That amount1 is staggering even before you take into account that it’s money spent based on nothing more than the whim of deeply religious politicians and the gleeful rubbing of palms from self interested religious organisations. There has been no pilot study for this program. No detailed review from independent or qualified stakeholders. Contrast this [...]
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Feeling decidedly under the weather at the moment – check my twitter feed for the gruesome details. So I offer you some of the chatter that’s been generated by the slap to the face of youth mental health that is the $222 million expansion of the Chaplaincy program. First up we have an entertaining rant from [...] I had hoped that with the Coalition being kicked out of office at the lat election we may have seen the end of pandering to the Christian right (and indeed the demonization of asylum seekers). I had been given reason to think that the discriminatory Chaplaincy program would be reviewed with a view to determining [...] I have written at length about the Ethics Trial in New South Wales. Below is a video showing snapshots of the program with footage from a class and comments from the course designer and a group facilitator. This is what children who opted out of Special Religious Education have an opportunity to attend depending on whether [...] In a stunning show of concern Jude Hennessy, director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine in the Wollongong Diocese has been quoted as saying: “It is really difficult to see how proponents of ethics classes will in a similar way attract and motivate, adequately train and resource these classes in an ongoing fashion,” [source] This is in response, [...] |
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