The 2026 Census Will Show Australians Are Still Turning Away From Christianity
In the 2021 Australian Census, 9,886,957 people (or 38.9% of the population) ticked “no religion.”
The population selecting no religious affiliation grew from roughly 7 million people in 2016 to nearly 9.9 million people in 2021.
Australians identifying as “no religion” rose to 38.9% from 30.1% at the 2016 census and 22.3% in 2011 – an increase of 16.6% in a decade.
The data indicates a massive, multi-generational shift away from Christianity in Australia.
For the first time in Australian Census history, the 2021 results revealed that fewer than half of all Australians (43.9%) identify as Christian, a steep drop from 52.1% in 2016 and 61.1% in 2011.
Fifty years ago, in 1971, that figure was 86.2%.
The implications of this are massive, especially when growing populations who practice expansionist, proselytizing religions such as Islam are filling the void.
We can fully expect to see the Muslim population reach 1.2 million and 4.3% of Australia’s population in this year’s census.
It has been roughly doubling every decade, and Shady Alsuleiman, president of the Australian National Imams Council, has been rejoicing at the trend.
“We as a Muslim community, right now, according to the pattern and the trend, we double every 11-12 years,” he said on a podcast in 2025.
“We need to be a part of the decision making,” he said.
“Halal, for example, hijab, for example, masajid [mosques], for example. We need to plan for the next 50-100 years.”
Conversely, Sydney Catholic Schools’ manager and Network Catholic Identity, Dr. Robert Haddad, said overall the religious affiliation numbers for the 2021 Census make very “disturbing reading.”
He said the huge increase in the number of those describing themselves as “no religion” evidences that we are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of upcoming “millennials.”
“For the second census in a row, the number of Catholics has fallen both as a raw number and as a percentage of the Australian population,” he said.
“Unless something dramatic is done, we Catholics and Christians in general, run the risk of becoming an aging and shrinking minority in our own country, putting at further risk our religious freedoms. However, we must resist any temptation to fall back into the ‘bunkerm’ and redouble our efforts to evangelize the culture and emerging generations. We have to promote the faith in ways that are faithful, relevant and joyful all at the same time, which is not an easy task, but definitely a necessary one.”
So what will Australia’s 2026 Census reveal? At this point, the outcome seems painfully predictable.
A further shunning of the foundational pillar of Christianity sounds another death knell for Australia.
How responsible is the Royal Commission into Institutionalized Child Sexual Abuse for the movement away from Catholicism and Christianity? I have no doubt there is a correlation, as there should be.
My concern is that as Aussies turn farther from God, they will gravitate toward wokeism and antisemitism, both of which run hand in hand with godlessness.
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