Taking God to School: The End of Australia's Egalitarian Education?

Fewer Australians now practice a religion or believe in God than ever. Yet the Australian government increasingly pushes conservative Christianity on children. Nearly 40 per cent of secondary students attend a private school, which are overwhelmingly Christian. Canberra funds them heavily, and sends evangelical Christian chaplains into both public and private schools. Some states subsidize Christian volunteers to deliver religious instruction, and some make Christian ministry a matriculatio...