Well, it’s official. Australian politicians face a religious test for office. But it doesn’t have anything to do with God.
On Tuesday night Paul Murray broadcast his Pub Test forum from Launceston. Come question time, Murray twice reshaped a question into a demand for faith, and the candidates dissembled and distracted in order to avoid looking blasphemous.
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