{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F336a39ea-57de-4ae6-affb-0ab83eaf63a0","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Episode 205 \u2013 Peter Monk from the NSL","description":"Lots of secular and religious news in this episode.
\n2:27 The National Secular Lobby
\nWe start off by interviewing\u00a0 Peter Monk, the president of the National Secular Lobby.
\n31:59\u00a0 Metcalfe’s Law
\nThe secular community needs to apply Metcalfe’s Law.
\nMetcalfe’s law\u00a0states the effect of a\u00a0telecommunications network\u00a0is\u00a0proportional to the square\u00a0of the number of connected users of the system (n2).
\nThe law has often been illustrated using the example of fax machines: a single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because the total number of people with whom each user may send and receive documents increases. Likewise, in social networks, the greater number of users with the service, the more valuable the service becomes to the community.
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\n35:19\u00a0 \u00a0This Labor Opposition Could Roll Over on Religious Privilege
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\nFrom The Australian:
\nAnthony Albanese is under pressure from frontbench Labor MPs to \u201cwork constructively\u201d with Scott Morrison to pass religious freedom legislation that enshrines the right of schools and charities to teach faith-based ideology, including the traditional view of marriage.
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\nSenior Labor MPs yesterday warned that the swing against the party in faith-based communities \u2014 mainly in western Sydney seats \u2014 had galvanised support in the new Opposition Leader\u2019s party room for new laws to protect \u00adreligious institutions from being accused of discrimination.
\nSenator Keneally, Labor\u2019s new deputy leader in the upper house, savaged Labor\u2019s campaign as being \u201ctone deaf\u201d to the concerns of religious people. \u201cWe lost them on the more traditional, touchstone culture and social issues,\u201d Senator Keneally said. \u201cI think it is because we were tone deaf. If you take the issue of religious freedom, I see a growing concern of people of faith that in this Twitter world, the instant response world we live in, that they are going to be ganged up upon.
\nMr Bowen told The Weekend Australian that anxieties within religious communities had contributed to Labor\u2019s election loss. The former Treasury spokesman … urged the Prime Minister to bring forward legislation on religious freedoms quickly so it could be considered by Labor. \u201cThe Labor Party has a strong tradition of people who are socially conservative but economically progressive and we have got to make sure that tradition continues to be represented both in our party and our voters,\u201d Mr Bowen said.
\nVictorian Labor MP Anthony Byrne, a social conservative, said the party was creating the perception that it did not welcome people of faith.\u00a0\u201cWe are creating a perception that for people of Christian and other faiths that the Labor Party doesn\u2019t have a place for them on the table, doesn\u2019t want to hear their views, doesn\u2019t want to take their beliefs into account,\u201d Mr Byrne said.
\n39:56 The Sunday Mail
\nPage 1 – Shesus! Catholic schools are going gender neutral. More on page 7
\nPage 11 – An article regarding the upcoming Religious Discrimination Act
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