National Secular Lobby
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| Formation | 2017 |
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Region | Australia |
| Website | www |
The National Secular Lobby is an Australian pro-secular organisation, founded in July 2017 and officially launched in January 2018. It aims to promote secular principles and the separation of church and state in Australia.[1]
The National Secular Lobby combines the building of grassroots awareness and action with the direct lobbying of parliamentarians by high profile ambassadors. It has made submissions to various parliamentary inquiries, including the Religious Freedom Review[2] (2018), the 2021 Census Topic Review[3] (2018), and the Parliamentary Prayers Inquiry[4] (2018).
In 2023, the National Secular Lobby was one of the groups (along with the NSW Teachers Federation, Rationalist Society of Australia and Humanists Victoria) who co-organised and co-sponsored the inaugural Secularism Australia Conference.[5]
Ambassadors
[edit]Current National Secular Lobby ambassadors are:
- Phillip Adams
- Van Badham
- Lazaras Panayiotou
- Julian Burnside
- Jane Caro
- Fiona Patten
- Chris Schacht
- Dr Paul Willis
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "The Secular Agenda". National Secular Lobby. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ^ "National Secular Lobby submission to the Religious Freedom Review" (PDF). National Secular Lobby. 15 January 2018.
- ^ "National Secular Lobby submission to the 2021 Census Topic Review". Australian Bureau of Statistics. 30 June 2018.
- ^ "National Secular Lobby submission to the Parliamentary Prayers Inquiry". Australian Federal Government. 27 July 2018.
- ^ "Secularism Australia Conference 2023 Sponsors". Secularism Australia Conference. 1 August 2023.