Chaplaincy

Most Australians back the Australian Capital Territory government’s model of hiring school pastoral support workers directly instead of through third-party providers that require religious credentials

The federal education department says it expects religious chaplains to be able to help “create a safe place” for students who want to discuss gender

The ACT government has assured the Rationalist Society of Australia that no religious-based discrimination will take place in the employment of workers to public schools

The Albanese government’s education minister Jason Clare has backed the establishment of a new ‘friendship group’ that will promote religious-based chaplaincy and the interests of

A number of Christian federal Labor MPs have helped to establish a parliamentary ‘friendship group’ to advocate for religious-based chaplaincy in schools, despite the Albanese