It is the unelected Australian Law Reform Commission, established in 1975 and currently headed by Judge Mordecai Bromberg, recommending that faith-based schools be F0RCED to employ staff and enrol students whose way of life and beliefs contradict such schools’ religious beliefs.

Many parents, also paying the taxes that support public schools, are prepared to pay extra to protect their children from the secular curriculum, where climate change, identity politics and victimhood, plus neo-Marxist-inspired postcolonial and LGBTIQA+ ideologies are taught.

If this right to choose is lost, there will be no reason to keep Christian schools open, and the public system will be overwhelmed. Why would parents spend money on Christian schools if the teaching is going to be the same as that in public schools - non-Christian.

Ironically, and probably not generally known, but coming from an Anglican Archbishop's office, the then government made an approach to see if the religious system could take over the government education system more economically than they could.

Nothing came of it, obviously; but it shows that we don’t know what governments and their bureaucrats get up to behind our backs. They are not to be trusted. Particularly the Albanese government. Albanese said that he would not touch this area unless he had bipartisans support (unlikely), and has now said he might do a deal with the Greens.

Christianity is not the only religion in Australia, but it's the one copping all the flak. It will be interesting to see if the same loss of freedoms and rights will be visited on Islam, or example, and what the reaction will be.

The ACL reports that both Muslim and Jewish school authorities have shown interest in joining the resistance.

It all boils down to allowing religious schools to be bigoted and discriminatory. Having government funding of "faith" based teaching by only teachers acceptable to the religion, no matter how crazy, weird or ridiculous that teaching might be. The Catholics can bring back those brothers and priest doing time in prison now, to instil a little old fashioned "faith" into children, just like they did in the good old days!

Dear Ttbn,

«If this right to choose is lost, there will be no reason to keep Christian schools open»

Of course they will remain open - they will just go underground!

This won't apply to Islamic schools although it might apply to Jewish ones. No anti-Islam teacher is going to be stupid enough to want to teach in a Mohammedan school where they know the main form of counter-argument is violence.

You can rub the noses of the local Anglicans in it because you know they'll turn the other cheek. No so the followers of Mohamad.

Of course, we can take this anti-discrimination thing further, especially as regards public funding. The annual ponce down Oxford St aka the Madi Gras Parade, is government funded. Its highly discriminatory that the Catholocs aren't allowed to have a float, perhaps one displaying Leviticus 18:22...."You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."

You know, just to be non-discriminatory.

Yuyutsu

Underground? Just like China, where Christians are still persecuted, underground or not.

Sounds like something Xi-inspired Albanese would be comfortable with; but not of much use to Christians themselves.

In the meantime, the success of growing anti-Semitism in Australia will eventually emboldened the Left to intensity their hatred of Christianity, and people of both faiths will never feel safe again - underground or anywhere else.

Faith-based schools are up front. Parents know what their kids will be taught, the main reason why they choose to opt out of the public system, where teachers still have their personal beliefs, about which parents know nothing, but which can still be passed on, consciously or unconsciously.