Welcome to the Humanist Society of Victoria Incorporated (HSV).

It works to build a more civilized society, fostering ethics based on human values.

It considers that reason, free inquiry and a scientific approach enable us to understand the universe and our place in it.

It defends freedom and democracy and provides a positive alternative to religious and dogmatic creeds.

It supports separation of church and state, and secular education.

Important Update – the aftermath

Following the publishing of The Sunday Age article titled ‘Backlash as God forced into schools’, the Humanist Society website crashed after receiving so many enquiries from parents who were unhappy with the current state of religious instruction in our public primary schools.  And this was not even the URL provided in the article!

Added to this the new parents advocacy group FIRIS (Fairness In Religions In School) has been bombarded with offers of help and further examples of troubling complaints of discrimination. Virtually all of these emails were in support of the FIRIS stance.

There is more to come, ensure you subscribe to the FIRIS newsletter which can be found on their website and please sign up to our own newsletter for all our upcoming campaigns, events and media releases.

Related posts:

  1. Reactions to the Sunday Age article
  2. Supporting the ethics trial, a clickable checklist
  3. Humanism info for State primary school parents

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