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  1. Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.

    Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.

    On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.

    Click below for full content.

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  2. Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.

    Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.

    On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.

    Click below for full content.

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  3. Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.

    Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.

    On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.

    Click below for full content.

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  4. Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.

    Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.

    On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.

    Click below for full content.

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  5. Welcome to the 9 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has held its first week of public hearings in Sydney, and the testimony was both specific and systemic. Holocaust survivors afraid to wear the Star of David. A Jewish teacher who feared for his life at the Sydney Mardi Gras. Children asking their school psychologist, "Why do they hate us?" These are not abstract statistics; they are the human cost of vilification being treated as a matter of robust debate rather than a concrete harm.

    Meanwhile, a separate and persistent form of institutional obstruction was documented this week in the aged care sector. Go Gentle Australia's national report found that 73% of major aged care providers either block Voluntary Assisted Dying or fail to disclose their position to residents, and that 66% publish no information at all about availability of VAD despite it being legal in every Australian state. Religiously operated facilities are disproportionately represented among the obstructers.

    On LGBTQI+ rights, this week delivered both progress and exposure. New South Wales passed landmark hate crime legislation expanding protections for LGBTQIA+ people, the Latham vilification ruling continued to generate parliamentary fallout, and a 47-year-old Western Australian man was charged with distributing thousands of anti-LGBTQ+ flyers across Perth — in a state that still has no vilification laws protecting LGBTQIA+ people. That gap is not an oversight; it's a choice.

    Click below for full content.

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  6. It's that time again! The religious homophobes are actively trying to invade secular homeschool spaces to tell us how we're all going to hell.

    #secularhomeschool
    #secular
    #homeschool
    #religioustwats
    #freedomfromreligion

  7. Welcome to the 2 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  8. Welcome to the 2 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  9. Welcome to the 2 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  10. Welcome to the 2 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  11. Welcome to the 2 May 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism

    nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wra

  12. After years of allowing #religious schools in some settings to receive #state #funding alongside #secular schools, the 6-3 #conservative court will now decide what to do when school leaders assert that anti-#discrimination laws intended to protect #gay & #transgender people conflict with their religious beliefs. The appeal from the Catholic parishes will likely be heard in the fall & a decision is likely sometime next year.

    #law #heterosexism #bigotry #hate #SCOTUS #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt

  13. RE: mastodon.social/@jlou/11640492

    It can be shown that the set of omniscient beings is empty using the sentence:

    This sentence isn’t known to be true by any omniscient being.

    Since some religions hinge on omniscient being existing, this sentence shows the fallacy involved in those religions.

    #atheism #atheist #secularism #secular #theism #theist #religion #philosophy

  14. I would welcome #advice on building a community on #Mastodon for our #educationalcharity. We support #Humanistschools in #Uganda. They are #inclusive schools based on #reason, #compassion and #tolerance. We support 2 #highschools and 7 #primaryschools. Schools welcome children of #allbeliefs - #religious and #secular. All are treated with #dignity and #respect and encouraged to #value the #opinions of others.
    We have a website ugandahumanistschoolstrust.org and a Facebook page facebook.com/ugandahumanistsch.

  15. "Baptisms, religious posters and assignments, imposed prayer and distribution of religious texts are common violations in public schools, which particularly marginalize those who are not Christian, religious or often Christians who are not Catholic or evangelical."

    #ChurchAndState #education #school #secular #activism

    freethoughttoday.com/sections/

  16. RE: snabelen.no/@hopland/115849494

    Knowing how #secular people and #humanist organizations will be targeted by #Project25, it's important to note that they'll be the first out of many.

    The quote here is relevant.