Some of Australia’s most powerful religious bodies have taken aim at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and also the Greens – accusing them of threatening the future of religious freedom.
But the cause of this backlash is simply the possibility that the government would work with the Greens to reform a 40-year-old loophole in our discrimination laws.
So, what’s really at stake? And is there about to be a showdown between religious lobbies and the prime minister?
Today, national correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe, on religion’s influence in Canberra and the political strategy behind Albanese’s latest move.
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Guest: National correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe
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