Australian Polity, Volume 10 Number 1 & 2
March 2022 issue of Australian Polity
March 2022 issue of Australian Polity
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the state, status of a state religion, as I said in my first
maiden speech to this place.
Just over 80 years ago, President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt spoke about what he called the four essential
human freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom from
want, freedom from fear and the freedom of worship. In
Australia, Sir Robert Menzies was so taken by those four
freedoms that he made them integral to his ‘Forgotten
People’ broadcasts. These broadcasts became the
intellectual foundation of the Party that he founded,
and I have the great privilege to now lead in this place.
In its DNA, together the Liberals and the Nationals -
our government believes in these four freedoms in the
deepness of our own DNA. The freedom to worship is
not merely the freedom to believe. It is the freedom to
think. It is the freedom to exercise our conscience. The
freedom to doubt. Indeed, the freedom not to believe.
“In so many settings,
faith strengthens lives,
it provides that sense of
belonging.”
This protection will give Australians of faith confidence
- confidence to be themselves and confidence in the
country they belong to. A resilient democracy that can
embrace faith and not be threatened by it. Our faith
communities contribute to our national life, all playing
a part in helping live out our great destiny as a people.
Australians - one and free.
Scott Morrison is the Prime Minister of Australia. This is
an edited version of his Second Reading Speech on the
Religious Discrimination Bill.
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