The Secular Spotlight Blog
As a newly elected councillor to the Mornington Peninsula Shire, actor Paul Mercurio is taking a stand against the Council’s prayer ritual.
Catch up on the latest secular news with the NSL’s Weekend Wrap for 15 November 2020.
Councillor Kaye Gartner from Shoalhaven City Council, barred from reciting a Buddhist prayer at a council meeting, says they now face a test on the “real value of religious freedom”.
With loss of the religious vote supposedly a factor in their 2019 election loss, Labor is updating its policy platform to placate pro-religious groups.
Catch up on the latest secular news with the NSL’s Weekend Wrap for 15 November 2020.
In the upper house of the New South Wales parliament last week, Greens MP Abigail Boyd made a plea for the Lord’s Prayer to be replaced with something more inclusive and representative of all people.
In this ‘My View’ opinion piece on our ‘Secular Spotlight’ blog, National Secular Lobby president Peter Monk writes that, with widespread support to VAD, even among most people of faith, the re-elected Premier must keep her promise.
Catch up on the latest secular news with the NSL’s Weekend Wrap for 15 November 2020.
In a census of permanent ADF personnel taken in 2019 and released by the Department of Defence today, 56% of personnel identified as not having a religion.
Greens MP Abigail Boyd has today spearheaded an effort to remove the Lord’s Prayer from the proceedings of the Legislative Council in the New South Wales parliament.
Councillors and residents of minority faiths or non-religious beliefs are being forced to observe Christian-only prayers as part of official meetings at Shoalhaven City Council after a recent spat broke out on the issue.
Catch up on the latest secular news with the NSL’s Weekend Wrap for 8 November 2020.