National Secular Lobby
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<p>The National Secular Lobby advocates for separation of church and state in Australian legislation and the removal of undue religious influence at all levels of government.</p>
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Post #4497825
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has asked the national charities regulator to consider barring hate preachers, people who spread bigotry and serious criminals from running registered charities — and the response has put religious privilege in the frame. ACNC chief Susan Woodward says the same standards should apply to all charities: religious charities currently enjoy extra exemptions, and the ACNC is wholly barred from removing the 'responsible person' of a rel...
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Post #4099682
Parliaments are still in winter recess, but the week produced something rarer than a bill: a retreat. After weeks of public pressure and court action, Edmund Rice Education Australia — the entity gifted hundreds of millions of dollars in Christian Brothers property for $1 a time — agreed on Friday to compensate abuse survivors "in full", assume liability for current and future claims, and consent to replacing the Christian Brothers as defendant. The order had pleaded poverty; the asset...
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Post #3733921
The Christian Brothers says it's broke and cannot pay the survivors its abuse created. The documents say otherwise. Land titles obtained by the Guardian show it has housed convicted child sex offenders on its own property — including one who preyed on orphans, and one kept in schools for almost thirty years after officials were first warned. Survivors have gone to the Victorian Supreme Court to pursue Edmund Rice Education Australia instead: the entity that took the order's property for...
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Post #2252800
The Rationalist Society of Australia has called on crossbench MPs and senators to protect the integrity of the Australian Bureau of Statistics&#39; census question development process following deeply concerning revelations about political interference. The ABS cancelled a large-scale 2024 test of an improved religion question after a coordinated lobbying campaign by Catholic Church leaders and the Albanese government&#39;s failure to meet its own deadlines. FOI documents show the ABS h...