Analysis of a 16 April 2026 survey by YouGov on behalf of the Secular Association of NSW on people's attitudes towards their religion and their Australian citizenship.
The Hon Michael Kirby AC, CMG was Australia's longest serving judge when he retired from the High Court of Australia in 2009. He delivered a talk about church-state separation (secularism) at the RMIT law school in 2013. Here he sketches the development of secularism in France, the US, India, Malaysia and Australia.
A discussion of former High Court justice Michael Kirby's sentiment that Australia should be grateful for ‘British secularism’, and a deeper analysis of separation of government and religion in Australia.
The Secular Association of New South Wales commissioned a national YouGov poll, conducted 15–21 February 2024 from a sample of 1,087, on formal constitutional separatation of church and state.
Both federal and state governments require the recitation of prayers in government proceedings, promote religious doctrine in political debate, and grant financial assistance for church activities such as schools and 'charitable' activities. This disregards the rise of the UN with its 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which was specifically implemented to create a universal 'sound [public] morality' regardless of one's religion or other worldview.
