Rod,
re your brawl with vic ed... are there schools in Victoria which teach
Aboriginal dreaming or other religions apart from the Christian one(s)? My
objection to my children receiving religious education has been not that
Christianity's belief systems shouldn't be shared, but that other religions
deserve equal airplay.
I am particularly interested in whether and how Aboriginal dreaming is
taught in primary schools, re our work on North Stradbroke/Minjerribah and
policy suggestions for the school.
Thanks,
Dee
Dee Elliott
Elliott Whiteing & Associates
PO Box 818 Cooroy 4563 Q. Australia
(61) 7 54477440
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> From: Rod Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [recoznet2] RE: ABC Newslink - Labor Member questions God's
inclusion inpreambl
> Date: Monday, 22 February 1999 17:05
>
> At 08:33 AM 22/2/99, Trudy and Rod Bray wrote:
> >I don't think he said that 30% were atheists, Peter, in fact, the
> >percentage of those is actually
> >very small.
>
> The last census doesn't indicate that 30% are atheists.
>
> It does, however indicate that 16.6% of people indicated that they
followed
> no religion in 1996 and that a further 9% didn't answer the question.
>
> Moreover the number of people indicating no religion had grown by some
35%
> since the previous census compared with, for a example, a 2.9% fall in
the
> number of people identifying as Anglican.
>
> If the same growth/fall rates have been sustained since 1996 there are
now
> far more atheists / agnostics in Australia than there are Anglicans.
>
> The number of people indicating that they pursue no religion vastly
exceeds
> the number of people who identify as Muslim , Hindu etc (three times the
> number in fact). There are more people indicating "no religion" than
all
> of the other christian groups combined apart from Anglican and Catholic.
> After Anglicans and Catholics, people without a religion made up the
third
> largest group in the Australian community in 1996. I suspect that by now
> only the Catholics outnumber them (us).
>
> (source ABS Web data on religious affiliation.)
>
> My own view is that the preamble should state that we are a secular
state,
> which recognises the freedom of people to either believe, or not believe,
> as their personal conscience dictates.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rod
> (who is in the middle of a bit of a brawl about whether religious
education
> should be given the prominence which it is at the local Victorian state
> school!)
>
> Rod Hagen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hurstbridge, Victoria, Australia
> WWW http://www.netspace.net.au/~rodhagen
>
>
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