Never afraid to talk about his personal Christian faith, Scott Morrison used his valedictory address to Parliament this week to call for the nation to return to its Judaeo-Christian roots.

That is obviously a good and necessary thing if Australia is to find a way out of its current cultural and political mess, something even The Australian’s Paul Kelly acknowledged.

‘We stand on the values that built our successful, free society,’ Morrison told the House.

‘All of these stem from the core principle of respect for individual human dignity, as does representative democracy and even a market-based capitalist economy.