Reverend Peter Kurti

Adjunct Associate Professor
FRSA, LL.B, M.Th

Email: peter.kurti@nd.edu.au
Phone: 8204 4400

• Biography

  Peter Kurti is Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at the Centre for Independent Studies. 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.

• Books

  • Peter Kurti (Editor), Beneath the Southern Cross: Looking for Australia in the 21st Century, (Connor Court: Redland Bay, QLD, 2024)
  • Peter Kurti & Warren Mundine (editors), Beyond Belief: Rethinking the Voice to Parliament, (Connor Court: Redland Bay, QLD, 2022)
  • Peter Kurti, Euthanasia: Seven Questions about Voluntary Assisted Dying, (Connor Court: Redland Bay, QLD, 2022)
  • James Allan and Peter Kurti (editors), Keeping Australia Right (Connor Court: Redland Bay, QLD, 2020)
  • Peter Kurti, Sacred & Profane: Faith and belief in a secular society (Connor Court: Redland Bay, QLD, 2020)
  • Robert Forsyth and Peter Kurti (editors), Forgotten Freedom No More: Protecting Religious Liberty in Australia - Analysis and Perspectives, (Connor Court: Redland Bay, QLD, 2020)
  • Peter Kurti, The Tyranny of Tolerance: Threats to Religious Liberty in Australia (Connor Court: Redland Bay QLD, 2017)
  • Peter Kurti, Euthanasia: Putting the Culture to Death? (Connor Court: Redland Bay QLD, 2018)

• Book chapters

  • Peter Kurti, “Critical Theory, Wokeshevism and the Chasm of Incoherence”, in Augusto Zimmermann and Joshua Forrester (editors), Wokeshevism: Critical Theories and the Tyrant Left, (Connor Court, Redland Bay, QLD, 2023).
  • “Religious Liberty: A Forgotten Freedom?”, in Iain T. Benson, Michael Quinlan, and A. Keith Thompson (eds.), Religious Freedom in Australia – a new Terra Nullius, (Connor Court: Redland Bay QLD, 2019)
  • “A Fundamental Right under Threat” in Damien Freeman (ed.) Today’s Tyrants: Responding to Dyson Heydon (Kapunda Press: Redland Bay, QLD, 2018)
  • "Religion and the New Sectarianism" in James Allen (ed.) Making Australia Right (Connor Court: Redland Bay QLD, 2017)

• Journal articles

  • Why Dignity Is a Poor Reason to Legalise Assisted Suicide,  riffith Journal of Law and Human Dignity Vol. 6 No. 2 (2018) https://griffithlawjournal.org/index.php/gjlhd/article/view/1127