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Frank Brennan, SJ Bronwyn Bishop, MP
"[For] those of us who are religious citizens, it is very sensible for us to make our arguments comprehensible to those that do not have a religious viewpoint, but the days of the secular humanist playing trumps in the public forum are gone...one of the challenges for us in Australia post September 11, one reason why we haven't known how to deal with the place of Islam in the public square is that, unlike the Americans, we have not had the same robust discussion about the place of any religion in the public square." Frank Brennan, SJ
"The conscience is an accumulation of knowledge that we gather, but more particularly, an understanding of that knowledge to which we apply our discrimination to determine our position. Every topic we encounter in political and parliamentary life is a moral issue". Bronwyn Bishop, MP