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Reporter Quentin McDermott talks to men and women who were members of an elite unit inside the Church in Australia and the United States.

The Australian Collaboration

Changing religious affiliations

According to the ABS, in 1901, the year of Federation, 40 per cent of the Australian population identified themselves as Anglican, 23 per cent as Catholic and 34 per cent as ‘other Christian’. Approximately 1 per cent identified themselves as ‘non-Christian’. Similarly, the first census in 1911 showed that 96 per cent of Australians identified themselves as Christian.