What will a Mark McGowan landslide mean for religious freedom?

This Saturday, West Australians go to the polls. All the indications are that the McGowan Labor government will be re-elected in a landslide. Opposition leader Zak Kirkup has already meekly given the election away, instead focussing on a theme of ensuring the ALP does not control both houses of the State Parliament, and the threat this will pose for democracy. 

While this author agrees with Mark Imisides’ piece in these pages last week that throwing in the towel should never be an option, WA voters need look no further than Victoria for the consequences of what can happen when a government has total control of the parliament. Christians should be especially worried, since the policies of the McGowan government are very…