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Peter Monk

@unfairrobot.bsky.social
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AusPol / Secular activism / Web dev / Gaming / Tech / Music / Writing. Winner, 2022 Nobel Prize for Procrastination.

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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder that this kind of dodgy graft is what PHON live for and that this is how they'll run the country. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One Nation admits using party funds to build $56,000 shed on James Ashby’s private property
Email to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Operation Rosny, the Victorian cults inquiry, VAD, and more. Welcome to the 1 August 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...
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Weekend Wrap for 1 August 2026 - National Secular Lobby
Catch up on the latest Australian secular news with the NSL's Weekend Wrap for 1 August 2026.
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Welcome to the 25 July 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...
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Weekend Wrap for 25 July 2026 - National Secular Lobby
Catch up on the latest Australian secular news with the NSL's Weekend Wrap for 25 July 2026.
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Tony Parry @tonyparry17.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Tribute at the #WorldCup to the 168 innocent girls MURDERED by US forces under the command of #TrumpThePaedo.
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One Nation's anti-abortion turn isn't organic — it's imported. Historian Prudence Flowers traces the MAGA playbook and influencer Joanna Howe's role in reshaping the party's agenda. #auspol theconversation.com/one-nations-ant…
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One Nation’s anti-abortion turn shows MAGA’s creeping power in Australia
Despite a long history of being pro-choice, Pauline Hanson is adopting an array of Trumpian tactics – including trying to wind back abortion access.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Never forget that as Elon Musk became a trillionaire today, it is estimated that 750,000 people have died as a result of his cutting of USAID. The majority of those deaths were children.
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Census – Not Religious? Mark 'No Religion'. @censusnotreligious.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Do you mark 'Jedi', 'Pastafarian', or similar as a joke at Census time? It's important to mark 'No religion' if you're not really religious. Not being included in the 'No religion' count means non-religious Aussies continue to be under-represented: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious
If no religion you have, 'No religion' you should mark.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Too good.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"Man of his word Barnaby Joyce, who would never so much even think of betraying a vow or going back on a promise, has spoken out against abortion, saying that women must follow through with the lifelong commitment of having a child." 🤣 #auspol #abortion theshovel.com.au/2026/06/04/b...
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Bloke Who Can’t Commit to Wife or Party Reckons Women Should Be Forced To Make Lifelong Commitment — The Shovel
Man of his word Barnaby Joyce, who would never so much even think of betraying a vow or going back on a promise, has spoken out against abortion, saying that women must follow through with the lifelon...
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Welcome to the 6 June 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...
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Weekend Wrap for 6 June 2026 - National Secular Lobby
Catch up on the latest Australian secular news with the NSL's Weekend Wrap for 6 June 2026.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Yikes - a Professor of Law employed as a teacher by Adelaide University thinks facts don't matter. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anti-abortion activist concedes pictures of human foetuses may have been sugar glider joeys
Joanna Howe posts on social media that if purported images of human foetuses are in fact sugar gliders, ‘it doesn’t actually matter’
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Census – Not Religious? Mark 'No Religion'. @censusnotreligious.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In 2024, the ABS had been well on track to test its new religion question, ‘Does the person have a religion?’ But then religious lobbyists put their foot down and demanded the Albanese government intervene. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au/census-question-background #Census26 #NotReligious
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
A Gartner survey found 80% of companies piloting #AI went on to cut workforce but that there was no correlation between layoffs and return on AI investment. Genuine gains were seen by companies that gave workers AI tools rather than replacing workers with AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EvI...
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Companies That Fired Workers For AI Are Failing
YouTube video by House of El - AI
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Census – Not Religious? Mark 'No Religion'. @censusnotreligious.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The Census religion question – ‘What is the person’s religion?’ – assumes every respondent has a religion. This leads to inaccurate responses with results that overstate the number of religious people in Australia. Find out more: censusnotreligious.org.au #Census26 #NotReligious
Did you know: the biased Census question inflates the religion result.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Never have I seen a politician so openly giddy about being bought out by corporate interests. #auspol #OneNation www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Pauline Hanson boasts about ‘sexy’ new private plane gifted by Gina Rinehart and $2m in donations
One Nation leader targets the Guardian in post, with video featuring novelty cheques and the unveiling of the new Cirrus G7 plane
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Welcome to the 25 April 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...
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Weekend Wrap for 25 April 2026 - National Secular Lobby
Catch up on the latest Australian secular news with the NSL's Weekend Wrap for 25 April 2026.
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Welcome to the 11 April 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...
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Weekend Wrap for 11 April 2026 - National Secular Lobby
Catch up on the latest Australian secular news with the NSL's Weekend Wrap for 11 April 2026.
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Welcome to the 28 March 2026 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...
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Weekend Wrap for 28 March 2026 - National Secular Lobby
Catch up on the latest Australian secular news with the NSL's Weekend Wrap for 28 March 2026.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Little known fact: Matt Canavan will be appearing in the upcoming movie Inside Out 3 playing a new character, Ignorance. #auspol #LNP
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Nice that someone (Melanie Stansbury, D-NM) is finally being straightforward about this. Maxwell is now apparently refusing to give evidence unless she's pardoned. #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Queensland #LNP bought and paid for. #qldpol #Adani #auspol
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Bloody hell, eh? #auspol #LNP
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers. I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The building of datacentres to support growth in AI usage has caused a massive increase in the price of computer memory as it's all snapped up by corporations. The 2x16GB sticks I put in a system in 2023 for $159 now cost $429. Production for 2028 is already being pre-sold. There's no end in sight.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
New: The background on the Adelaide Writers’ Week debacle
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
How they killed Writers Week:
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A good explainer on Trump's illegal operations in #Venezuela. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCwd...
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Insane “War” in Venezuela
YouTube video by LegalEagle
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 30/12/2025
"Other people in the rest of the world are making a fortune out of Australia's gas exports....You're not alone in thinking that Australia is getting taken for a ride." Add your name to the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_ga…
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Welcome to the 30 November 2025 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/week...
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Weekend Wrap for 30 November 2025 - National Secular Lobby
Catch up on the latest Australian secular news with the NSL's Weekend Wrap for 30 November 2025.
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Welcome to the 23 November 2025 edition of the NSL Weekend Wrap, your weekly round-up of news and views on Australian #secular issues! #auspol #secularism www.nsl.org.au/columns/weekend-wrap…
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Weekend Wrap for 23 November 2025 - National Secular Lobby
Catch up on the latest Australian secular news with the NSL's Weekend Wrap for 23 November 2025.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Looks like there'll be some changes to the 'facts' taught to kids in Queensland. #qldpol
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The ACT has expanded the liability of churches, sporting groups and other organisations to make them vicariously liable for acts of child sex abuse perpetrated by people such as clergymen, volunteers and coaches who are in positions akin to employment. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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ACT closes 'legal loophole' making institutions more liable for child sexual abuse
Survivors and lawyers welcome the nation-leading legislation, with legal action against churches, sporting groups and others to be affected.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The Trump Pentagon no longer has a press corps, it has a propaganda corps. #Taterdick johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...
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‘Pro-Trump propagandists’ take over Pentagon Press Corps after signing loyalty pledge
Critics called the department’s announcement “deeply weird and awful”, “so Orwellian”, and “real textbook fascism beginning to end.
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
NT Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Jeswynn Yogaratnam criticises new changes to A-D legislation: "It was really about a pre-election promise to place power and privilege back to groups that already are in places of power and privilege." #ntpol #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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NT passes anti-discrimination law changes to 'restore' free speech, religion
Northern Territory Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby says the changes will protect freedom of expression and religion while retaining protections against hate speech.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The thing to remember when handing over vital business functions to AI - especially if you're not going to double-check every bit of its output - is that AI *does not know what it is saying*. That's how generative AI works. Please, just keep the humans. #ai www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX1X...
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Replacing Humans with AI is Going Horribly Wrong
YouTube video by ColdFusion
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We're all paying for Santos's mistake. Successive governments have failed in their duty to manage our natural resources responsibly and protect the interests of the Australian people. #santos #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
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Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs
It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"Productivity Commissioner Stephen King admitted the PC had not conducted economic modelling of how proposed changes to #copyright law would affect the #creative industry..." ...after suggesting #AI could have carte blanche on works to learn how to replace artists! 🤯 www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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Australian artists warn of wipeout in a decade by AI
Musicians and artists descended on Canberra to argue for copyright protections against AI, which they say will affect the future of their industries.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Now might be a good time to leave TikTok. With its assets sale to Rupert Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and Michael Dell, and Trump's "joke" about it becoming "100 percent MAGA", it's on its way to becoming another right-wing cesspool. #tiktok www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...
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Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine
After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Women having 'missed miscarriages' say they were denied care at Mater Mothers’ Hospital in Brisbane because of its religious policies on abortion. This hospital receives public money. Why are we funding hospitals that don't provide medical services? #auspol #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Qld women denied chosen miscarriage care say it's like something from the US
Brisbane women have told the ABC they paid an abortion clinic for their chosen miscarriage care rather than getting it at their large public hospital.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Fascism expert warns Australia could be next. "A lot of what you’re seeing in the US must seem familiar to you, even though you’ve come nowhere close to what we’ve seen in the last few months ... the ideological preconditions are certainly familiar to you." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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A US fascism expert’s warning to Australia: ‘You guys are probably next’
The US’s slide towards authoritarianism is part of a global trend, says professor and fascism expert Jason Stanley. And distant Australia, far from being immune, is uniquely vulnerable
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Parliament is not a place for worship, and certainly not sectarian worship. Any parliament claiming to represent all citizens - and claiming to provide and protect a right to religious freedom - should not be endorsing or engaging in the practice of a single religion. #auspol @albomp.bsky.social
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Watch this past week's Four Corners, where former members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church speak about the manipulation, surveillance, and threats the church allegedly used against them. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/big-…
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Big Brethren
Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Ex chief of staff John Kelly from October 2024. As it turns out: bang on the money. #Trump
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Typical behaviour from the Gangster-in-Chief: don't ask questions I don't like or I'll punish your entire country. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Donald Trump clashes with Australian ABC journalist and confirms Albanese meeting
US president accuses John Lyons of ‘hurting Australia’ after reporter asked about his White House business dealings
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
New research reveals a profound shift in Australian attitudes towards religious education in government schools, with support for religion being taught at least once a week falling from 72% in 1997/98 to 50% in 2024/25. #auspol bit.ly/4nnyScy
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
"The Plymouth Brethren … pumped so much cash and on-the-ground support into the Liberal Party’s 2025 election campaign that some party officials feared the religious sect would hold significant sway over an incoming Peter Dutton government." bit.ly/47BmcKt
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‘I’m glad we didn’t win’: Liberal campaigners feared Brethren-fuelled Dutton victory
The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church was so enmeshed in local Liberal campaigns that they were cleaning candidates’ houses. Now a new inquiry has been launched.
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Peter Monk @unfairrobot.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The irony of a bunch of white supremecists protesting immigration and then attacking a First Nations camp is off the charts. #auspol
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"In assuming all respondents have a religion, the framing of the question produces acquiescence bias that inflates data — by as much as 11 points, according to a number of surveys — in favour of religious affiliation." #auspol #census Just as we found in our 2021 survey! bit.ly/3JDRSoj
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ABS decision to reuse biased, coercive Census religion question puts human rights in the spotlight
In about 12 months from now, Australians will again be asked to fill in a Census form that seeks information on all kinds of important questions.
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The difference between a private prayer and a communal prayer in parliament: are people religious, or is parliament religious? In a secular country, our government should not be taking part in sectarian religious rituals. #auspol
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National Secular Lobby @secularlobby.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
What if we banned the Lord's Prayer from Parliament? Ali Moore (ABC Melbourne) ponders this question with input from Georgie Purcell (Animal Justice Party) & Evan Mulholland (LNP). #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melb…
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What If Wednesday: Banning the Lord's Prayer from Parliament - ABC listen
Today on 774 ABC Radio Melbourne Drive, What If Wednesday tackled the question: What if we banned the Lord's Prayer from Parliament?
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