The troubling power of Australia’s Christian nationalist movement

Encoded in the recent debate about Pauline Hanson’s calls to preserve “monoculture” is the argument that Australia is a Christian country and that non-Christian ethnicities and religions are the “other”. As the One Nation leader said in his Press Club speech in June, “We are a predominantly Judeo-Christian society. It is time for us to wake up. Western civilization and values ​​are under siege.”

Religious nationalism holds that a nation’s values, laws, and society should reflect the religious belief system of the majority of the society.