An Australia Institute and Rationalist Society of Australia survey found 71 per cent of Australians do not know public school pastoral care workers are hired based on religion instead of qualifications. Two in three of the 1,379 respondents said they ...

Coalition may seek other means of keeping program alive. The High Court has decided that the federal government can no longer fund chaplaincy. The court found that the National School Chaplaincy and Student Welfare Program was invalid due because it ...

The Senate has passed emergency government legislation to validate payments for the national school chaplaincy program which were overturned by the High Court. Another 427 grants and programs whose validity may be at risk also are covered by the draft ...