Marriage and religion are both on the nose in Australia, apparently. The SMH tells us the figure may be as low as 4.5 marriages per 1000 Australians, down from 8.0 in the 1970s. To boot, in 2016 just 23.6 per cent of marriages were conducted by a minister of religion, down from over 50 per cent in 1996. The new same-sex marriage laws may provide a temporary boost to at least the first of these figures…
