Small thread here as "But Secularism" is in the news and Australia has always been a pluralist not a secular nation. We share the British Crown & most of our constitutional origins plus referenda from Swiss & federalism from the Americans - but non republique from the French https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1386965298981466112

I may add to this thread but the upshot of it was that Australia is federated & a constitutional compact made in the 1890s on explicit understandings of the place of the Almighty and of the pluralistic freedoms of the faithful (and those of other & no faiths)

Australia is the ultimate 'diversity experiment' of an immigrant nation where almost everyone descends from origins somewhere else. One of the reasons we have been so harmonious a country is we politely accommodate our differences esp of religion/no religion.