The Bad News
Storm clouds are never far from the skies above schools where Christian faith is the foundation.
The Attorney General has received the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) recommendations for reforming Federal anti-discrimination laws. He released these recommendations in March 2024, but has not yet publicly released the Government’s promised Religious Discrimination Bill in response to those recommendations.
When the ALRC released its Consultation Paper in January 2023, Associate Professor in law, Neil Foster noted:
“…when we come to the substantive recommendations, what we find is that at almost every point, balancing clauses currently in force to allow religious schools and colleges to operate in accordance with their faith, are to be abolished.”
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