The number of Australians moving away from religion is rising fast, with new statistics revealing that the proportion of Australians identifying as having ‘no religion’ has risen from merely 0.7 percent in 1961 to almost 40 percent 2021. The Australian Bureau of Statistics’s census from five years earlier showed that the proportion of irreligious was…

Commentary While the Australian legal tradition cannot lay claim to the historical depth it has in the United States; it was nevertheless built on solid religious foundations. The island nation has remarkable Christian influences—starting with the first British fleet departing for Australia in 1787 when Captain Arthur Phillip was instructed to enforce due observance of…

Australia’s population is going through a generational shift, with the baby boomers no longer being the largest demographic in Australia as the cohort continues to shrink while the millennials expand through migration. According to the 2021 census, baby boomers and millennials now each has over 5.4 million Australians, or 21.5 percent, tieing first as the…