Well done Paul Kelly and Greg Sheridan (Weekend Australian 2/3/24) for finally raising the core issue that Australian public discourse has been avoiding since WW2: what is Australia’s agreed reference point - for legislation and politics, public life, and private enterprise?
As they wrote, our lack of this reference point results in fragmentation, culture wars, victim-entitlement, and a lack of investment confidence. But let’s now identify the most obvious solution. Somebody has to say it: let’s officially nominate the Bible as Australia‘s reference point for national policy. Make it our moral compass when deciding laws, values, government processes. Morality is what societies’ laws are all about - what’s good & bad, allowable & not. But which moral set are we using? And why that set? There is a stronger case for the Bible than for any other moral code.
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