Majdali, Kameel2019-09-252019-09-252016-04-1320030118-8534http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/236906"While Australia’s background as a penal colony is very well known, what may not be so clear is that there has been a conspicuous, even dominant, Christian presence in this land, beginning with the First Fleet of 1788. One of the ironies of the Australian psyche is that there is both an anti-authority mindset yet a strong Christian underpinning. Even with a strongly sterile secularism in today’s culture, around sixty seven percent of Australians identify themselves as “Christian.”engWith permission of the license/copyright holderLeadershipChristiansecularismcultureChurchCultural ethicsCultural/intercultural ethicsSecularisation and ethicsGlobal Church History and World ChristianityWorld ChristianityArticle