The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast

In an election campaign dominated by cost-of-living pressures, energy supplies, and an assertive China, is there any room for religion as a political issue? GUEST: Professor JOSHUA ROOSE of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. 

It’s a crime many thought was a relic of decades past. But South Australian police have charged a man … with sacrilege. In an election campaign dominated by cost-of-living pressures, energy supplies, and an assertive China, is there any room for religion as a political issue? Paying extra on a loan is also known as usury. It’s an ancient concept with Biblical roots. GUESTS: Professor JOSHUA ROOSE...

Australia’s Reserve Bank has left interest rates on hold. In an election, especially, interest rates are always a political challenge. But paying extra on a loan is also known as usury. It’s an ancient concept with Biblical roots. GUEST: PETER KURTI is co-author of a new paper for the Centre for Independent Studies. It’s called Interest, Usury and the Common Good.

In 2025, in a country that’s now minority Christian, a South Australian man who allegedly broke into a church faces a charge … of sacrilege. It’s an offence many probably thought had long disappeared from the law. Dr RENAE BARKER is a senior lecturer specialising in law and religion at the University of Western Australia.

What’s the verdict on the 2025 budget, announced this week by Treasurer Jim Chalmers, from those who work with Australia’s most vulnerable people? SUE KING is manager of advocacy and research at the faith-based welfare agency Anglicare Sydney. Mass demonstrations have roiled Turkiye’s biggest city of Istanbul. Protesters are angry at the jailing of the popular mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, on corruption...

What’s the verdict on the 2025 budget, announced this week by Treasurer Jim Chalmers, from those who work with Australia’s most vulnerable people? 

Mass demonstrations have roiled Turkiye’s biggest city of Istanbul. Protesters are angry at the jailing of the popular mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, on corruption charges that they say are concocted. The mayor was shaping up as the strongest rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who’s been in power for 22 years.