John Hunter the captain of HMS Sirius in the First Fleet was a former Church of Scotland minister.

[5] Much of the 30% who did not join the Uniting Church did not agree with its liberal views, although a number remained because of cultural connections.

In 1991 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Australia repealed the approval of the ordination of women.

The church is active in missions with about 130 missionaries working around the world, including Korea, the Pacific and Myanmar.

Ministers and elders of the Presbyterian Church of Australia are required to agree to the Westminster Confession of Faith as their subordinate authority under the Bible.

The Presbyterian Church is a Reformed and Evangelical denomination whose understanding of Christianity is set out in the Westminster Confession of Faith.

We see ourselves as forming one small part of the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ and we seek to have fellowship wherever we can with fellow Christians who share with us a common loyalty to 'the faith that was once and for all delivered to the saints' (Jude verse 3).

Only ordained ministers may preside at Communion, or the Lord's Supper, except in the rare circumstance where the presbytery licenses a ruling elder to do so.

[14] The minister and an elder from each parish have a seat at their regional presbytery and at their state's general assembly.

[15] In 1991, the PCA's General Assembly of Australia determined that only men are "eligible for admission to the Ministry of Word and Sacraments."

[16] Current ministers in the Presbyterian Church of Australia include Allan Harman, Iain Murray and Bruce W. Winter.

Notable former ministers of the PCA include Peter Cameron, who was charged with heresy in 1993 and subsequently excommunicated.