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Polling results published in The Australian today point to the urgent need for a Religious Freedom Commissioner within the Australian Human Rights Commission to help educate Australians on this vital freedom, according to Christian Schools Australia.

The article, Most Australians oppose faith-based hiring for religious schools, suggests on the basis of polling undertaken on behalf of the Centre for Independent Studies, that ‘More than half of Australians oppose giving religious schools and organisations the right to discriminate on the basis of faith when appointing staff’. 

In contrast, independent polling undertaken for Christian schools has consistently shown very strong support for employment on the basis of faith within religious schools.

More than 77% of Australians, said ‘Yes’ When asked, “Do you support the right of a religious school to employ teachers and other staff who support the values and beliefs of the school, if those values and beliefs are clearly stated?”.  There was majority support from across the political spectrum, with support growing to nearly 90% of parents with a child in a faith-based school.

‘It is vital that we establish a Religious Discrimination Commissioner who can educate the public about the importance of religious freedom and the needs of faith based organisations’, said Mark Spencer, Director of Public Policy for Christian Schools Australia.

‘People will naturally oppose discrimination, as do we, but when presented with a clear question they understand that it is just common sense for religious schools to employ staff who share their beliefs’.

‘The results today point to why we need a Religious Discrimination Commissioner to help Australians understand that religious schools appointing staff who share their beliefs is not discrimination and is, in fact, the exercising of a fundamental human right’, he said.

‘Christian schools are different’, Mr Spencer said, ‘and that difference largely comes from  the staff who share our beliefs and are committed to sharing their faith with students’.

‘Regardless of any polling, Australians are increasingly attracted to our schools, voting with their wallets to support schools where faith and belief is the foundation of what they do’.

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CLP Senator Jacinta Price has been given the Indigenous Australians portfolio for the Coalition.

Confirming the appointment, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said:

“I’m absolutely delighted that Senator Jacinta Price will take on the role of shadow minister for Indigenous Australians.

“Many Australians know Jacinta well. She’s a fighter. She’s a warrior for Indigenous Australians. And she’s a very proud Territorian.”

Jacinta Price said she is deeply humbled to be appointed the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians.

“I have fought for years for the improvement of the lives of our most marginalised Australians while working for a unified Australia.

“My commitment to Australia and our marginalised continues from a now strengthened position,” added Price.

Senator Price has served as a senator for the Northern Territory since 2022.  She has previously served as Deputy Mayor of Alice Springs. Her mother, Bess Price, was a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2012 to 2016.

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Suncorp is the latest corporation to go woke, offering staff six weeks’ paid ‘gender affirmation’ leave and up to 12 months unpaid leave.

The leave will reportedly allow for “legal and medical affirmation”.

“Financially incentivising gender confusion is wrong”, said FamilyVoice Australia spokesman David d’Lima.

“Suncorp should immediately reconsider this dangerous move.

“To call it ‘gender affirmation’ leave is misleading because trangenderism in reality is a rejection of one’s gender.”

Sex change is not possible, as Walt Heyer, a man who previously identified as a woman, told a FamilyVoice webinar in 2021:

People taking hormones like I did, or undergoing surgery, as a court document that I have on record, the surgeon who performed my surgery and one of the authors of the standards of care for transgender care, signed off on in superior court of California, acknowledge in that document to the court that you cannot change a male into a female no matter how much surgery no matter how much hormones.

Andrew McColl on Vision radio generic

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Upper house vote on Thursday, 19 May 2022

FOR EUTHANASIA

Barrett

Field

Primrose

Boyd

Graham

Roberts

Buttigieg (teller)

Higginson

Searle

Cusack

Hurst

Sharpe

D'Adam

Jackson

Taylor

Faehrmann

Mallard (teller)

Veitch

Fang

Mitchell

Ward

Farraway

Pearson

  
     

AGAINST EUTHANASIA

Amato

Houssos (teller)

Moselmane

Banasiak

Latham

Nile

Borsak

Martin

Poulos

Donnelly

Mookhey

Rath

Farlow (teller)

Moriarty

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