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		<title>The Road Less Travelled – Public Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 02:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 16 April 2012 the University of Melbourne saw Chris Stedman, PZ Myers and Leslie Cannold discuss the question, Can believers and atheists work together for the common good? The forum was sponsored by Rationalist Society of Australia, Humanist Society of Victoria, InterAction, Embiggen Books and Global Atheist Convention. Chris Stedman is the first Interfaith and <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2012/05/the-road-less-travelled-%e2%80%93-public-forum/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>No Evangelists in State Schools! &#8211; Public Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 07:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;     Lyn Allison, Mary Bluett , John Bornas, Anna Halafoff, Georgia Morrissey and Andrea Tsalamandris Reforming Ethics and Religious Education in State Primary Schools Sunday 24 June 2012* 2 &#8211; 5 pm, free entry Village Roadshow Theatrette State Library, La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Entry 3 * Please Note: Initially announced for 22 April, but postponed <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2012/05/no-evangelists-in-state-schools-public-forum/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Read the latest news</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[p 1 Editorial, The Road Less Travelled, by Stephen Stuart p 4  Submissions on Marriage Equality, School Funding, Organ Donation p 5  Will Australia be a fairer of more just society in the future than in the past? &#8211; report by Jennie Stuart on a lecture by Peter Norden, AO More, together with earlier issues]]></description>
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		<title>Next Public Speaker, Adam van Langenberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                  Adam van Langenberg (schoolteacher) on                     Running a high school sceptical society.  Next speaker to be heard on Thursday, 24 May, 2012, 7:30 for 8 pm, Meeting Room, Balwyn Library, 336 Whitehorse Rd, Balwyn (Melway Map 46 E8) -]]></description>
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		<title>Useful interview about everyday ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Simon Longstaff, of St James Ethics Centre, Sydney, explains ethics in terms of considered and responsible choice, and as different from morality, by which he means complying with a ready-made checklist of rules. Click here for the radio interview today on ABC RN Sunday Profile. Stephen Stuart]]></description>
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		<title>IHEU 18th Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking on the Congress theme Humanism and peace on the opening day, 12 August 2011, of the eighteenth World Humanist Congress in Oslo, Crown Prince Haakon said, “Every day we are reminded of our differences and the reasons why there is confrontation and violence in the world. But what is truly needed is the opposite: <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2012/03/iheu-18th-congress/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Media release: Test case of religious discrimination in State schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[     From the left. Our anti-discrimination case was at VCAT, King Street, Melbourne, before Mr Justice Timothy Ginnane with Ms Melinda Richards, counsel for the complainants, and Ms Rowena Orr, counsel for the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (pix from FOI Solutions and Vicbar, respectively). &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Today, 9 <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2012/03/media-release-test-case-of-religious-discrimination-in-state-schools-2/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>LAST public speaker &#8211; Peter Norden, A.O.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Norden, AO (adjunct professor, RMIT University) ‘Will Australia be a fairer or more just society in the future than in the past?’  WAS held Thursday, 22 March, 2012, 7:30 for 8 pm, Meeting Room, Balwyn Library, 336 Whitehorse Rd, Balwyn (Melway Map 46 E8)   A report will be published in the May issue of the Victorian Humanist <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2012/03/next-public-speaker-peter-norden/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>SRI discrimination case resumes Thursday 8 March &#8211; join us in court</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special religious instruction (SRI) occupies a privileged position in State primary schools and has come in for public criticism on several levels, since 2008, when this Society petitioned for a secular alternative. Some aggrieved parents laid a complaint, that the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development neglected its duty of care for students opted-out <a href='http://www.victorianhumanist.com/2012/03/sri-discrimination-case-in-court-tomorrow-1march-join-us-in-court/'>[...]</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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