High Court strikes down chaplaincy funding
Posted on June 19, 2014
Filed under Australia
“Funding for school chaplains has been declared constitutionally invalid for the second time by the High Court of Australia…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has reassured the community of the government’s commitment to the program when he said it ‘very much supports [the program] and wants it to continue’. It follows the announcement in May to continue to fund the program a further $244 million over four years.
In the Senate Question time today, Senator Brandis said “It is important to note that in arriving at that conclusion, the Court did not deal with the merits of the program, merely that the question of whether it fell within a particularly constitutional definition”…”
– Report from The Australian Christian Lobby.
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