Radio Interview: ABC Tas 28.6.17 – Census 2016 results: why we are majority Secular
ABC Hobart 28.6.17 – Ryk Goddard interviews Brian Morris. It covers; why the ‘No Religion’ figure was still only 30.1%; the ‘hidden’ 20% of ‘lapsed Christians’ means that Australia is, in reality, more than 50% secular; how the Census bias has privileged religion since Federation — both financially and politically. Plain Reason: Promoting science, reason, […]
Radio Interview: ABC NSW 28.6.17 – Census 2016 results: why we are majority Secular
ABC Goulburn 28.6.17 – Joseph Tomsen interview Brian Morris. Joseph didn’t forward an MP3 of the interview — which covered; why the ‘No Religion’ figure was still only 30.1%; the ‘hidden’ 20% of ‘lapsed Christians’ means that Australia is, in reality, more than 50% secular; how the Census bias has privileged religion since Federation — […]
Radio Interview: ABC SA 27.6.17 – Census 2016 results: why we are majority Secular
ABC South Australia regional 27.6.17 – Narelle Graham interviews Brian Morris. The interview covered; why the ‘No Religion’ figure was still only 30.1%; the ‘hidden’ 20% of ‘lapsed Christians’ means that Australia is, in reality, more than 50% secular; how the Census bias has privileged religion since Federation — both financially and politically; and now […]
Radio Interview: ABC Qld 27.6.17 – Census 2016 results: why we are majority Secular
ABC Sunshine Coast 27.6.17 – Sheridan Stewart interviews Brian Morris. Sheridan didn’t forward an MP3 of the interview — which covered; why the ‘No Religion’ figure was still only 30.1%; the ‘hidden’ 20% of ‘lapsed Christians’ means that Australia is, in reality, more than 50% secular; how the Census bias has privileged religion since Federation […]
Media Release: 2016 Census – Only one error corrected: 27.6.17
Only one Census error corrected – but we are ‘Religion-Neutral’ “Three key benefits (1) will flow from Australia being confirmed as ’religion-neutral’ – now that Census statistics correctly show ‘No Religion’ to be the largest social demographic,” says director of Plain Reason, Brian Morris. Released today – by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) – […]
Opinion: Daily Telegraph: Science vs Scripture in Private Schools
Published in the Daily Telegraph: short version to the previous AIM article: 28.4.17 Science vs Scripture in Private Schools: Brian Morris Education and science could not be more compatible, one might think. Kids learning about the natural world, how we are all made of atoms, and studying the ‘scientific method’ — how theories are tested […]
Opinion: Media Network: School science sacrificed to scripture
Published in the Australian Independent Media Network: 26.4.17 Published in the Daily Telegraph: shorter version 28.4.17 Articles by Brian Morris: School Science Sacrificed to Scripture: see petition top right: Education and science could not be more compatible, one might think. Kids learning about the natural world, how we are all made of atoms, and studying […]
Radio Interview: 6PR – School science sacrificed to scripture: 26.4.17
Interview with Oliver Peterson: 6PR Drive: 26.4.17 Brian Morris discusses the petition to stop government funding to private religious schools that teach the creationist worldview — that the bible is the “infallible and inerrant word of god”. And why the rise of pseudoscience — in this “post-truth” era — is damaging the whole foundation of […]
Media Release: School science sacrificed to scripture: 26.4.17
School science sacrificed to scripture “Celebrity physicist and cosmologist, Lawrence Krauss, headlines a national petition to stop taxpayer-funding to schools that promote a creationist view — the Bible as “the infallible and inerrant word of God,” says Brian Morris, director of Plain Reason. “Biology, geology, and a score of other sciences show that Genesis is […]
Radio Interview: 5AA – Prayer Rooms are a bad idea:
Interview with Jade Robran 5AA – 11.4.17 Brian Morris discusses Prayer Rooms, and religion within society generally: Plain Reason: promoting science, reason, and critical thinking:
Opinion: AIM: Free Speech corrupted by Religious Politics
Published on The Australian Media Network 21.3.17 Brian Morris takes on the political correctness of the Left and Right in an attempt to reopen debate on Free Speech, religion vs science, and how ‘Freedom of Religion’ has been corrupted. How do we react to the growing use of ‘trigger warnings’? This may seem an early […]
Media Release: the Bible Society and Coopers Beer
Bible ‘branding’ begs biblical backlash 15.3.17 “Atheists are likely to benefit more than the Bible Society, in its attempted ‘re-branding’ — using biblical verses on 10,000 cans of Coopers beer,” according to former publicist and director of Plain Reason, Brian Morris. “Think about it: Australia is already majority religion-neutral and beer-drinkers are right up there […]
Opinion: Daily Telegraph: Bernardi, Trump and Religious Freedom
Published: Daily Telegraph online 14.2.17 Published: Australian Independent Media Network 15.2.17 Dangerous time for the division of Church and State: Religious institutions will feel a pressing need to regain the initiative following damning revelations from the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse. With renewed calls for a parliamentary conscience vote on marriage equality — and […]
Media Release: Bernardi, Trump and Freedom of Religion
Bernardi, Trump and Freedom of Religion 13.2.17 “As Church leaders campaign for greater ‘Religious Freedom’ they will be encouraged by Cory Bernardi launching his Australian Conservative Party,” according to Brian Morris, director of the secular organisation Plain Reason. “Senator Bernardi is a Donald Trump devotee, and his Christian beliefs reflect the US President’s new-found interest […]
Opinion: Religion in Politics: new evidence
Politicians, Piety and Public Policy: Published 21.11.16: The Australian Independent Media Network Published 21.11.16: New Matilda Why politicised religion is at odds with the public mood on popular social policy There are national implications for the persistent influence that permeates our legislatures, a religious presence that now offends three-quarters of the community. It’s a political […]
Radio Interview – 3AW: Christianity embedded in society: 22.11.16
Brian Morris interview with Tom Elliott. 3AW 22.11.16 Tom Elliott wanted comment on an article about a US city which has re-named Good Friday “Spring Holiday”, to be more inclusive. My stance is that the ‘backstory’ here goes beyond Political Correctness and argues that Christianity has been embedded in Australian society since colonisation — and […]
Opinion — Wealth, Religion and Tax
Published: Australian Independent Media Network: 18.10.16 Published: New Matilda: 19.10.16 In 1587 Dr John Bridges coined the phrase “A fool and his money are soon parted”. Just fourteen years later Queen Elizabeth the First issued her 1601 Statute on Charities making “the advancement of religion” an act of ‘charity’, and free of all taxes. The […]
Opinion: Daily Telegraph – 22.9.16: Spiritual But Not Religious – the alternative view
The Daily Telegraph: 22.9.16 — SHORT version only. The Australian Independent Media Network: (AIM) 23.9.16 — FULL version. New Matilda: 23.9.16 — FULL version. Spiritual But Not Religious — an alternative view: The dust has not settled on this year’s disastrous Census yet, already, there are calls to amend the question on Religious Affiliation. While […]
Opinion: Sydney Morning Herald – 2.8.16: Census demands Honest Response
Opinion by Brian Morris: Sydney Morning Herald on 2.8.16 Rebuttal of Opinion by Rev. Michael Jensen – same edition: Census demands Honest Response: One of the basic tenets of secular ethics draws on an old adage: “honesty is the best policy”. Together with other aphorisms, flowing from the Age of Reason, it is why the […]
Radio Interview: 6PR Perth: Census demands Honest Response
Brian Morris interview with Gary Adshead, 6PR Perth, 2.8.2016 Why the Census needs to be completed with honesty; reference to the email-chains circulating nationally to “tick ‘Christian’ to stop Australia becoming a Muslim country“; also the Christian campaigns that coincidentally (or otherwise) feed off the racist emails to tick “only Christian“; Plain Reason asks people […]