The current Australia religious landscape is rationalised by Christianity as the major religious tradition. Through 1947 Christianity had been established as the major religious tradition in Australia. This was due to the European settlers of the 18th and 19th centuries who imparted to Australia their traditional Christian churches especially the Church of England and the Roman Catholic, Lutheran Congregationalist, Methodist, Presbyterian and the Baptist churches. Traditional Indigenous religions
I chose Australia due to the amount of positive feedback I have received from relatives who contemplated never returning back to the States after their visiting the land down under. The BBC describes Australia as one of “the best countries to live in comparisons to wealth, education, health and quality of life.” (BBC, 2015) I was not sure if their popularity was due to the positive effects of globalization or if it was because they chose to not extremely globalize like the other countries. Upon
executive. It takes precedence over, and cannot be amended by ordinary legislation. Currently, Australia remains the only Western democratic country that has neither a constitutional nor statutory legislative Bill of Rights, although there has been ongoing debate on whether it is needed in many of Australia's states. The questions raised now are whether and how human rights should be protected in Australia. This essay seeks to analyse inadequate ways that are in need of reform in which the Australian
THE CHANGING NATIONAL IDENTITY OF AUSTRALIA: Australia’s national identity has greatly changed over the past 100 years since federation and will continue to change and evolve into the future. The national identity of Australia is composed of many different elements, however, the fundamental and core principles of Australia’s national identity rest on the political and recreational attitudes and values of her citizens and their rights and freedoms as individuals, the growing diversity in the racial