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The NSW Government yesterday pushed legislation through both houses of parliament which is aimed at ensuring that ethics classes are run in competition with Scripture classes in NSW schools even if the Opposition wins the election next March. The move followed on from the NSW Opposition’s announcement on November 23 that they would scrap the Continue Reading

What is the point of a “non-judgemental” ethics course? That’s the question posed by ACL’s NSW Director David Hutt writing on the The Punch opinion website. With the NSW Government moving to legislate ethics classes in competition with Scripture classes in NSW primary schools, David says it is time to ask some more probing questions Continue Reading

“It has taken the faiths thousands of years, the persecutions of millions of their followers, the creation of some of the most beautiful literature, art and music in the world, to have their beliefs and traditions so accepted as a part of our society that now, in New South Wales, faiths from Islam to Christianity Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today congratulated the NSW Opposition for making a stand to protect Special Religious Education Classes (SRE). ACL’s NSW Director David Hutt welcomed the announcement by the NSW Opposition that they will scrap the St James Ethics Centre’s secular ethics classes if they win the March 2011 state election.

Media Release The NSW Government’s decision to roll-out ethics classes in primary schools next year actively discriminates against children of faith who will not be able to attend both special religious education (SRE) and ethics classes and also risks undermining a system of teaching SRE which has operated effectively for more than a century, the Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today urged the NSW Government not to rubber-stamp the roll-out of ethics classes in competition with Scripture classes – saying this is a “hot button” issue for the Christian constituency. “Cabinet needs to understand the depth of concern in the Christian constituency and in the community generally about Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today urged the NSW Government to undertake a genuine consultation process over proposed ethics classes in schools. ACL NSW Director David Hutt today said there is widespread community concern that the NSW Government has already made up its mind on the introduction of ethics classes in the Special Continue Reading

ACL’s latest monthly newsletter, which includes Jim Wallace’s column, is out now. This month’s newsletter features a special report on ‘Make it Count Victoria’, as well as articles on euthanasia, our new Tasmania Director, special religious education and more. Please click here to read the ACL Monthly newsletter for October 2010. . . . . Continue Reading

Yesterday nearly two hundred volunteer SRE teachers and religious leaders crammed into the NSW Department of Education and Training’s reception hall for a celebration of Special Religious Education.  Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus joined together to celebrate SRE and to thank the many volunteers who teach scripture classes. The inter-faith event, organised by ICCOREIS and Continue Reading

ACL has cautiously welcomed recent comments by NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell that he does not personally support the NSW Government’s trialled ethics classes. Speaking on ABC’s Stateline programme last Friday, Mr O’Farrell said he would not commit a Coalition Government to supporting the ethics classes. Mr O’Farrell said that, “I don’t favour ethics classes Continue Reading