Coalition split over religious discrimination bill with one MP having ‘serious concerns’ over Folau clause

Michaelia Cash in urgent meetings with MPs in government's third attempt at revising bill

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Coalition MPs are split over the government's revised religious discrimination bill, with the attorney general, Michaelia Cash, holding urgent meetings with MPs before parliament returns to try to resolve the issue.

The push to introduce a bill in the final sitting fortnight this year comes almost three years after the prime minister, Scott Morrison, promised to introduce a new religious discrimination act after a review into religious freedom undertaken by Philip Ruddock in 2018.