Tell your WA MPs to protect rights of parents in schools

The WA state election will be held on Saturday 8 March, and it is important that our Christian community speaks out for religious freedom given troubling proposals from the Law Reform Commission.

MyChristianSchool has reached out to the major parties to reinforce the need for religious freedom protections to be retained under WA state legislation.

WA EVENTS
A series of Meet Your Candidate Forums in WA are being held by Christian schools, churches and advocacy groups. Please visit MeetYourCandidates.org.au for all the details. A promotional flyer for the first round of WA locations is available as a PNG and a PDF.

WA ACTION
Now is your opportunity to tell your local MPs that you want protections for Christian schools retained and oppose any amendments to the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 that undermine this.

In 2022 the Law Reform Commission made sweeping proposals that would affect Christian schools as follows:

  • The proposals require faith-based schools to prove that religious belief or activity is an inherent requirement of the job for all hiring decisions.
  • However, other groups and employers, like political parties, will not be required to evidence or prove that other categories of beliefs, like political beliefs, are an inherent requirement of employment.
  • In effect, WA courts and tribunals would be able to interfere with Christian schools and churches on the appointment of staff based on their faith.

These WA legislative protections must be maintained, because the Australian Law Reform Commission has also proposed removing federal protections for religious schools in Commonwealth legislation. This would have troubling consequences for Victorian and Tasmanian schools where state-level protections have already been removed.

Please send a message to WA MPs through the tool below.

We would also recommend sending the wording of this email (include PDF file link here) to your local candidates as well.

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