Religious freedom made a loud return to mainstream media headlines this week after Fairfax media released a series of articles claiming to leak the contents of the long-awaited Ruddock report into religious freedom.

In late July, the Australian Family Coalition shared that outgoing Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon was behind a push to abolish the 117-year-old tradition of prayers in the Senate.

In this week’s update: over 3000 submissions lodged to Queensland’s abortion “reform” inquiry, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison flags the potential strengthening of religious freedom legislation.

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John Howard, Western civilisation, and a slap-down of our politically correct culture.

Sounds like a top story, right? The Daily Telegraph though so – but Facebook definitely did not!

Dr David van Gend, a Toowoomba GP, is currently facing a disciplinary hearing with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), over allegations of “discriminatory conduct”.

The silence surrounding the Ruddock inquiry into religious freedom has been briefly broken.

While many await the Attorney-General’s response to the inquiry’s report, Ruddock panel member Father Frank Brennan has spoken at a human rights conference in Melbourne.

His remarks will do little to reassure those who voted “No” in last year’s marriage debate, suggesting changes to the law are required, but only in the form of “tweaking”.

In this week’s update: a UK doctor loses his job for believing gender is determined at birth, new Queensland LNP senator Amanda Stoker predicts “terrible consequences” if euthanasia becomes law as senators receive thousands of emails, and more.

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In this week’s update: our campaign to stop open slather prostitution in SA, the “Safe Schools” program officially scrapped in SA, and Ireland’s gay PM targets Catholic doctors.

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In this week’s update: the NSW Parliament passes exclusion-zone legislation around abortion clinics, ACT legislates over the confessional, and the US Supreme Court upholds religious freedom for a Colorado baker.

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The ‘Expert Panel’ on religious freedom has now handed its much-anticipated report to the Federal Government.

And although the panel’s recommendations are being kept under wraps for now, the initial response from senior Cabinet members has been quite encouraging – and reflect the spirit of our Declaration of Religious Freedom.