Hear, hear and well said, Graham Y!

Take care and stay safe.
Alan B.

One might consider the growing attraction to being ‘Christian’ vis politicians which may lay in the possible false assumption these people are actually religious at all.

It may just be they understand there are votes to be had if you pretend and pander to this dwindling percentage of the population. There are still enough votes which may decide who wins or loses a seat. Validity of this is probable given the craven nature of modern politicians.
Galen

"It may just be they understand there are votes to be had if you pretend and pander to this dwindling percentage of the population".

The most important percentage of the population to pander to is the MAJORITY. Galen wouldn't be a successful politician if that was his tactic.

Galen: Sadly, have to believe you're right on the money with the political analysis.

Q: How do we know when a politician is telling great big pork pies?
A: When his/her lips move.

And it now these folk who are the filter of alleged medical information, regarding the pandemic! And not assisted by the media, the thirty-second sound bite, sloganisms and sensationalising everything to the enth degree!

Take care and stay safe.
Alan B.

Alan, yes, spot on.

And now we have those same pollies helicoptering tax pay money to all and sundry just to try to keep our corrupt and ever closer kleptocracy in the money for a little longer.

When it’s broken, and it is broken, why waste our billions on a dying horse.

Build a new one, savings banks separate from investment banks, remove one tier of government, stop subsidies to uneconomic entities, go nuclear and invest in infrastructure which builds the nation.

Maintain the separation of church and state, abolish the Lord’s Prayer in parliament and get on with governing for the people, not corporations and also ban political donations other than from individuals and limited to $500 and one time only per election cycle.

That would be a good start. You stay safe also.
Galen

A fascinating cross-section of opinions on show here. Not very enlightened, most of them. And off the point again, as usual.
There is a world-view which competes with that known as 'religious'. Include all religions you care to name in that term. I have no argument with peoples' right to believe in whatever they want to. My own 'religion' is reason, or the evidence of the senses.
I agree that the Judeo-Christian system of shared ethics has a role to play in Australian life, but as I have tried to explain, secular means separation of religious belief from the mechanics of government. So ask yourself whether Andrews' bill was good for the country, or good for his personal sense of grace.
I know the arguments he, and others will use, because I was educated by the Christian Brothers. I still don't think it is a duty of the state to interfere with a citizen's right to choose to die if their suffering is too great to bear. And I would guess the writers expressing approval of Andrews' position have not been in unbearable pain, or someone very close to them has not. And finally, 87% of Australians disagree with you.