Religion in Australia
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Religion in Australia is diverse. In the 2021 national census, 43.9% of Australians identified with Christianity and 38.9% declared "no religion".
St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.
Kolaia man wearing a headdress worn in a fire ceremony, Forrest River, Western Australia
Hermannsburg Aboriginal Mission, Northern Territory
Richard Johnson, the chaplain of the First Fleet
Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,
Religion in Australia
…The Christian festivals of Easter and Christmas are public holidays. The Aboriginal peoples of Australia traditionally followed a set of beliefs known as The Dreaming; some of the earliest evidence for religious practices among humans has been found in the…
Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley region of Western Australia
Landing of James Cook at Botany Bay on 29 April 1770
Tasmania's Port Arthur penal settlement is one of eleven UNESCO World Heritage-listed Australian Convict Sites.
The Big Picture, a painting by Tom Roberts, depicts the opening of the first Australian Parliament in 1901.