislation into state and federal parliaments.
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“The Pope is pitching for ritual and prayer in a time of radical upheaval. What we need are policies and well-grounded social innovation. These the encyclical doesn’t offer.” In our Rationale magazine, Paul Monk reviews Pope Leo XIV's encyclical about AI.
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Documents obtained by the Rationalist Society of Australia show that Australia’s Catholic bishops wrote to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese asking him to intervene and “reverse” proposed changes to the Census religion question. Read more: rationalist.com.au/exclusive-ca...
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Religious clerics who have spent years calling for ‘religious freedom’ laws have again declined to advocate for the fundamental right of non-religious people and elected representatives to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. More: rationalist.com.au/faith-commit...
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I can still picture it: a page from the illustrated encyclopedia my parents gave me as a child. A man dressed in animal skins walks across an open moor. The clouds above him are black, lightning split...
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Census – Not Religious? Mark 'No Religion'.
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Australia’s Catholic bishops wrote to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese asking him to intervene and “reverse” proposed changes to the Census religion question, the Rationalist Society of Australia can r...
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Obstetricians and gynaecologists say anti sex-selective abortions bill ‘predicated on misinformation’ and ‘underlying aim is to restrict access to abortion’
If you are not a Christian – think of, say, Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian (1927) – or, in fact, a devout Catholic, it’s not immediately apparent why you would take the time to read an en...
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Religious clerics who have spent years calling for ‘religious freedom’ laws have again declined to advocate for the fundamental right of non-religious people and elected representatives to freedom of ...
