Author and commentator @janecaro.bsky.social has thrown her support behind our campaign, urging Australians to tick the ‘No religion’ box on the Census “if it’s the truth for you”. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious #Census2026

In a message for our campaign, media personality and assisted dying advocate Andrew Denton speaks about the importance of helping to deliver more accurate Census data for the religion question. Watch his full video on our website: censusnotreligious.org.au/2026/08/01/a... #Census26 #NotReligious

We welcome a Victorian parliamentary committee’s call for new laws to address coercive control in high-control groups and for reform of federal charities laws to ensure greater accountability of such groups. Read more: rationalist.com.au/rsa-welcomes... #SpringSt

RSA welcomes recommendations from parliamentary inquiry into coercive control in cults | Rationalist Society of Australia

The Rationalist Society of Australia welcomes a Victorian parliamentary committee’s call for new laws to address coercive control in high-control groups and for reform of federal charities laws to ens...

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Operation Rosny, the Victorian cults inquiry, VAD, and more. Welcome to the 1 August 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...

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ICAC's Operation Rosny is probing allegedly illegal Liberal donations filtered through Catholic Schools NSW. Why is a publicly funded Catholic education body caught up in party factional warfare? #auspol www.theage.com.au/national/nsw...

How does Liberal plotting and branch-stacking fit into God’s plan?

That may not be the question for the ICAC, but it’s one that many of us are asking.

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has itself acknowledged that the #religion question used in the Census “may lead respondents to a particular response”. But you don’t have to be tricked by the leading nature of the question. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious

The ban needs to go asap. Terminally ill Aussies pay the cost - especially our rural & remote. Tom's docs travelled 8,500 km in 3 weeks. And the medication didn't reach Tom in time. @albomp.bsky.social explain which of those km protected Tom or made him safer? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Should there be a telehealth ban on voluntary assisted dying?

Sarah Ferguson presents Australia's premier daily current affairs program, delivering agenda-setting public affairs journalism and interviews that hold the powerful to account. Plus political analysis...

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In an editorial today about allegations heard by a corruption inquiry in New South Wales, the Sydney Morning Herald has called for the Catholic school system to provide greater transparency over the use of public funds. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw... #NSWpol #auspol

Time for Catholics to be transparent about their use of other people’s money

The freewheeling days when NSW Catholic schools did not have to account for how they spent taxpayers funds must end.

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Surveys show Australia is less religious than the Census suggests — but it's the Census that shapes policy and funding. If you're not religious, marking 'No religion' helps build the real picture: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious #Census2026

Archbishop Peter Comensoli has urged Anthony Albanese to retain the Commonwealth VAD telehealth ban — which threatens doctors with a $364,000 fine for "inciting or counselling" suicide by a carriage service — after Labor delegates voted to overturn it. #auspol cathnews.com/2026/07/27/r...

Religious leaders urge PM to hold firm on telehealth VAD ban  - CathNews

Religious leaders have urged Anthony Albanese to hold his ground against his own Left faction after Labor delegates voted to overturn a federal ban on voluntary assisted dying telehealth appointments....

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Welcome to the 25 July 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...

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Robin Brown & Nick Bogiatzis argue that the politics behind Pauline Hanson's call for a monocultural Australia rests on an unsupported claim to Christian foundations: the values are human, not Western. https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/07/multiculturalism-is-the-middle-ground-australia-needs/

Multiculturalism is the middle ground Australia needs

In the first of a two-part series, Robin Brown and Nick Bogiatzis argue that the moral values claimed as Western are common human values – and deeply present in the world

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As someone who left a high-control religious group, Sherrie knows that the Census can be an opportunity for many people who have lived in silence to finally have their voices heard on the matter of religious affiliation. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #MyCensusStory #Census26 #NotReligious

Welcome to the 18 July 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...

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If you agree that the Australian Bureau of Statistics should stop using a leading question about religious affiliation at future Censuses, then add your name to our new petition! Sign here: www.change.org/p/fix-the-ce... #Census26 #notreligious #auspol

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Fix the Census question on religion so we can all rely on accurate data

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The leading nature of the Census religion question undercounts the non-religious population by more than 10 percentage points, reveals a new survey commissioned by our campaign. Read our article and download the full report: censusnotreligious.org.au/2026/07/14/n... #Census26 #NotReligious

The Guardian reports that a new poll commissioned by our campaign confirms that the question used in the Census overstates Australia's religiosity — by more than 10 per cent. #Census26 #NotReligious www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Losing our religion? Australia would no longer be majority religious if format of census question changed, survey finds

Ahead of the census in August, campaign group suggests current poll design overstates the nation’s religiousness

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Welcome to the 11 July 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...

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Private schools want the $1.2bn Choice and Affordability Fund kept past 2029. Catholic schools draw $740m, Independents $464m, public schools nothing — extra cash outside the needs-based model, handed to the sectors to maintain their privileged funding. #auspol saveourschools.com.au/funding/priv...

Census data shapes how schools, hospitals and community services are planned and funded. Inaccurate answers distort that picture. If you're not religious, marking 'No religion' helps keep it fair. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious

Hard-right 'NSW Reformers' drew members to the Liberals by warning Christian values were disappearing from society. The faction is now central to ICAC's Operation Rosny corruption probe, The Age reports. #auspol #nswpol www.theage.com.au/politics/nsw...

The godly mission to control the NSW Liberals which grabbed ICAC’s attention

A series of events boasting high-profile Liberals including Catholic schools boss Dallas McInerney formed a key plank of a plot by the hard right to take out factional enemies.

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New Monash research finds teaching methods linked to indoctrination — emotional manipulation and lower-order thinking — are common in the religious instruction curricula run in Australian public primary schools. #auspol #PublicEducation rationalist.com.au/indoctrinati...

Indoctrination teaching methods prevalent in public schools’ religious instruction programs, research shows | Rationalist Society of Australia

Teaching practices associated with indoctrination, such as an emphasis on lower-order thinking and emotional manipulation, are prevalent in religious instruction curricula used in Australian public pr...

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Welcome to the 4 July 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...

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If you were raised in a particular religion as a kid but have since made up your own mind, this year's Census provides an opportunity to answer how you wish. Have your say at Census time and mark 'No religion'. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious

An inquiry into the 2025 federal election says democracy came "under assault" from third parties named as the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church and Advance. It urges a mandatory code of conduct at polling booths & a wider look at "domestic interference". #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Democracy ‘under assault’ from significant third parties at 2025 federal election, parliamentary inquiry finds

Parliamentary inquiry recommends new laws to police behaviour at polling booths

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Tasmanian Greens have released a draft bill to ban LGBTQ conversion practices, still legal in Tasmania, WA, the NT and Queensland. It sets up a prevention framework and criminal offences, with a vote due in September. #auspol #politas qnews.com.au/greens-relea...

Greens release new legislation to ban conversion therapy in Tasmania

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The bundling together of the Lord's Prayer and Acknowledgement of Country is weak justification for not taking action. One is a show of respect to the traditional owners of the land on which Parliament meets, the other is an act of worship that officially endorses a single religion. #auspol

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Despite there being “widespread support” among MPs for the WA parliament to stop imposing daily acts of Christian worship, Premier Roger Cook is defending the practice, arguing that parliament is a “special institution”. Read more: rationalist.com.au/premier-cook... #WApol

When Jason first completed the #Census by himself, he thought the religion question was asking about his family heritage or the religion he was baptised as. At this year's Census, he won't be making that mistake again. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious

If you’re not sure about your religious or spiritual identity, or how to best answer the religion question at this year's Census, spend a couple of minutes taking this simple quiz. 👉 discover.censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #notreligious

Parliament may be in recess but the scaffolding of religious privilege nonetheless got a good inspection this week. Welcome to the 27 June 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...

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Catch up on the latest Australian secular news with the NSL's Weekend Wrap for 27 June 2026.

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