For all the Muslims and communists who keep claiming that Australia was founded as a secular state detached from Christian belief - you are wrong. "Whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Constitution hereby established…" Australia was formed by a people who identified as Christian, petitioned for God to be acknowledged in their founding document, and inherited English law and institutions shaped by the biblical moral order that Christianity retained. That is the historical record. Claims that the Constitution was written as a purely procedural secular instrument is a political manipulation, not what the conventions, the census, or the framers show. The 1901 census, taken in the year of Federation, recorded Australia's population as 96-97.5% Christian. The largest groups were Church of England, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Presbyterian. Non-Christian minorities were small. This was the society that voted on the Constitution and whose churches organised the petitions that shaped the preamble. Church bodies collected tens of thousands of signatures calling for recognition that God is the supreme source of law and authority. The Melbourne session of the 1898 Convention responded. Patrick Glynn moved the insertion of the words that still open the preamble: the people of the colonies united “humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God.” Those words were not decorative. They reflected the view of the people who had petitioned and of the delegates who accepted them. The framers themselves said: Sir Henry Parkes, the “Father of Federation,” wrote in 1885: “We are pre-eminently a Christian people - as our laws, our whole system of jurisprudence, our Constitution… are based upon and interwoven with our Christian belief.” Sir John Downer, a South Australian delegate and member of the drafting committee, told the Melbourne Convention that “the Christian religion is a portion of the English Constitution” and “part of the law of England which I should think we undoubtedly brought with us when we settled in these colonies,” so that the Commonwealth would be “from its first stage a Christian Commonwealth.” Alfred Deakin treated the whole process as providential and prayed that Federation would foster “a Christlike citizenship.” Glynn described religion as the bond that gives unity and tone to society, not merely the force of law. These were not fringe opinions. They were the assumptions of leading framers working inside a Christian population. Australia received the English common law. That law had long treated Christianity as part of the legal order. Colonial courts stated the point plainly. In Ex parte Thackeray (1874) the New South Wales Supreme Court held that the colonists brought with them the maxim that “Christianity is part and parcel of our general laws” and that “all the revealed or divine law, so far as enacted by the Holy Scripture to be of universal obligation, is part of our colonial law.” The “revealed or divine law” of universal obligation is the biblical framework Christianity inherited from the Hebrew Scriptures - the Ten Commandments and the related teaching on the dignity of persons, justice, the accountability of rulers to a higher law, and the restraints on murder, theft, false witness and adultery. These were the ordinary moral assumptions of the criminal law, the protection of life and property, and the idea that government is limited because it stands under a higher authority. They were not copied clause by clause into the Constitution; they were the background against which the Constitution was written. The framers also drew on the American Constitution, especially for federalism and the religion clause that became section 116. The American founders were themselves operating inside a Christian, specifically Judeo-Christian, moral framework. They grounded natural rights in the Creator, limited government because power is dangerous, and separated institutions so that no single arm could claim absolute authority. Section 116 limits the new federal Parliament’s power to establish a religion or prohibit free exercise. It protects liberty of conscience; it does not erase the Christian character of the society or the biblical moral order already embedded in the common law. Both documents were written by people who took that order as given. Democracy, individual freedoms, limited government and the separation of institutions did not arise in a moral vacuum. They developed in societies that had absorbed the biblical teaching that every person has dignity, that rulers are accountable, and that there are restraints on power that no majority or official can simply ignore. Australia’s Constitution is the product of English institutions and law carrying that inheritance, combined with American federal and rights-protection ideas that rested on the same foundation, and written for a people who were overwhelmingly Christian and who insisted that God be acknowledged in the preamble. The text of the Constitution Act, the Convention debates, Parkes’s statement, Downer’s intervention, Glynn’s motion, the petitions, and the 1901 census are the primary sources. They show a Christian society writing a Constitution inside the moral and legal order it had inherited, not a secular instrument detached from that order. Anyone who has an issue with it is welcome to leave.