Posts by Si Gladman

13 Mar

Law & Politics

Reaching for the mountain tops in Mayor Tate’s kingdom

• 13/03/2024
• By Si Gladman
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Sue Baynes loves Christmas. A self-declared “Christmas tragic”, she gets her Christmas tree set up early – in November – and tells her ...

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21 Nov

Feature series, Law & Politics

Say your prayers

• 31/01/2024
• By Si Gladman
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This article is part of our ‘A secular Australian future' feature series to mark the first Secularism Australia Conference

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13 May

Education

Key statements absent from policies for new student wellbeing program

• 13/05/2023
• By Si Gladman
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Two states are so far failing to implement the new National Student Wellbeing Program (NSWP) as agreed with the Albanese government, wi...

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13 Dec

Ethics & Religion, Feature series

Christ’s commanders

• 30/11/2023
• By Si Gladman
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This article is the third in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. Read the seco...

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24 Nov

Ethics & Religion, Feature series

Losing faith in Defence chaplaincy

• 28/11/2022
• By Si Gladman
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This article is the second in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Read the first article here. During the G...

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16 Nov

Ethics & Religion, Feature series

The committee of clerics lording it over Defence

• 16/11/2022
• By Si Gladman
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This article is the first in a series on religion in the Australian Defence Force. Every three months, Australian taxpayers pay to s...

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08 Nov

Law & Politics

Raised in her father’s church

• 13/03/2024
• By Si Gladman
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In 2019, when Clare Heath-McIvor wrote on her blog about why she wasn’t a dominionist anymore, she recalled that her entire chur...

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29 Oct

Law & Politics

‘Infiltrate, Impact, Impel’: Raising up Christians for the Liberal Party

• 30/10/2022
• By Si Gladman
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Upon signing up as a member of the Liberal Party in Victoria, some churchgoers have been handed a one-page document with the title ‘Pol...

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01 Oct

Education

School chaplains and the strategy of ‘saving souls’

• 01/10/2022
• By Si Gladman
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Many parents at public schools will have little clue that their kids are being targeted as “souls to be saved” by churches and missiona...

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04 Jul

Law & Politics

When Albanese spoke up for euthanasia

• 15/07/2022
• By Si Gladman
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When parliament resumes in Canberra later this month, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will have an opportunity to delve back into the H...

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24 May

Law & Politics

Liberal Party: Following the Christian right into electoral wilderness

• 15/07/2022
• By Si Gladman
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Christian right lobby groups now have the Liberal Party they want – a lot more conservative and no doubt a lot more favourable to their...

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02 Feb

Education

How the school chaplaincy program crosses a line

• 23/07/2022
• By Si Gladman
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Last month, as Queensland stepped up its efforts to vaccinate children before the start of the school year as the Omicron COVID-19 vari...

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