‘We are absolutely in a new culture war’: ‘Religious freedom’ next on the Liberal agenda

On Monday night, former deputy prime minister John Anderson delivered a rousing and ominous speech to a gathering of religious educators in Parliament House.

• Michael Koziol
• WAtoday

With a gusto more suited to the Great Hall in which the Christian Schools Australia gala dinner normally takes place, Anderson dared speak the name of a spectre which is often invoked but rarely acknowledged: the culture war.

“We’re living in the age of enormous cultural disharmony, I put it to you,” he told his audience of principals, lobbyists and MPs. There was a “battle in our culture” between a classic version of freedom and the “latter day, politically correct” incarnation, he said, and “they can’t both…

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