What place do sacrilege laws have in 21st C Australia?

The Religion and Ethics Report - Separate stories podcast
02/04/2025 9 min
What place do sacrilege laws have in 21st C Australia?

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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.

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