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Religious Discrimination Bill: A Cure Worse Than the Disease for Australians of Faith

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Religious Discrimination Bill: A Cure Worse Than the Disease for Australians of Faith
A worshipper lights a candle while another prays inside St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia, on April 1, 2005. Rob Elliot/AFP via Getty Images
Morgan Begg
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The danger of the Australian government’s new religious discrimination bill is that in adding more laws on top of bad laws, Australians of faith could find it is a cure that is worse than the disease.

Morgan Begg
Morgan Begg
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Morgan Begg is the director of the Legal Rights Program at the Institute of Public Affairs in Melbourne, Australia. His interests lie in constitutional government and the rule of law, and freedom of speech and religion, particularly in relation to anti-discrimination laws.
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