Australian Governor General Michael Jeffery has praised Noahid Law, Australian Senator Eric Abetz says the Noahide Laws have "universal application", the Australian government has published opinions that Christianity and Islam are Noahide religions [even though they can both be considered "idolatry (here & here)], and one Eliana Freydel Miller told Parliament they should adopt the Noahide Laws. Australia is well on its way in recognizing the Noahide Laws.
Australian Governor General Michael Jeffery praises Noahide Law
Other world leaders have joined the call for further observance and knowledge of these laws. For example, Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Union wrote (in July, 2014) that he seeks greater “dissemination of the universal values known as the Noahide Laws,” and Major General Michael Jeffery, Governor General of Australia, lamenting family breakdowns and drug and alcohol abuse in modern society in a 2008 letter, wrote that he believed that observing the fundamental values of the Noahide Laws can be an antidote to such ills of society.
SOURCE: “Have the Noahide Laws been recognized by any governments?”. Ask Noah. Retrieved 10/07/2020 from: https://asknoah.org/faq/have-the-noahide-laws-been-recognized-by-any-governments
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Australian senator says Noahide Laws have "universal application"
Senator Eric Abetz delivered the following address on the occasion of the launch of Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen’s new book, The Theory and Practice of Universal Ethics: The Noahide Laws, on November 16, 2015, at the Jewish Russian Community Centre, Balaclava, Victoria.
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Now, out of this diversity Rabbi Dr Cowen has extracted ethics that have a very wide or universal application. Over 75 per cent of the world’s population have adopted religions that reach back to the Noahide laws, which provides a commonality among them.
SOURCE: Senator Eric Abetz (2015). "ETHICS BOOK TRACES FOUNDATIONS OF TRUE CIVILISATION". National Civic Council. Retrieved 10/07/2020 from: https://ncc.org.au/uncategorized/57184-ethics-book-traces-foundations-of-true-civilisation/
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Christianity and Islam are Noahide religions
Fundamental elements of religious freedom are the legal entitlement to beliefs, responsibilities and behaviours while exercising the normal rights to founding a family and a home. In the Australian legal, political and cultural environment, the freedom of religion, includes the reasonable public expression of universal religious teaching of heterosexual marriage, universal here indicating that it is substantially supported by the three Noahide religions of Christian, Jewish and Muslim, as well as by many other community religions, eg Sikh. It is undeniably a fundamental religious obligation of many such adherents to publicly espouse their beliefs.
SOURCE: GERARD FLOOD (2018). "Submission number: 11352". Australian Government: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 14th February 2018. Retrieved 10/07/2020 from: https://www.pmc.gov.au/domestic-policy/religious-freedom-review/submissions/gerard-flood
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Adoption of the Noahide Laws advocated in Australian Parliament
8.54 Ms Eliana Freydel Miller advocated the adoption of the Universal Laws of Ethics and Morality:
recognition of God as Sole Creator and Sovereign Ruler of the Universe, and the prohibition of idolatry;
prohibition of blasphemy;
prohibition of murder;
prohibition of incest, adultery and all forms of immorality;
prohibition of theft;
establishment of courts of justice, and
prohibition of the taking or eating from an animal while it is still alive.
8.55 Ms Miller saw these as laws of human decency for righteous humanity, given by God. They are valid for all time, but are rarely stated. She believed that Australia should be instrumental in the making of an historical and positive choice, promoting in schools and universities the teaching of the ethics and morality of these Laws.40FOOTNOTE 40: Submissions, p. 807. These are also known as the 'Seven Universal Noahide Laws'.
SOURCE: "Conviction with Compassion: A Report on Freedom of Religion and Belief". Parlament of Australia. Retrieved 10/07/2020 from: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Completed_Inquiries/jfadt/Religion/Relch_8
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