Posts tagged Children
Inquiry into the under 16 social media ban

In our modern era, social media is absolutely essential to freedom of speech. Both children and adults have a right to freedom of speech. No doubt the right of children to speak is not as broad as that of an adult. No doubt, children are entitled to protection from some of the harms that might flow from freedom of speech. But they do have a right to access social media to communicate with their friends and to seek information.

 

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School Chaplaincy program violates separation of Church and State

The Queensland Council for Civil Liberties has today called on the Commonwealth Government to cancel its school chaplaincy program in the light of today’s report on the program by the Ombudsman which provides evidence supporting claims that it is being carried on in breach of the principle of the separation of the church from the state.

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