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19 Aug

The problem with personality and intelligence testing

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17 Jul

Education

How Queensland’s state schools remain ‘mission fields’ for ‘harvesting’

19/07/2023
By Hugh Harris
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"But Dad! Dad! We learned it at school!" This was how my son defended his claim that “God created the whole world". Evidently, this...

14 Jun

Education

Why is Labor walking away from secular education?

15/06/2023
By Hugh Harris
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The Australian Labor Party (ALP) looks like it’s jettisoning the long-held ideal that schools are “universal, free and secular”....

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...

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...

22 Jul

Education

Religious interference in the public school system

This article is based on extracts from the new report, Teaching not preaching: Making our public schools secular. The extracts a...

02 Jul

Letters to the Editor

With Sussan, the numbers don’t add up

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22 Jun

Education

Give schools a real choice on secular school chaplains

15/07/2022
By Luke Beck
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New federal Education Minister Jason Clare has announced a change to the National School Chaplaincy Program to allow schools to ...

16 Jun

Education

What’s so offensive about secularism?

15/07/2022
By Hugh Harris
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Demonising secularism has become something of a sport for the religious right in the United States. Secularists are routinely painted a...

10 Jun

Education

Why God has no place in public schools

15/07/2022
By Jane Caro
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As I sat in my classrooms at Frenchs Forest Public, Chatswood Public and Forest High, dreaming about my future, I did not think that de...

04 Apr

Education

112 years on, Religious Instruction remains controversial in Queensland

08/09/2022
By Alison Courtice
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The genesis – pun intended – of Religious Instruction (RI) in Queensland state schools has its roots in a 1910 referendum. When Quee...

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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