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FIRIS is a parent group advocating sectarian 'special' religious 'education' be held outside formal teaching time & the NSCP be dismantled
NSW & Victoria, Australia
Joined March 2011
"remove RI [eg. SRE] from govt schools altogether so that they are truly secular and inclusive, as was intended when govt schools were first established in the 1870s. There's no real need to replace RI [SRE] with any alternative program." #nswpol #qldpol
pesaagora.com
A meeting place of ideas in philosophy, education and culture in our world today.
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“Western Australian public schools are educating the overwhelming majority of children, yet they are doing so without the benefit of a guaranteed Commonwealth capital funding stream." #auspol
https://t.co/q5C2AH7nRl
watoday.com.au
The latest figures on capital works spending were revealed in a new report from the Australian Education Union.
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Girls try extremely hard to avoid misogynistic content online. And yet they're bombarded with it. We need to recognise that this is a business decision by the platforms, not a technical problem. It is, however, a cultural, legal and moral problem. https://t.co/645RTL8EQR
theguardian.com
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
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Australians: John Howard insisted public schools display a poster of ‘Values’ and instituted the school chaplaincy program when he was PM. Now it seems the US Christian right is trying to follow his example.
Maher: So being Christian is an important part of being truly American? Boebert: Absolutely @JamesTalarico: As a Christian, I was taught that we're supposed to follow Jesus' two commandments — love God and love neighbor. There was no exception to that second commandment. Love
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Styled the Keep Proselytizing Out of Public Schools (KPOP) Act, or less whimsically the Student Secular Bill of Rights (SSBOR), the model bill seeks to codify long-standing Establishment Clause case law into state statutes. https://t.co/3bIYzwh3uC
ncse.ngo
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An eight-year-old Australian girl with rotten teeth, trapped in a desert camp, did not make her own bed https://t.co/eXVFye1Ugy Well said Mat Tinkler. It’s just wrong to condemn the because of the imposed decisions of dead fathers. Even if surviving mothers agreed at the time.
theage.com.au
When I travelled to Roj camp in 2022 I looked into the eyes of a girl whose frame was so small and frail that she looked much younger than my own daughter, who was five at the time. She was showing...
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The failed Job Ready Graduates scheme has now been in place for longer under Labor than the Morrison Government. Not only is it lumping students with $50k+ degrees, it's also creating a segregated higher education system where increasingly it's only students from wealthy
theguardian.com
Experts say the Morrison-era Job-ready Graduates scheme has instead had a ‘devastating impact’ on the very people higher education needs to serve
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BREAKING🚨: For the first time since 1863, Ramadan, Lent, and Lunar New Year are all taking place at the same time 🤯 An exceptional event that will only happen again in 2189.
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‘Reminiscent of Trump’s America’: Labor faithful condemn protest response
smh.com.au
Concerns are growing among rank-and-file members over the response to last week’s violent rally and the government’s protest laws.
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A senior minister in a government which has just passed hate speech laws - the Minister for Home Affairs, no less - begging a bigot to apologise is pathetic. Also not worthy of someone who holds public office. #auspol #nswpol
I will not repeat her words, but last night and today's comments from Pauline Hanson are wrong and cruel. They are comments not worthy of someone who holds public office. Please just apologise.
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The most religiously diverse countries 1 Singapore 2 Suriname 3 Taiwan 4 S Korea 9 Australia 10 France 11 Canada 12 UK 16 NZ 20 Germany 24 Japan 32 US 34 Nigeria 78 India 83 Brazil 126 China 160 Egypt 201 Yemen https://t.co/Az5qGkTanO
Religious Diversity Around the World https://t.co/150n3YYhzO
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No place of worship or religious setting is immune from spiritual abuse. Know the signs.
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Down 29% from 2024, and 43% down from the peak towards the end of the last Coalition government. 60% of the 306k is backpackers, tourist and students here for a year. Sorry to ruin your narrative
Net migration was at 306,000 last year – that’s mass immigration.
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"While there were Australian Jewish people who sought comfort from “their head of state”, there were also Australian Jewish people who found community in people protesting the invitation while Palestinians are still being killed by Israeli forces." https://t.co/G2fa33DJjb
thepoint.com.au
Australians have been lectured a lot in the past couple of years about social cohesion, but it reached a fever pitch this week in response to protests against the visit by Israel’s head of state.
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Populist politics, aimed to tap into the deep fears of Australians feeling left behind. Really disappointing.
Lebanon, Palestine & Philippines among prohibited countries under draft coalition plan. Lebanese Australians have played a significant role in post WW2 rebuild. Philippines is 5th on migration ladder currently and is a crucial feature of health workforce.
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The enemy isn’t immigrants. The enemy is politicians telling us the enemy is immigrants.
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Giving church bodies a formal sign-off role on a new RE curriculum can only further undermine this subject's credibility. The level of control that religious groups have over religious education across the UK is educationally inappropriate. https://t.co/CDtdhYf42o
humanists.uk
Concerns have been raised by Northern Ireland Humanists of continued religious influence on the RE syllabus following the publication of the Department of Education (DoE)’s updated Terms of Reference...
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