From the DEEWR (Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations) website. High Court Challenge Legislation will be introduced into Parliament this week which, when passed, will allow the National School Chaplaincy and Student Welfare Program (NSCSWP) to continue following last week’s High Court decision. The legislation will amend the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 …
An interesting part of the High Court’s decision that the Federal Government’s funding of the National Chaplaincy Scheme was invalid was the dismissal of the component which argued that the scheme was invalid on the basis of the constitutional prohibition against the Commonwealth employing people on the basis of a religious test. I thought that …
So, the High Court declared the funding process by which the Federal Government supported its National Schools Chaplaincy Scheme was invalid, according the Australian Constitution. The Court did not determine that it was the religious character of the scheme which rendered it unconstitutional, but rather the fault lay with the way in which the Government …
From The Australian website THE school chaplaincy program has this morning been declared invalid in a landmark High Court decision which could cast doubt on other areas of Commonwealth funding, including funding for the arts, sport, local government road schemes and even potentially, the environment. Read the rest here.
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