Elisabeth Taylor graduated with first class honours in History from Sydney University. She is a Commonwealth scholar and holds a PhD from Cambridge University, where she researched the religious lives of 12th century women. As Director of Research for the Australian Christian Lobby and now as an independent writer and speaker, Elisabeth’s work has ranged over a number of questions at issue in the contemporary political conversation including freedom of religion, freedom of speech, pornography, comprehensive sexuality education and euthanasia. As an historian of ideas, Elisabeth has focused particularly on the ideological drivers impelling modern political and cultural change and their impact on the family and democracy, more broadly.