Commentary One of the most peculiar characteristics of contemporary Australia is that opponents of religious expression often assume that Christian beliefs are irremediably divisive, bigoted, and irrational. As a result, Christian people and organisations can now be sued for merely living by their traditional religious beliefs. Even Christian schools may not be allowed to teach students according to traditional values on matters of gender and sexuality. The choice of the nation’s ruling elites to supposedly defend self-identifying “victim” groups has produced an undesirable confrontation between existing groups, where each group tends to deny having any obligation to the values of other groups. This is certainly not about real “diversity,” but rather about government control and regulation through division and separation along the lines of religion, ethnicity and so forth. It is simply the re-application of the Ancient Roman strategy of “divide-and-conquer” to destabilise rival civilisations by turning people against one …