The Secular Spotlight Blog
Catch up on the latest secular news with the NSL’s Weekend Wrap for 31 January 2021.
As we say goodbye to 2020, we want to leave you with this video of what we think was possibly the best pro-secular speech in Australian politics this year!
Catch up on the latest secular news with the NSL’s Weekend Wrap for 20 December 2020.
In looking back on the past 12 months, the thing we’re most proud of is having put ‘secularism’ back on the lips of politicians.
Catch up on the latest secular news with the NSL’s Weekend Wrap for 13 December 2020.
Councillor Anthony Marsh’s motion to replace the prayer with a secular pledge for councillors to act in the best interests of the community has triumphed.
At tonight’s Mornington Peninsula Shire meeting, Councillor Anthony Marsh will seek to remove “exclusionary” Christian prayers from the official proceedings of council meetings.
Catch up on the latest secular news with the NSL’s Weekend Wrap for 6 December 2020.
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 29 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”.