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 …
The ballot for the position of Moderator of the 2013 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Australia is being conducted. The nominees are: Reverend Andrew Bray, a retired pastor from Victoria. Andrew served the Moorabool Parish as their pastor, and has also served a two-year term as Moderator of the Victorian State Assembly (in …
Here’s a piece submitted for publication in our local Mount Gambier paper. Last year my sister asked if I could come to Maryborough in Queensland to celebrate her fortieth birthday. I tried to sound positive but also said she’d asked for a hard thing: it was a long way to travel from Mount Gambier to …
CNN’s Belief Blog featured a link to this feature article on England’s The Guardian website which is entitled Australia’s blurred separation between church and state. The author is a US journalist who has an interest in exposing the infiltration of certain types of Christianity into places where she believes it shouldn’t be. Her book is …
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