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2017: a year to acknowledge the leaven of faith in Australian politics

22 December 2017

12:50 PM

22 December 2017

12:50 PM

With Australian politics becoming somewhat top-heavy with careerist party-hacks and apparatchiks who view power for its own sake as the endgame, 2017 saw the departure of two politicians whose contribution to public life was primarily driven by faith and its vision for human flourishing. Examples abound of such parliamentarians from all sides of Australian politics, but the following two cases are illustrative.

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