Why the churches lobby is still so powerful in Canberra

<p>Some of Australia’s most powerful religious bodies have taken aim at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and also the Greens – accusing them of threatening the future of religious freedom.</p><p>But the cause of this backlash is simply the possibility that the government would work with the Greens to reform a 40-year-old loophole in our discrimination laws.</p><p>So, what’s really at stake? And is there about to be a showdown between religious lobbies and the prime minister?</p><p>Today, national correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe, on religion’s influence in Canberra and the polit...