Canberra Observed: Freedom of religion or freedom from religion?*

Employment Services Minister Tony Abbott must feel like a World War I Digger who has gone over the top from the trenches in the face of enemy fire only to look behind and find no one there to support him. The Minister has found himself doing battle against the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) over its draft guidelines on discrimination of religious organisations in employment. The Commission wants to stop religious organisations discriminating in favor of their own kind in j…

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