The Albanese Labor government is moving to remove the compulsory religious element of the national school chaplaincy program. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said the major change was aimed at giving schools greater choice around pastoral care. The voluntary scheme ...

Both the Labor and Liberal parties have said they are determined for the national school chaplaincy program to continue, despite the High Court yesterday ruling its funding invalid. The court ruled in a 6-1 majority that the way the program ...