Who is Richard Bolt, Secretary for Education, Victoria?
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WHO IS RICHARD BOLT, SECRETARY OF THE EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT, VICTORIA
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WHO IS RICHARD BOLT, SECRETARY OF THE EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT, VICTORIA
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KEVIN DONNELLY AND CORPORAL PUNISHMENT:
TAKING PUBLIC EDUCATION BACK TO THE DENOMINATIONAL SYSTEM
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VICTORIA OPEN FOR BUSINESS: PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR SALE
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THE CHAPLAINCY CASE: WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
Supporters of Public Education are facing an all-out attack on their education systems. How are they reacting?
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TAXATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION
5 June 2014
David Hastie promotes denominationalism as an Australian ideological sprawl in which any and every religion and religious school flourish at taxpayers expense. He accuses Marion Maddox of ‘Big Secularism’—the ‘determination to ban government support for religious activities’.
If so, she is in illustrious company: Thomas Jefferson and Founding Fathers of the American Constitution; Andrew Inglis Clark, major draftsman of the Australian Constitution; Henry Bournes Higgins and Founding Fathers who placed Section 116 in the Australian Constitution;[i] and Justice Lionel Murphy, dissenter in the 1981 DOGS case. Some might say, Christ himself.[ii]
There is a direct relationship between
· the recommendations of David Roscombe and Murdoch through the Institute of Public Affairs,
· the recommendations of the Australian Commission of Audit and
· the Budget announcements.
The weak religious freedoms of Australian citizens has been exposed by the Chaplaincy in Public Schools issue.
The latest diversionary attack on public education, the cornerstone of our once fiercely democratic country, has been launched on those middle class families who actually BELIEVE in public education. Jennifer Buckingham of the Centre for Independent Studies recommends that such parents should ‘be forced to pay $1000 for this ‘Belief’