National Secular Lobby

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Five state and territory health ministers want telehealth allowed for lawful voluntary assisted dying. Labor’s conference backed it in July, non-binding. Albanese says he remains personally opposed.
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Catholic provider Calvary is due to take over 16 Healthscope hospitals, targeting 30 November. NSW doctors want the government to intervene. At Newcastle Private, 1,000+ IVF patients a year could be affected.
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Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Jillian Segal, wants governments and universities to adopt the IHRA's definition of antisemitism. The Jewish Council of Australia calls it a threat to free speech. Here's what the definition says & why it’s contested.
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The War Memorial says changing the Anzac Day Dawn Service is up to the ACT RSL, not it. The Rationalist Society wants the Memorial to take responsibility for its religious content. Its petition has 2,000+ signatures. #auspol
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Women’s legal groups, LGBTQI+ advocates and law academics have asked Albanese to repeal religious exemptions in the Sex Discrimination Act. Equality Australia also wants Labor to back Allegra Spender’s schools bill. #auspol
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Tasmania’s conversion ban, Catholic bishops in Victoria’s election, an antisemitism report disputed, and more. Welcome to the 31 October 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol
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Special Envoy Jillian Segal’s report calls “progressive” antisemitism the most pervasive form facing Australia and again backs the IHRA definition. The Jewish Council of Australia calls it “Orwellian” and says it doesn’t speak for all Jews. #auspol
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Tasmania’s lower house has passed the Greens’ conversion ban. Premier Rockliff and two Liberals backed it on a conscience vote. The bill says expressions of belief, including prayer, aren’t conversion practices. #taspol #auspol
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Tasmania’s lower house debated the conversion practices ban past 2am, resuming Thursday. It has 21 votes, three above the 18 needed, including Premier Rockliff, who wants stronger religious protections added. #taspol #auspol
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Tasmania’s lower house has begun debating the Greens’ conversion practices ban. Premier Rockliff will vote yes and wants stronger religious protections. Liberal conservatives, including Barnett and Abetz, will oppose. #taspol #auspol
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Tasmania's Deputy Premier and Attorney-General Guy Barnett says the Greens’ Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill 2026 risks criminalising religious conversations and prayers. Does it?
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Religious schools and gay teachers, Tasmania's conversion ban, the Brethren's tax status, and more. Welcome to the 24 October edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism https://t.co/VOmKzl8BgF

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WA Greens leader Brad Pettitt wants religious exemptions removed or minimised in the state's Equal Opportunity reforms. OUTinPerth reports Labor will likely need Greens support in the upper house to get the bill passed. #wapolitics #auspol
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WA’s proposed Equal Opportunity Act rewrite would stop religious schools sacking teachers or expelling students over sexuality, or rejecting students with disability. The religion exemption stays. The bill is due to be introduced today.
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The Brethren before parliament, religious schools and the Census question, and more. Welcome to the 17 October edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues
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Brethren leader Bruce Hales faces the federal electoral matters committee on Friday. Ex-members say the church directed its election activity. A finding of electioneering could put its charities’ tax concessions at risk. #auspol
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Allegra Spender has introduced a bill to narrow religious school exemptions on LGBTQIA+ discrimination. Labor promised reform in 2022 but tied it to Coalition support, and hasn’t said whether it will back the bill. #auspol
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Queensland inquest into Elizabeth Struhs’ death hears a paediatrician say Child Safety stonewalled warnings about returning her to a mother in ‘the Saints’, who rejected medical care. Her parents are serving 14 years.
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Melbourne supporters may like to attend a free public talk by scholar Luke Beck entitled "When Australian Governments Pray: Religious Privilege and the Fair Go" on Thursday, 12 November 2026, as part of Monash Law's Professorial Lecture Series.

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NSW inquiry into Redeemer Baptist School hears ex-students allege teachers shared beds with pupils on camps and the principal walked naked past a child. Church elders declined to appear, citing HSC exams. #auspol #nswpol
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