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Non-religious AFL players deserve same opportunity to talk about their worldview, RSA tells league

Si Gladman — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 03:24:45 +0000

The Rationalist Society of Australia has urged the Australian Football League to ensure non-religious footballers have the same opportunity as their religious colleagues to speak about their worldview on the league’s own media channels. The RSA has written to the AFL following the publication of an article on the afl.com.au website last week – titled […]

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Media release: Report contradicts religious claims of moral superiority

Si Gladman — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:57:21 +0000

Religious claims of moral superiority over non-religious people do not stack up, the latest report into religiosity in Australia reveals. The Rationalist Society of Australia (RSA) has today published the latest volume of social researcher and RSA Fellow Neil Francis’ landmark Religiosity in Australia research series, with Part 5 – Religion, morality and ethics – […]

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Surge in non-religious Australia unsettling for some media, webinar told

Si Gladman — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:40:47 +0000

Significant sections of the Australian media are responding to the rapid rise in non-religious identification with concern, defensiveness and fear, the latest RSA Webinar has heard. At Wednesday’s webinar, guest speaker, Dr Rebecca Banham shared insights from her project analysing the media’s response to the 2021 Census results, in which the proportion of Australian society […]

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Australians overwhelming support separation of religion and politics, new research shows

Si Gladman — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 07:32:27 +0000

The vast majority of Australians support the separation of church and state, and oppose attempts by religious leaders to influence elections, new research shows. The Religion in Australian politics and society report, published this month by a team of researchers at Macquarie University, found that 82 per cent of Australians agreed that “religion should be […]

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Media release: Religionists give to their own, shows new volume in ‘Religiosity in Australia’ series

Si Gladman — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 01:35:57 +0000

Religious people engage in higher levels of volunteerism and charitable donations than the non-religious but say it is more for their personal benefit and that of their congregations rather than benefiting others, the latest report into religiosity in Australia reveals. The Rationalist Society of Australia (RSA) has today published the new volume in Neil Francis’ […]

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Alumni criticise Opus Dei schools’ ‘deplorable behaviour’

Si Gladman — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 05:09:27 +0000

A group of former students who raised concerns about Opus Dei schools as part of an ABC investigation say many more alumni have come forward with similar allegations since the show went to air in January. In an newly published Open Letter to the Principals of the conservative Catholic sect schools published online, the group […]

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NSW minister responds to RSA’s concerns by stressing all citizens have equal opportunity to participate

Si Gladman — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:28:02 +0000

New South Wales’ multiculturalism minister has asserted that all citizens have opportunities to participate in all aspects of public life, but has been unable to detail how the Perrottet government would provide non-religious groups with equal access to policy-making as religious organisations. In response to concerns raised by the Rationalist Society of Australia about the […]

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Minns says he “trusts” religious organisations as he promotes Labor’s faith council

Si Gladman — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 04:01:26 +0000

New South Wales Labor leader Chris Minns has told faith leaders that he “trusts” their organisations while outlining the advantages of his party’s proposed faith advisory council in a speech last week. At a town hall-style event in Parramatta last Monday, Mr Minns said Labor’s proposed Faith Affairs Council would be better than the Perrottet […]

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