Exploring Religion and Politics: Introduction
During the decade of conservative government under Prime Minister John Howard, religion acquired a political importance long absent from Australian public life. Those who looked to the election of a Labor government to change the situation might have been disappointed: incoming Prime Minister Kevin...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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AASR
[2009]
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Australian religion studies review
Year: 2009, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 322-323 |
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Summary: | During the decade of conservative government under Prime Minister John Howard, religion acquired a political importance long absent from Australian public life. Those who looked to the election of a Labor government to change the situation might have been disappointed: incoming Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who had launched his bid for the Labor leadership by writing a widely discussed pair of articles about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, spoke regularly about his faith. His government's first formal act in the new Parliament was a quasi-liturgical national apology to the Stolen Generation of Indigenous children taken from their families. |
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ISSN: | 1744-9014 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Australian religion studies review
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/arsr.v22i3.322 |