Atheists down under say fans should take the census more seriously. By Pip Bulbeck It’s census time in Australia and on Tuesday around 65,000 Australians are expected to mark Jedi as their religion on ...

Yet the Christian percentage has been falling steadily for decades, and this year’s census will no doubt reveal a further fall since 2011. Of course, the census measures religious affiliation only, ...

RMIT University provides funding as a strategic partner of The Conversation AU. Deakin University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. A lack of religious literacy by journalists – and ...

The Australian government has proposed legislation that would protect religious freedom outside of the workplace. Attorney-General Christian Porter introduced the measure on August 29, three months ...

It's been 185 years this month since Australia's first Mormon arrived in Adelaide. He immediately regretted the move.

SYDNEY (AP) —Video of the attack spread quickly on social media and an angry mob converged on the church demanding vengeance. SYDNEY (AP) — A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop ...

We estimated the relationship between religion and body mass index (BMI) for a general and representative sample of the Australia population. Data from the Household Income Labour Dynamics survey were ...

Seven years ago, Simon Longstaff, the executive director of the St James Ethics Centre, was approached by a small group of parents. Longstaff’s not-for-profit organization in north Sydney usually ...

More than a decade ago, David Cameron, then prime minister of the UK, admitted that British children had been sexually abused on an “industrial scale” with authorities failing to act. He made child ...

When tens of thousands of Roman Catholics go, from every land, to a Eucharistic Congress it is not to quibble over prayer-books, nor to hold intra-denominational forensics over matters of faith or ...