Church & State - Secular Association of NSW

Select Committee on Cost of Living submission (by Lara Kaput)

Australia, Church & State, General

17 June 2024

Submission to The House of Lords Select Committee on the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (by Samantha Radford MBACP and Steven Unthank)

Australia, Church & State, General

14 May 2024

NSW Secularists’ National YouGov poll

Australia, Church & State, News

11 March 2024

The Secular Association of New South Wales commissioned a national YouGov poll, conducted 15–21 February 2024 from a sample of 1,087, on formal constitutional separatation of church and state.

Submission to the ACT Legislative Assembly for the “Inquiry into Loneliness and Social Isolation in the ACT”

Australia, Church & State, General

27 February 2024

Testimony (transcript) of Lara Kaput to the Australian Productivity Commission’s “Philanthropy Inquiry”

Australia, Church & State, General

22 February 2024

Secular morality versus religious morality

Australia, Church & State, New Zealand

25 November 2023

Both federal and state governments require the recitation of prayers in government proceedings, promote religious doctrine in political debate, and grant financial assistance for church activities such as schools and 'charitable' activities. This disregards the rise of the UN with its 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) which was specifically implemented to create a universal 'sound [public] morality' regardless of one's religion or other worldview.

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MEDIA RELEASE: Soft Theocracy at Work in Australia’s Federal Parliament

Australia, Church & State, Media Releases

3 March 2023

Why do we still have Christian prayers in the supposedly secular parliament and why does government defer to Christianity by participating in a religious service prior to the opening of parliament?

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MEDIA RELEASE: New survey shows majority support for formal separation of church and state

Australia, Church & State, Media Releases

17 February 2023

On 6-7 February 2023, YouGov undertook a survey on behalf of the Secular Association of NSW. We found a majority support formal separation of church and state.

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Church & State in Former Bristish Colonies of NZ, Australia, Canada & Fiji

Church & State

21 September 2021

Although no longer colonies of the British Government, these countries are still part of the British government, with the British monarch (supreme governor of the Church of England) as head of state, and with constitutional arrangements defined by their colonial status. Thus, the very idea of separation is defined out of existence.

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Protected: Dear Prime Minister, You Need to do Your Research

Church & State

29 June 2021

Secularism is NOT a belief like any other religious or non-religious life-stance. It is a political process. It is not a belief: it is the right to have or not to have one. The concept has been wrongly equated with atheism.

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