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		<title>Next public speaker &#8211; Kelvin Thomson, MHR</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Thomson will speak on &#8216;The Humanist case for population reform&#8217; 7:30 for 8 pm Meeting Room Balwyn Library 336 Whitehorse Rd, Balwyn (Melway Map 46 E8)]]></description>
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		<title>February 2012 newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial &#8211; Remodelling religion in schools. II by President Stephen Stuart page 3: How do our State primary schools do religion by Teresa Puszka Let us adopt a village of Untouchables (Dalits) by Halina Strnad and much more]]></description>
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		<title>December newsletter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial: Food for all? page 2: Remodelling religion in schools by Stephen Stuart, president page 2: Dying With Dignity &#8211; Victoria by Halina Strnad page 3: The place of  philosophy and religious education in Australian secular education by Christopher Dargan reported by Jennie Mills &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>SRI discrimination case adjourned to 1 March 2012 &#8211; join us in court</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 1 to 9 March our adjourned case against discrimination caused by special religious instruction (SRI) in State schools will be addressed by VCAT. The compulsory confidential mediation hearing in August produced some concessions by the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development but did not stop the discrimination. Now the case just keeps getting <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2011/12/anti-sri-case-adjourned-to-20-february-2012-join-us-in-court-for-seven-days-2/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Plato, Biscuits and Waltzing Matilda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On Friday 25 November, 9:15 am, the ethics of the participants in Banjo Paterson&#8217;s song, Waltzing Matilda, was discussed at the regular meeting of the philosophy club, Plato and Biscuits, at The Wattle Club centre, Underwood Street, Ferntree Gully. Little would Paterson have realised the issues that he had raised: squatting on someone else&#8217;s land, <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2011/11/plato-biscuits-and-waltzing-matilda/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lobbying the politicians</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In June 2011 the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development advised school parents to lobby their politicians on any concerns over special religious instruction. Two of us HSV members began to visit our MPs forthwith, one of us being a primary school parent and the other a primary school grandparent. In addition to <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2011/11/lobbying-the-politicians/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Secular workers added to chaplaincy programme &#8211; well hardly secular</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8221;There&#8217;s many a slip twixt cup and lip.&#8221; Greek and English proverb It was great to read in The Age of two months ago that the National Chaplaincy program was being extended to permit schools to hire secular counsellors who would not proselytise their children, but, since it seemed too good to be true, we wrote to <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2011/11/secular-workers-added-to-chaplaincy-programme-well-hardly-secular/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>UN Day of Remembrance for road trauma</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  At noon today about one hundred people, including five Humanists, assembled in Queen&#8217;s Hall, Parliament House, Victoria, to participate in a moving ceremony convened by Road Trauma Support Services. Photographs of deceased were displayed on a table in front of the lectern. The service was led by Rev. Andrew Calder, but mercifully not too <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2011/11/un-day-of-remembrance-for-road-trauma/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Untouchability &#8211; Adopt a Dalit Village in India</title>
		<link>http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2011/11/untouchability/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=untouchability</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Untouchable castes occur in several countries, but notably in India and Nigeria. As described by the immediate past president, Roy Brown (left), the International Humanist and Ethical Union has relief work established in India and donations are welcome. &#8211; HG    More &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Dennett visits Melbourne</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, 6:30 pm 15 instant at Melbourne University, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Prof Daniel Dennett, spoke on the Evolution of Purposes with the aid of computing science. The designer of this website and host of Singularity Summit 2010, Adam A. Ford (left), got together with Horseman Dan (right). &#8211; HG]]></description>
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