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		<title>Submission for the Inquiry into the Definition of Charity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr John L Perkins The Government has called for public comment on its Consultation Paper on the definition of charity, http://www.treasury.gov.au/contentitem.asp?NavId=&#38;ContentID=2161. This is part of the process for the introduction of a statutory definition of charity that will become applicable across all Commonwealth laws from 1 July 2013. The following is the Secular Party&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secularparty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24709009&amp;post=95&amp;subd=secularparty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No mystery in Afghan soldier attacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr John L Perkins Letter to the Editor, The Age, by John Perkins. There should be no mystery as to why Australian soldiers are being shot in the back by their erstwhile Afghan allies (Clive Williams 14/11). It is only a mystery because we underestimate the role of religious ideology in such conflicts. Those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secularparty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24709009&amp;post=88&amp;subd=secularparty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Census 2011: counting the heads of the faithful</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 12:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Moira Clarke What is your religion? The census campaign asks you to stop and think about how you respond to that question on August 9th. This article explores why the numbers are debatable and why it matters. Once every five years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts a national census [1]. Government departments use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secularparty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24709009&amp;post=68&amp;subd=secularparty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The fight for ethics classes in schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by John August It has been a long, uphill battle getting ethics classes into NSW state schools as an alternative to religious education. John August, founding member of the Secular Party, describes the situation as it stands today. We urge all members and supporters to take an active interest in this topic, since the program [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secularparty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24709009&amp;post=53&amp;subd=secularparty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon tax is a phony proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr John L Perkins The Gillard government has finally unveiled its carbon tax plan &#8212; but does it deliver on its supposed goal of tackling climate change? John Perkins, Senior Economist at the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research, takes a hard look at Labor&#8217;s strategy, and finds it wanting. The government&#8217;s carbon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secularparty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24709009&amp;post=36&amp;subd=secularparty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching our kids ethics, not dogma</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ian Bryce Secular groups in NSW have finally won the right to provide classes on ethics to schoolchildren, as an alternative to SRE (Special Religious Education). Secular Party Vice President, Ian Bryce, gives us the background on the program and writes about his personal experiences as a volunteer instructor. The teaching of ethics in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=secularparty.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24709009&amp;post=21&amp;subd=secularparty&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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