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The Rationalist Society of Australia has asked the Prime Minister to confirm what his response was to the Catholic bishops’ request in 2024 for him to “reverse” the proposed changes to the Census religion question. In a letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last month, the RSA asked what his response had been to the […] The post RSA questions Prime Minister over his response to bishops’ Census…
The Rationalist Society of Australia welcomes a Victorian parliamentary committee’s call for new laws to address coercive control in high-control groups and for reform of federal charities laws to ensure greater accountability of such groups. On Wednesday, the Legislative Assembly’s Legal and Social Issues Committee published the report for its inquiry into the recruitment methods […] The post RSA…
The Rationalist Society of Australia is urging delegates at the Labor Party’s national conference this week to make changes to the policy platform to support collecting “accurate” data about population demographics, including on religion. The party’s draft policy being presented to the conference includes a statement that Labor believes in collecting “reliable data collection”, including […] The…
Almost two per cent of rates collected at an inner-city Melbourne council is subsidising religion and private schools in what one councillor has described as an “unjust burden on ratepayers”. At a meeting of the Boroondara council late last month, Councillor Rob Baillieu (pictured) sought to table a confidential council report that detailed the cost […] The post Subsidisation of religious sites…
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has blamed a “system error” in the software that it uses to redact documents for having blocked damning information about the religion question being used at this year’s Census. Last month, the ABS provided an explanation after the Rationalist Society of Australia (RSA) complained that the statistics agency had wrongly […] The post ABS blames “system error” for…
Teaching practices associated with indoctrination, such as an emphasis on lower-order thinking and emotional manipulation, are prevalent in religious instruction curricula used in Australian public primary schools, new research shows. In a newly published journal article, Dr Jennifer Bleazby, a Senior Lecturer at Monash University’s School of Education, reports her findings from an analysis of…
Premier Roger Cook has claimed the West Australian Parliament is “not a workplace” to justify the practice of imposing daily Christian worship on the growing number of MPs who want the practice gone. In responding to a proposal for replacing Christian prayers in the House of Assembly with a more inclusive opening practice, Mr Cook […] The post Premier Cook argues parliament a “special institution”…
Australia’s Catholic bishops wrote to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese asking him to intervene and “reverse” proposed changes to the Census religion question, the Rationalist Society of Australia can reveal. Under freedom of information (FOI) laws, the Rationalist Society of Australia has obtained copies of the letters that the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) sent to […] The post…
