Opinion: So much for mutual obligation: New job, first day, no show | JennaPrice
Morrison may have missed the beginning of parliament, but his preoccupations sounded loud and clear – the pomp and circumstance, religion and monarchy. This is a man who adores ritual – but perhaps he’s had enough now. Australians certainly have. If we could get rid of gods and foreign heads of state, parliament could have got straight to business. There is, as we know, no time to waste.Still, I loved watching member after member get called up, in their first-day best. Smart jackets.
You’d imagine that, in 2022, there would be a rush of politicians affirming enthusiastically, in a mirror image of the people they represent. The last census shows a distinct uptick in Australians identifying as having no religion and a real slump in Christianity. The last time those saints in the parliamentary library published anything on oaths versing affirmations, the affs were rising hell for leather .
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