Weekend Wrap for 25 July 2026
Welcome to the NSL Weekend Wrap for 25 July 2026. The Wrap covers Australian secular politics — religious privilege and funding, religion in public schools, discrimination laws, voluntary assisted dying, and many other related issues. If someone forwarded this to you, you can subscribe on our website.
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Parliaments are still in winter recess, but the week produced something rarer than a bill: a retreat. After weeks of public pressure and court action, Edmund Rice Education Australia — the entity gifted hundreds of millions of dollars in Christian Brothers property for $1 a time — agreed on Friday to compensate abuse survivors "in full", assume liability for current and future claims, and consent to replacing the Christian Brothers as defendant. The order had pleaded poverty; the assets were placed beyond survivors' reach; the survivors sued, and the entity folded. As their lawyers put it, transferring wealth away does not extinguish a legal or moral obligation. It is the clearest win in years for the principle we often see tested: that accountability survives a corporate reorganisation.
The Northern Territory introduced its voluntary assisted dying bill on Thursday, with all 17 government MLAs committed to passing it — making the NT the last Australian jurisdiction to legislate for assisted dying, thirty years after it was the first. In Adelaide, Labor's national conference backed a conscience vote to lift the Howard-era ban on discussing VAD by telehealth, the change that would matter most in the bush. The churches have fought VAD at every step, and the Attorney-General's caution demonstrates that the fight continues.
Two threads run through the discrimination sector. Sydney's Divine Playhouse — the queer venue evicted from a deconsecrated church after Christian protests — drew more than 2,000 people to a "sing-in" in Hyde Park, even as its organiser reported death threats. And one of the country's most prominent anti-transgender campaigners, Kirralie Smith of Binary Australia, lost her appeal against Australia's first gender-identity vilification finding. The religious right has spent years arguing anti-vilification law threatens its freedom. A court told it otherwise.
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism sat again in Melbourne, hearing that Jews are targeted regardless of their views on Israel; in the same week a NSW court found an Islamic school principal was denied procedural fairness when he was stood down over old anti-Zionist posts. And as ICAC's Operation Rosny opens on Monday, the Saturday Paper traced its central cast to an Opus Dei network inside the NSW Liberals — a reminder that the entanglement of religion and party runs deeper than one publicly funded schools body.
With census night on 11 August, the Rationalist Society used the Labor conference to press for "accurate", not merely "reliable", religion data — a pointed distinction, given the ABS re-used a question it concedes is leading after the Catholic bishops lobbied the Prime Minister to keep it. If you're not already following it, please check out the Census — Not Religious? Mark 'No Religion' campaign, of which both the RSA and NSL are driving forces.
News this week
National: RSA urges Labor conference delegates to support collection of 'accurate' data on religion (21 July 2026)
As Labor's national conference opened in Adelaide, the Rationalist Society of Australia pressed delegates to amend the draft platform's commitment to "reliable" demographic data so that it reads "accurate and reliable". The distinction is not pedantic. This year's census re-uses a religion question the Australian Bureau of Statistics itself concedes is leading — one that likely undercounts the non-religious population by around 10 percentage points — after the Catholic bishops lobbied Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in 2024 to reverse the agency's proposed change from "What is your religion?" to "Do you have a religion?". RSA executive director Si Gladman said the current question is "reliable" only in that it can be compared with past censuses, but produces "the data that the Catholic bishops and religious lobbyists wanted" rather than an accurate picture. He confirmed the RSA will, after census night, advocate to governments and major data users not to treat the ABS figure as a true measure of religious affiliation.
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Rationalist Society of Australia
NT: Voluntary assisted dying to become legal in the NT, as bill secures majority support (22 July 2026)
The Northern Territory government has introduced its voluntary assisted dying bill and confirmed it has the numbers to pass regardless of crossbench support, with all 17 Country Liberal Party MLAs committed to backing the Rights of the Terminally Ill legislation in a conscience vote in August. Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby gave notice of the bill on Wednesday, with introduction on Thursday and debate scheduled for late August. The move makes the NT the last Australian jurisdiction to legislate for assisted dying — three decades after it became the first, in 1996, before the federal parliament overrode that law in 1997 and restored the territories' right to legislate only in 2022. The government has departed from its own inquiry's recommendations on two contested points: it will require a prognosis of 12 months or less to access VAD, and it will retain a "gag clause" barring health practitioners from raising VAD unless a patient asks first, which Boothby framed as making the scheme "patient-led". The churches have resisted VAD at every stage, and the Australian Christian Lobby is running a parallel "born alive" campaign in the Territory, signalling the religious right intends to contest end-of-life and abortion ground there at once.
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ABC News
National: Jews targeted by antisemitism regardless of views on Israel, inquiry hears (23 July 2026)
The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion continued its Melbourne hearings this week, examining the "safety settings" around Australia's Jewish communities. The commission heard that a recent wave of antisemitism has been far-reaching enough to target Jewish people who are themselves critical of the Israeli government, and took evidence from a senior rabbi of a progressive congregation who said movements such as hers had also faced abusive phone calls, bomb threats and lockdown drills, alongside religious leaders, police and security groups; senior bureaucrats from the NSW and Victorian premiers' offices also appeared. Our interest is less in the particular grievances than in the governance question the inquiry is shaping: how a public commission defines hatred of a religious and ethnic group, and how the state's protective machinery is built around it — a question it is answering in the same period that governments elsewhere are asked to license religious bodies to discriminate. The commission's final report is due by 14 December 2026, and it runs in parallel with the government's response to the separate Islamophobia review.
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ABC News
National: Christian Brothers abuse victims to get 'full' compensation in backdown after controversial property sales (24 July 2026)
In a significant reversal, the Trustees of Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) — the entity gifted vast Christian Brothers property holdings for nominal $1 sums over the past decade — agreed on Friday to help compensate abuse survivors "in full". Last month the Christian Brothers, a Catholic order with a long record of child abuse, told a court it was going broke and proposed selling 36 remaining properties (worth about $217 million) and dividing the proceeds among creditors, with survivors estimated to be owed some $774 million; an actuarial report released to the media on 20 July put the order's National Redress Scheme exposure alone at around $65 million across a projected 930 claims. Survivors had been told the transferred properties were off-limits, and EREA had refused to replace the Christian Brothers as defendant — until survivors moved for a court order to force it, and the public pressure mounted. Under the revised scheme both entities now say current claimants with settlements or judgments will be paid in full, and EREA will assume liability for all current and future legal proceedings and redress claims, consenting to stand as defendant. Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek welcomed the move but said survivors "should never have been put in the position of wondering whether their claims would be met". Rightside Legal, acting for dozens of claimants, said EREA was "folding because the law is against them" and warned other orders that "transferring their wealth away will not protect them". The scheme still requires a creditors' vote and court approval. It is the clearest vindication yet of the topic-13 principle: that asset-shielding cannot defeat accountability for institutional abuse.
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The Guardian (24 July)
The Guardian (20 July)
NSW: The former opposition leader, the alleged branch stacking and the silent nuns (24 July 2026)
The Independent Commission Against Corruption's public inquiry, Operation Rosny, begins on Monday, and the church-state stakes are sharpening. The eight-week inquiry will examine fugitive property developer Jean Nassif's links to Liberal Party powerbrokers and councils, with Catholic Schools NSW — the publicly funded governing body for some 600 diocesan schools — among the bodies embroiled. Reporting this week detailed the conduct of former Liberal operative Christian Ellis, one of ten persons of interest, who allegedly moved to the Riverina and set about stacking local branches; multiple party sources claim an order of contemplative Carmelite nuns near Deniliquin was signed up as party members as part of that effort. The Diocese of Wilcannia-Forbes rejected the claim, saying the nuns "have no participation in local political parties and have never done so" and that its own 2023 investigation found the allegations had "no basis in fact". Whatever the nuns' role, the inquiry puts a publicly funded religious-education body at the centre of a corruption investigation into the internal machinery of a political party.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
NSW: Islamic school principal Abdulghani Albaf could resume job after court ruling (24 July 2026)
The NSW Supreme Court has found that the principal of the New Madinah College Islamic school in Young, Sheikh Abdulghani Albaf, was denied procedural fairness when he was stood down, potentially paving the way for his return. Albaf had voluntarily stood aside while older social media posts — including one stating "Zionists should burn in the pits of hellfire" — were subject to renewed investigation in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre, which claimed 15 lives. The secular interest is in the boundary the case tests: how a faith school's registration and governance obligations, an employee's political speech, and the heightened social-cohesion climate around antisemitism intersect, and whether an institution's disciplinary process met the standards the law requires. It sits alongside the antisemitism Royal Commission's hearings this week as a marker of how contested the line between political speech and religious or ethnic hatred has become — and of the fact that the same tests apply to a religious school as to any other institution.
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ABC News
The Sydney Morning Herald
National: Labor endorses voluntary assisted dying telehealth access in platform shift (24–25 July 2026)
Delegates at Labor's national conference in Adelaide voted to amend the party platform to support a conscience vote on removing the federal barriers to providing voluntary assisted dying by telehealth. A Howard-era provision in the Commonwealth Criminal Code threatens doctors with fines of up to $300,000 for using a phone or video link to discuss VAD, a restriction that falls hardest on terminally ill people in regional and remote areas who must otherwise travel long distances for in-person assessments. Delegates also wrote a guarantee of a conscience vote on VAD into Labor's constitution. Go Gentle Australia welcomed the move as a "positive first step" toward equitable access. But Attorney-General Michelle Rowland pushed back on any blanket change, saying she was "not convinced" a person facing an end-of-life decision should be denied a face-to-face consultation, and citing criminal-code provisions against using a carriage service to counsel suicide and concerns about elder abuse. Any change would require future government action and parliamentary support. The debate reopens the standing question of who can lawfully reach VAD, and it lands as faith-based providers continue to obstruct access on institutional grounds.
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ABC News
The Age
NSW: Thousands gather for Divine Playhouse sing-in protest rally (25 July 2026)
More than 2,000 people gathered in Hyde Park for a peaceful "sing-in" in support of Divine Playhouse, the queer arts venue forced to shut this month after its landlord terminated its lease for "offensive trade" following protests by conservative Christian groups. The venue had opened inside the long-deconsecrated former St John the Evangelist Church — originally announced as "Unholy Playhouse" before organisers changed the name over concerns raised by some Christians — and was targeted by groups including the Prodigal Sons and Fit for the Kingdom before the landlord acted; organiser Kat Dopper has said she received death threats. The crowd sang songs from John Farnham's "You're the Voice" to Madonna's "Like a Prayer", with performers reclaiming the "offensive trade" label the eviction notice used against them. The rally caps a fortnight in which the Premier ordered officials to check whether the venue's $100,000 Create NSW grant matched its programme, the Arts Minister defended its right to exist, and the Greens pushed for a further grant to help it find a secure home. Organisers say the fight is "about the future of arts and culture in New South Wales and who gets to decide it".
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Star Observer
The Sydney Morning Herald
NSW: Kirralie Smith and Binary lose appeal against vilification finding (25 July 2026)
Kirralie Smith, chief executive of the anti-transgender organisation Binary Australia, has lost her appeal in the NSW Supreme Court against a landmark vilification finding — believed to be the first successful vilification finding in New South Wales based on gender identity. Although the judge amended parts of the original determination, the substance stood: Smith and Binary must pay $95,000 in damages to two transgender women, Stephanie Blanch and Riley Dennis, whom they targeted in a campaign against transgender women playing community sport, and must publish a court-approved apology pinned to their social media for three months. A clause doubling the penalty for late payment was removed. In a separate matter Smith was made the subject of a two-year apprehended violence order after a judge found the complainant had endured a "sustained campaign of belittling, harassment and intimidation". Binary Australia grew out of the Marriage Alliance, a leading voice against marriage equality, and Smith's earlier activism included the Q Society and campaigns against Islam and halal certification. The ruling is a direct test of anti-vilification law, which religious-right groups have long argued should yield to their freedom to campaign — and a marker of how far protections extend where they exist.
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OUTinPerth
Commentary and analysis
Paula Gerber: A shield, not a sword: What did the Giggle v Tickle judgement actually say about 'special measures'? (21 July 2026)
A clear, careful defence of the Full Court's reasoning in Giggle v Tickle. Gerber, a Monash human-rights law professor, explains that the Sex Discrimination Act's "special measures" provision (section 7D) permits otherwise-discriminatory initiatives only where their purpose is to advance substantive equality — a shield, not "a general permission slip for otherwise unlawful exclusion". Four judges held that a measure justified by women's disadvantage cannot then exclude a subset of women — trans women — on a ground the Act separately protects. Answering Neil Foster's argument that the court misread the provision, she distinguishes the special-measures analysis from the separate religious exemptions in sections 37 and 38, noting a faith group's associational choices are assessed under different tests. With Giggle now seeking special leave to appeal to the High Court on the meaning of "men" and "women" in the Act, the piece is the clearest available guide to what is actually at stake.
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ABC Religion & Ethics
Neil Foster: Giggle v Tickle — further response on "special measures" (22 July 2026)
The counterpart to Gerber's piece, presenting the argument from the other side. Foster, a law academic who writes the Law and Religion Australia blog, maintains that the Full Court adopted "a strained interpretation" of section 7D and side-stepped the provision's ordinary meaning, using the example of whether a women-only group could lawfully organise around a shared religious commitment. The exchange matters because the religious-freedom case being built on Giggle v Tickle — and the parallel push to redefine "sex" and "gender identity" in anti-discrimination law — runs directly through the interpretation of these provisions. Reading the two responses together is the fairest way to understand a live legal dispute that the High Court may soon resolve.
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Law and Religion Australia
Charlotte Farrell: The long, global history of queer art in churches (22 July 2026)
The cultural-history companion to the Divine Playhouse affair. Farrell sets the Sydney venue — a deconsecrated church heckled and prayed at by Christian protesters, then evicted for "offensive trade" — within a centuries-long tradition of queer artists working in and around church spaces, arguing that deconsecrated churches, which hold no sacred status, are in fact ideal sites for artistic reclamation by the queer community. The piece is useful precisely because it refuses the protesters' framing on its own terms: the building is a building, its religious life is over, and the claim that art within it desecrates something sacred does not survive contact with either the law or the history.
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The Conversation
Laura Koefoed: Following the trail: the anti-LGBTQIA+ campaign that led to Divine Playhouse (22 July 2026)
The investigative companion to the Divine Playhouse story, tracing the organised Christian campaign behind it. Koefoed, a QNews journalist, connects the venue's eviction to a longer pattern: the Christian Lives Matter founder Charlie Bakhos — involved in organising the Divine Playhouse protests — had, a year earlier, directed followers to target a queer small business, a campaign the owner says brought death threats and cost her livelihood. Others who posted material the group disliked, including a Christian teacher, were pressured into silence. Koefoed's wider point is the one that should resonate: Australia calls itself secular, yet federal parliament still opens with Christian prayer, religious schools keep legal exemptions to discriminate against LGBTQIA+ staff and students, and organised religious groups can run intimidation campaigns "with seemingly zero consequences". The question she leaves is when governments will stop treating that as passionate disagreement.
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QNews
Wendy Bacon: Queer venue's closure signals religion's enduring clout (24 July 2026)
A long view of the Divine Playhouse affair from a journalist who fought Australia's censorship battles first-hand. Bacon sets the eviction against the obscenity prosecutions of the early 1970s — when she stood trial over a student publication that criticised the Catholic Church — and the gay-liberation street theatre of the 1980s, to argue that the venue's closure is the latest episode in a long history of religious interests policing satirical expression. She notes the "offensive trade" clause used to evict the venue originates in a nineteenth-century law aimed at abattoir smells, never intended as an instrument of censorship, and that the developer landlord has "imposed an absolutist view of good and evil" on a community most of whom, including many practising Catholics, would not be troubled by the show. Her conclusion doubles as a call to action: the case demonstrates why New South Wales badly needs a Human Rights Act.
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The Age
Michelle Grattan: Labor national conference backs use of telehealth in voluntary assisted dying care (24 July 2026)
Grattan's account of the conference floor debate is the useful analytical read on the VAD telehealth vote, setting out how delegates amended the platform, why the Attorney-General resisted a blanket change, and what would have to happen federally for anything to shift. It is a measured guide to a change that is a statement of intent rather than a law, and to the safeguards debate that will shape whatever comes next.
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The Conversation
Mike Seccombe: Who's who in ICAC's Liberal probe (25 July 2026)
The indispensable companion to the Operation Rosny news item. Seccombe maps the network of NSW Liberal figures at the centre of the ICAC hearings and finds a religious thread binding them: a dossier before the commission describes the group's "primary decision makers" as people who had known each other for years "through shared community, religion, and schooling from the Opus Dei sect of Catholicism", naming former premier Dominic Perrottet, former finance minister Damien Tudehope and the premier's brother, Charles Perrottet. The piece is a reminder that the church-state stakes of Operation Rosny run wider than the publicly funded Catholic Schools NSW body alone. (No corruption findings have been made; the inquiry begins Monday.)
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The Saturday Paper
Robin Brown and Nick Bogiatzis: Multiculturalism is the middle ground Australia needs (20 July 2026)
The analytical companion to the "Christian nation" thread we ran a fortnight ago, and a direct answer to it. In the first of a two-part series, Brown and Bogiatzis take apart Pauline Hanson's National Press Club call for a monocultural Australia, arguing the moral values politicians claim as "Western" are common human values — and deeply present in the world's oldest continuing culture. Their sharpest point: the deeper problem with the politics Hanson is running is "its claim to Christian foundations" and to a "Christian West" civilisational identity — a claim that collapses on contact with Christian ethics themselves, since the Sermon on the Mount preaches loving your enemies and caring for the poor, the meek and the stranger, the opposite of a politics built on fear of the other and the exclusion of refugees. It is a careful dismantling of the religious warrant behind the monoculture push (topic 9c), and it pairs with last fortnight's Barnaby Joyce and Bakchos items.
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Pearls & Irritations
Opportunities for action
NSW: The Independent Commission Against Corruption's public inquiry, Operation Rosny, begins its eight weeks of hearings on Monday 27 July. It will examine property developer Jean Nassif's links to Liberal powerbrokers and councils, with publicly funded Catholic Schools NSW among the bodies embroiled and its chief executive having stood aside; the Saturday Paper has traced the network at its centre to an Opus Dei faction of the NSW Liberals. With a religious-education body funded by taxpayers implicated, the hearings are a live test of integrity where church, party and taxpayer money meet. They are open to the public. See the ICAC Operation Rosny public notice for hearing details.
TAS: The Tasmanian Greens' draft Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 is open for public consultation until 31 July — this coming week. On the evidence of Rodney Croome's recent explainer, it is the most comprehensive conversion-practices ban yet drafted in Australia, borrowing the NSW model that defines both what a conversion practice is and what it is not, with oversight by the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner. The Australian Christian Lobby is running an active campaign against it under the banner of "parental and religious freedom". Secular, humanist and human-rights voices that support a strong ban — one that protects genuine religious expression while criminalising coercive practice — have only days left to lodge submissions. Submit your view via the consultation website.
National: The 2026 Census religion question — unchanged, and confirmed by the ABS's own internal documents to be one the agency knew "may lead respondents to a particular response" — will be put to every household on Census night, 11 August. Faith organisations are running a coordinated campaign to lift the religion count. The NSL is part of the joint Census — Not Religious? Mark 'No Religion' campaign calling for change. Sign the campaign's change.org petition to change the question for 2031 and learn more at the campaign website.
National: Labor's national conference this week backed a conscience vote to remove the federal telehealth barrier to voluntary assisted dying — a Howard-era criminal-code provision that threatens doctors with fines for discussing VAD by phone or video. The change is a statement of platform intent, not yet law, and the Attorney-General has signalled caution. Go Gentle Australia is running a campaign asking supporters to email the Attorney-General in support of removing the barrier, which matters most to people in regional and remote areas. Email the Attorney-General via Go Gentle Australia.
National / NT: The Northern Territory's voluntary assisted dying bill was introduced on 23 July and will be debated in late August, with all 17 CLP MLAs committed to passing it and making the NT the last Australian jurisdiction to legislate for VAD. Two contested features remain — a 12-month prognosis limit and a "gag clause" barring practitioners from raising VAD unless a patient asks first. The Australian Christian Lobby is running a "born alive" campaign in the Territory alongside its VAD opposition. Territorians can follow the debate and register their views with local members. Go Gentle Australia is tracking the NT process.
VIC: The Victorian parliament's Inquiry into Anti-LGBTIQA+ Hate Crimes is continuing, with a final report due by 1 September 2026. The proceedings are open and broadcast live. Details are on the Victorian Parliament website.
VIC: The Victorian parliament's Inquiry into the recruitment methods and impacts of cults and organised fringe groups is continuing, with a final report due by 30 September 2026. It is the first inquiry of its kind in Australia, and the Australian Christian Lobby and Freedom for Faith are already lobbying against any coercive-control law that could reach churches. Secular voices that support behaviour-based protections — aimed at coercion, not belief — should follow the inquiry and be ready to respond to its recommendations. Details are on the Victorian Parliament website.
TAS: The independent statutory review of Tasmania's End-of-Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Act 2021 is underway, with written submissions and a public survey open. Do not leave this space to the ACL alone. Contact VADReview@health.tas.gov.au for submission details, or see the Tasmanian Department of Health's website.
TAS: Equality Tasmania, Women's Health Tasmania and Working It Out have written to the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner requesting an inquiry into the proposed sale of Hobart Private Hospital to Calvary Health Care. Tasmanians who support continued access to gender-affirming and other healthcare that Calvary's Catholic ethical guidelines would prohibit can contact the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner's office or follow Equality Tasmania's campaign.
VIC: The Victorian Law Reform Commission is reviewing the Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act 2021, with faith leaders urging the Act be narrowed. Secular voices that support retaining strong protections should not leave this consultation to religious organisations alone. Details are on the Commission's website.
WA: The Cook government has committed to introducing a new Equal Opportunity Act this year, intended to add anti-vilification protections for LGBTIQA+ Western Australians. Advocates warn that the government's new language of "balance" signals the Act may retain the special religious exemptions that allow publicly funded faith schools and services to discriminate against LGBTIQA+ staff and students — exemptions the WA Law Reform Commission recommended removing in 2021. WA residents can press the Attorney-General for a clear timetable and for a bill that removes, rather than entrenches, those exemptions.
WA: The Western Australian Legislative Assembly's Procedure and Privileges Committee is reviewing the chamber's standing orders, including whether to retain the Lord's Prayer that opens each sitting day. With the Premier and Opposition Leader both on record defending the prayer, the committee has circulated a discussion paper inviting feedback on "Discussion Question 25". WA residents who support an inclusive moment of reflection can register their view and support the Rationalist Society of Australia's Prayers in government campaign.
National: Private school organisations have opened a campaign to extend the $1.2 billion Choice and Affordability Fund beyond 2029 — money available only to Catholic and Independent schools, outside the needs-based model, and distributed by the sectors themselves. Public school organisations will need to push back before this becomes a 2028 election commitment. The Australian Education Union's "every school, every child" campaign is the natural vehicle. Support the campaign here.
National: Go Gentle Australia has published Know Your Rights: VAD in Aged Care, together with a searchable database covering 70 of the largest residential aged care providers, after finding that two-thirds of providers publish no public information about voluntary assisted dying — despite VAD being lawful in all six states and the ACT. Faith-based providers are a substantial part of the sector, and a resident who discovers only on admission that their provider will not facilitate VAD has effectively lost the choice. Supporters can look up their own or a family member's provider and press those that are silent to publish their position. Read the guide and search the provider database at Go Gentle Australia.
National: Australia has declined all eight LGBTIQ+ recommendations from its UN Universal Periodic Review, including removal of the religious-school discrimination exemptions and a national conversion-practices ban. Equality Australia is tracking the government's response. Details at Equality Australia.
National: The Rationalist Society of Australia is running a Change.org petition calling on the Australian War Memorial to take direct responsibility for the Anzac Day Dawn Service and end the imposition of Christian worship on a national commemoration. Read and sign the petition at change.org.
NSW: Dying With Dignity NSW is asking people to send a message to Attorney-General Michelle Rowland to exclude VAD from the Commonwealth telehealth prohibition, so that people in regional and remote areas can consult VAD practitioners without repeated travel. Visit their campaign here.
National: The Australia Institute is calling on federal parliament to pass truth in political advertising laws that are nationally consistent, constitutional and uphold freedom of speech. View the petition at The Australia Institute.
National: The Human Rights Law Centre is running a website for those who want to support an Australian Charter of Human Rights & Freedoms. Visit the Charter of Rights website here.
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