FIRIS is a parent group advocating sectarian 'special' religious 'education' be held outside formal teaching time & the NSCP be dismantled
NSW & Victoria, Australia
Joined March 2011
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"remove RI [eg. SRE] from govt schools altogether so that they are truly secular and inclusive, as was intended when govt schools were first established in the 1870s. There's no real need to replace RI [SRE] with any alternative program." #nswpol #qldpol pesaagora.com/columns/philos…
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Multiple sources from inside the church have contacted the committee to detail how the Brethren was given access to Liberal campaign resources, such as the party’s phonebank database, to make thousands of calls on behalf of Liberal candidates. trib.al/e3JY652
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Partition left hundreds of Punjab’s mosques abandoned or destroyed.
Today, Hindus and Sikhs are helping Muslim neighbors rebuild them, donating land, money, bricks and labor.
This is pluralism made tangible: making room for your neighbor’s faith. buff.ly/ewUnXQP
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“For most people, announcing their engagement means congratulations. For me it meant getting fired.”
Why are Australia's religious schools legally able to sack a teacher or expel a student simply for being gay, transgender, divorced or pregnant? trib.al/DuKQYJm
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Zionism is racism. This is not nuanced, complex or counter productive as the liberal Zionists have told us for decades while they enabled Israel's killing and destruction of our people. Thank you @LSpeitan for your words and your courage!
Watch this.
Lubna Speitan, author of the Greens4Palestine motion “Zionism is racism”, spells out the central obscenity of our age – the grotesque inversion whereby the victims of ethnic cleansing, Apartheid and genocide must constantly fend off accusations from their tormentors that it is they who are the racists.
“We as Palestinians are being silenced and gaslit and vilified [as we] witness the annihilation, the cold-blooded murder of our families, of our people… our children burnt with phosphorus, having to endure amputations with no anaesthetic, having their limbs torn and shredded, their bodies burnt by phosphorus, being starved to death … And to have to sit here … and try to bury my feelings so I can eloquently and diplomatically shield my anger, my rage, my anguish that every Palestinian is feeling, is an insult.” /1
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"Migration is only one element of the housing crisis that has been decades in the making in this country,” writes John Hewson. “For the opposition it is just a politically convenient connection to make in the absence of any carefully considered policy." trib.al/fRIbpQd
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In other states, like Tasmania and Victoria, some religious school authorities ignore state discrimination law, wrongly claiming the federal exemption they still enjoy overrides it. The Federal Government must remove federal exemptions to ensure state laws work as intended.
Western Australia has introduced new legislation to modernise the Equal Opportunity Act 1984, offering better protection for LGBTQ+ staff and students.
Read more: starobserver.com.au/news/wes…
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Some time ago I asked a lawyer who specialises in CSA cases whether their workload had dried up since the Catholic Church has (mostly) cleaned up its act on CSA and she said no, because there are now HUGE numbers of CSA cases coming in from private schools as this is where the pedophiles all went when they couldn’t get away with it as priests any more.
I think about this a lot.
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"I don't know what the fuss is about. Zionism is of course racist. .... Zionists ... decided to establish their self-determination on the territory of another people. .... There's no way that the state of Israel could have been established without the expulsion of the people already living in the territory ... Why is this so difficult to understand?"
The indomitable Ghada Karmi, driven from Jerusalem as a child, cuts through the crap at this morning's Greens4Palestine press conference. /1
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😂😂 she funny, and she’s exactly what Australians need to erase racial profiling.
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Melbourne supporters may like to attend a free public talk by scholar Luke Beck entitled "When Australian Governments Pray: Religious Privilege and the Fair Go" on Thursday, 12 November 2026, as part of Monash Law's Professorial Lecture Series.
RSVP here: eventbrite.com.au/e/when-aus…
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The choice isn’t between Christian nationalism and “atheistic globalism.” It’s between a free society with equal rights and a theocracy ruled by religious zealots.
We cannot let Christian nationalists take away our constitutional freedoms.
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If you're head of the business lobby and you want the Labor Party to do something for you, simply text Anthony Albanese personally and he'll get onto it right away 🫡
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The NSWP is explicitly NOT a religious program but federal & state governments turn a blind-eye to the discriminatory hiring practices of mostly Christian organisations like YouthCare & Scripture Union.
SU Qld even admitted they were acting unlawfully in their own submission.
based on SRE participation rates
& changes in them over the last 10 yrs #nswpol
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New report: Christianity is increasingly invoked as a marker of British identity. Yet just 17% agree you need to be Christian to be truly British – and only 1% rank it as the most important factor.
theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
The NSW Dept of Communities & Justice (DCJ) received 15 'Risk of Significant Harm' notifications involving children at a Sydney private religious school since 2004, but never conducted an on-the-ground, face-to-face field assessment #nswpol #auspol
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Student wellbeing is a secondary goal of school chaplaincy.
Have a listen while they tell you themselves how they see it...
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We're calling on the Cook government to prioritise the wellbeing needs of Western Australia’s public schoolkids, instead of the coffers of religious labour-hire agencies, by allowing schools to directly employ professional wellbeing staff. More: rationalist.com.au/prioritis…
#WApol
This is also the case in other states such as NSW, ie. religious organisations get a cut of public $$, including some specific religious public school chaplain providers #nswpol #qldpol
We're calling on the Cook government to prioritise the wellbeing needs of Western Australia’s public schoolkids, instead of the coffers of religious labour-hire agencies, by allowing schools to directly employ professional wellbeing staff. More: rationalist.com.au/prioritis…
#WApol