Do Australians still agree on enough fundamental values to hold society together?

On this week’s Afternoon Light Georgina Downer speaks with Perter Kurti from the Centre for Independent Studies, to ponder how Australia’s democratic and social cohesion can survive our increasing pluralism and historically high immigration rate. Exploring whether there remain enough common threads to bind us together as a nation.

Reverend Peter Kurti is Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at the Centre for Independent Studies and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or editor of a number of books and has written extensively about issues of religion, liberty, and civil society in Australia. He appears frequently as a columnist and as a commentator on television and radio. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an ordained minister in the Anglican Church of Australia. In June of 2025 he released The ties that bind: Reconciling value pluralism and national identity.