For Australian Catholics, this could be a high-stakes election

Religious freedom, religious education and pro-life issues are all at stake in the Australian federal election on May 18.

Led by Bill Shorten and backed by the ultra-progressive Greens, the Australian Labor Party is spearheading radical, liberal, anti-Christian policy in Australia. If elected, Christian and Catholic communities will be marginalised. Polls show that Labor leads the Liberal-National coalition government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison by a 52-48 margin.

According to Patrick Byrne of the National Civic Council, a Christian lobby group founded in the 1940s, the stakes are particularly high for freedom of religion in education. “The Labor Party and the Greens are committed to removal of exemption for religious schools from the Sex Discrimination Act, with far-reaching implications,” he said.