Australian families are a little suspicious of actual faith right now. While the majority still identify with a religion, few people actually practice it in any meaningful way, with less and less church attendance. Also the Royal Commission into child abuse makes the news weekly, with countless stories of abuse at the hands of clergymen from various faiths. Right now parents just don't trust churches, so I'm not surprised they want to protect their kids from religious schooling.
In other news,
the UN continues to pester us on those damn human rights, this time something about breaking international law. I use the term news loosely, because lets be honest, this is hardly new. They have been complaining since we reopened the
concentration camps offshore detention facilities.
Clive watch: His approach to state law?
Nuke it from orbit.I think I have Palmer figured out. He is a libertarian, just orders of magnitude smarter that your average one. He doesn't parade around talking about freedom, or how government is evil, or his amazing pure philosophy. No, instead he just finds unpopular laws and sets out to destroy them and everything else even vaguely related. He will happily destroy all legislation he can, because he doesn't actually believe in any of it at all. He is a big fat Ayn Rand, but smart enough to not tell everybody because actually standing on that platform would make him a lot less popular than just hit and run tactics against policy.
Meanwhile, in environmental news:
The federal government engages Japanese whaling ships with what amounts to dickery. For those not in the loop, one of the pre-election promises made by then Shadow Environmental Minister Hunt was that Australia would send ship specially built for antarctic sea conditions, the Oceanic Protector, to monitor the Japanese fleet. A pretty weak promise, considering the ship was already commissioned under the Labor government to do exactly that, so we were going to have that presence either way... Except that when the Coalition won the election, Minister for Immigration and Boarder Protection Morrison decided he wanted all hands on deck and commandeered the Oceanic Protector, sending it north to terrorize refugees.
Well Hunt had to hand in something, so instead send a plane over to circle for ten minutes and then go home... Yea, because that will help.