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About 15,000 people are converging on a regional Australian town for one of the country's most popular Sikh sporting events, but with food a central ingredient to the cultural event, a mammoth effort is underway to feed everybody … for free.

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Source: ABC

For the first time, fewer than half of Australians identified as Christian, though Christianity remained the nation's most common religion (declared by 43.9 per cent of the population).

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Source: ABC

Fatima Payman has won Western Australia's sixth and final Senate seat, becoming the first Afghan-Australian and the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman in parliament. A former refugee from Afghanistan, Ms Payman's victory comes on World Refugee Day.

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Source: SBS

The Albanese Labor government is moving to dump the compulsory religious element of the national school chaplaincy program.

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Source: news.com.au

Politicians, community and faith leaders from across Victoria have come together at a mosque east of Melbourne to show their support after the prayer hall was allegedly vandalised.

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Source: SBS

Women religious, or nuns, made education more accessible. Their way of life also offered one of few leadership opportunities for women.

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Source: The Conversation

Victorians who intentionally display the Nazi swastika (Hakenkreuz) face penalties of up to nearly $22,000, 12 months in jail, or both.

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Source: SBS

The initiative will ensure "our faith-based institutions will have a voice around the table", Minister for Multiculturalism Mark Coure said while making the funding announcement in Sydney.

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Source: SBS