About sharia. There is no chance that the more horrible applications of sharia (stonings, beheadings and whippings for example) could legally be applied in Australia, even if Australian muslims wanted them which I rather doubt many of them do. What sharia could do is for example provide councils that could adjudicate in the case of women who had obtained a divorce from their husbands in court, and wished to be able to remarry in their religion. In other words sharia could provide a way to peacefully reconcile muslim tradition and secular law.