Weekend Wrap for 19 December 2021
Welcome to the NSL Weekend Wrap for 19 December 2021, where you can catch up on the latest secular-related news from around the country.
This is our last Wrap for 2021 before we take a break over the Christmas and New Year period. We hope you'll re-join us again in a few weeks' time.
In the mean time, we will continue to be active on social media.
The NSL is part of the #DontDivideUs campaign against the Religious Discrimination Bill. Learn more about the campaign here and please consider making a donation to support it if you are able.
At the National Level
Just.Equal Australia and PFLAG Australia have called on supporters of LGBTIQ+ equality to join the campaign against the Religious Discrimination Bill by sending submissions to the two current inquiries into the Bill. The two groups have partnered to establish the Equality not Discrimination campaign website that allows opponents of the Religious Discrimination bill to send an email to both inquiries with the click of a button. (Out in Perth)
Around the Country
Commentary and Analysis
Events and Advisories
Just.Equal and PFLAG Australia are running a joint campaign against the Religious Discrimination Bill, including offering a tool to ease the task of making submissions to both parliamentary inquiries.
Just.Equal are running a campaign against the Religious Discrimination Bill. Use their tool to send emails to Labor MPs urging them to oppose the Bill.
Sign up to the #DontDivideUs campaign currently being run by a group of pro-secular groups including the NSL, to act against the proposed Religious Discrimination Bill.
Minister for Human Rights, Tara Cheyne, is running a petition calling on the Australian government to restore the right of Territories to pass laws on VAD. She also recommends people email the Commonwealth Attorney-General with their views, at attorney@ag.gov.au.
Dying With Dignity NSW has a tool that makes it easy for people to contact their federal MPs and senators to request help in repealing the "Andrews Bill", the 1997 legislation which denies the Territories the right to pass legislation on Voluntary Assisted Dying.
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