Modern law and religion are fundamental socio-political phenomena that share basic foundations. They aspire to constitute, or at least to frame, human consciousness and behaviour in all spheres of life. Accordingly, modern law and religion are complementary, contradictory and simultaneous sources of rule-making, adjudication and execution. Both embed obedience and obligations, leadership, institutions and legal ideology as foundations for their maintenance and prevalence, based on a strict structure of commands. Australia functions on a secular based system of law, meaning that the majority of laws have no religious influence. This however is not always the case and has led to citizen and public debate as to the objectivity of these laws.
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The faith communities that practice religion in Australia exhibit many different structures of belief, practice and organisation that frame their attitudes to life as a whole. In Australia, religion is usually associated with a belief in God, for instance, as in the major monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but can also include an awareness of the sacred, supernatural or divine, as in Buddhism, Hinduism or Taoism . Religion in Australia is diverse. In the 2011 national census, just under 70% of Australians identified to a particular religion; as this constitutes a vast majority of the population, the government must legislate issues pertaining to religion, religious laws, discrimination and …show more content…
The Australian Family Law Act 1975 inaugurated the standard of no-fault divorce. This denotes that a court does not take into account why the marriage ended. The only required criteria for a divorce is that the marriage has broken down irretrievably. The couple must have been living separately for a minimum of 12 months and one day in order to meet this requirement. Divorce proceedings can be initiated by either party to the relationship without the permission or consent of the other party. Interestingly, according the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between 1992 and 2012, the predominant gender of the divorce applicant for divorce has typically been women however since 2010 this trend is being replaced by joint
The faith communities that practice religion in Australia exhibit many different structures of belief, practice and organisation that frame their attitudes to life as a whole. In Australia, religion is usually associated with a belief in God, for instance, as in the major monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but can also include an awareness of the sacred, supernatural or divine, as in Buddhism, Hinduism or Taoism . Religion in Australia is diverse. In the 2011 national census, just under 70% of Australians identified to a particular religion; as this constitutes a vast majority of the population, the government must legislate issues pertaining to religion, religious laws, discrimination and …show more content…
The Australian Family Law Act 1975 inaugurated the standard of no-fault divorce. This denotes that a court does not take into account why the marriage ended. The only required criteria for a divorce is that the marriage has broken down irretrievably. The couple must have been living separately for a minimum of 12 months and one day in order to meet this requirement. Divorce proceedings can be initiated by either party to the relationship without the permission or consent of the other party. Interestingly, according the Australian Bureau of Statistics, between 1992 and 2012, the predominant gender of the divorce applicant for divorce has typically been women however since 2010 this trend is being replaced by joint