STOP RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS Petition: Signature List Feed http://gopetition.com/signatures/stop-religious-instruction-in-public-primary-schools.html Online petition signatures en-us Mon, 6 Apr 2026 08:31 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Ms Natasha Cochrane-Friedrich [Signature #864] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22011560?utm_medium=rss Sat, 27 Jan 2018 03:26:57 UTC 22011560 Dr. Anonymous [Signature #863] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22004892?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Jan 2018 07:19:15 UTC 22004892 Ms Anonymous [Signature #862] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22004816?utm_medium=rss Tue, 23 Jan 2018 04:53:48 UTC 22004816 Professor Anonymous [Signature #861] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22004512?utm_medium=rss My children were hurt and traumatised by their experience of religious education in a State primary school in Melbourne. We had to deal with nightmares and a resulting reluctance to attend school at all. These programs are damaging and should be stopped.

]]> Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:58:19 UTC 22004512 Mr Scott Turner [Signature #860] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17132277?utm_medium=rss I am fully supportive of this initiative.
The current curriculum only presents a single perspective, which is presented as the 'right' perspective and is presented by amateurs.
I would like all major religions to be represented in schools if anything so that kids can develop an understanding and empathy for different belief systems

]]> Wed, 2 Apr 2014 05:17:14 UTC 17132277 Ms Lara Wood [Signature #859] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17132261?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Apr 2014 05:10:23 UTC 17132261 Ms Sarah Whymark [Signature #858] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17132084?utm_medium=rss Public education must be secular. End of story. If families choose to include religion in their child's education, ther are many opportunities to satisfy.

]]> Wed, 2 Apr 2014 03:25:10 UTC 17132084 Mr Lewis Haskins [Signature #857] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17132013?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Apr 2014 02:37:15 UTC 17132013 Dr David Zyngier [Signature #856] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/17132000?utm_medium=rss Wed, 2 Apr 2014 02:28:40 UTC 17132000 Mr Bruce Chambers [Signature #855] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16488017?utm_medium=rss Sat, 28 Dec 2013 08:20:22 UTC 16488017 Ms Deb Sestak [Signature #854] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16043026?utm_medium=rss Thu, 24 Oct 2013 06:16:41 UTC 16043026 Ms Susan Constable [Signature #853] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/16042790?utm_medium=rss Thu, 24 Oct 2013 04:28:39 UTC 16042790 ms jane king [Signature #852] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15508276?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Jul 2013 06:57:37 UTC 15508276 Ms Sharon Connolly [Signature #851] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15305277?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 May 2013 06:38:36 UTC 15305277 Mr Geoffrey Bradshaw [Signature #850] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15304873?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 May 2013 04:11:02 UTC 15304873 Mr Jason Camp [Signature #849] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/15133702?utm_medium=rss Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:51:42 UTC 15133702 Mr Bruno Needham [Signature #848] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14742288?utm_medium=rss Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:42:46 UTC 14742288 Ms Chloe Fontaine [Signature #847] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14261361?utm_medium=rss Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:11:59 UTC 14261361 Mr vincent Marty [Signature #846] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14107670?utm_medium=rss I would like to invite you to view my petitions for the support of injured workers in Australia and their rights, and decide if you wish to sign on one or both and if you could kindly pass the links around to your family, friends, co-workers...( may be your supporters too as my petitions truly concern all) ...as you know it is hard to promote a petition and any legal ways to do so should be exploited...thank you for your understanding
www.communityrun.org/p/classaction15
and
www.communityrun.org/p/royalcommission
Thanks

Vincent

]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 04:17:37 UTC 14107670 Mr Joe Kelly [Signature #845] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14067459?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Nov 2012 07:43:14 UTC 14067459 Mr Michael Cunnington [Signature #844] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/14011058?utm_medium=rss I can see absolutely no justification for the intrusion of sectarian indoctrination in public schools. (Apart from the power that religious lobby groups have over our politicians?)

]]> Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:31:33 UTC 14011058 ms Louise Foley [Signature #843] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13711599?utm_medium=rss Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:26:53 UTC 13711599 Mrs Nicole Dodanwela [Signature #842] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13679499?utm_medium=rss Tue, 4 Sep 2012 07:07:45 UTC 13679499 Mrs Catherine Lancaster [Signature #841] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13639184?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:53:59 UTC 13639184 Mr Paul Chao [Signature #840] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13638984?utm_medium=rss Publicly funded schools should ALWAYS remain religious neutral. Such classes should be opt in and held outside of school hours or held by the respective religious institution therefore making it fairer and respecting those from other religions or whom are non religious.

]]> Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:21:04 UTC 13638984 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #839] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13638836?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:15:51 UTC 13638836 Mrs Karlee Scott-Murphy [Signature #838] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13638814?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:07:41 UTC 13638814 Ms Katie Barnett [Signature #837] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13638579?utm_medium=rss Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:48:24 UTC 13638579 Mrs Nicole Dodanwela [Signature #836] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13628173?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:31:58 UTC 13628173 Ms Janet Buick [Signature #835] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13625377?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:00:17 UTC 13625377 Ms Miriam Cannell [Signature #834] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13625180?utm_medium=rss Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:20:42 UTC 13625180 MR Christopher Cochrane-Friedrich [Signature #833] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13610043?utm_medium=rss Sun, 26 Aug 2012 07:37:04 UTC 13610043 MR Norbert Williams [Signature #832] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13563545?utm_medium=rss Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:46:57 UTC 13563545 Ms Jana Crooks [Signature #831] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13556520?utm_medium=rss Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:11:56 UTC 13556520 mrs Anne Butler [Signature #830] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13545860?utm_medium=rss History of religion only as per 1 & 2 above

]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:00:18 UTC 13545860 Dr Carolyn Rasmussen [Signature #829] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13545211?utm_medium=rss Religious instruction should only be allowed outside normal school hours, and be very specifically made 'opt-in' - with parents given extensive details about the qualifications and affiliation of the instructors, and be allowed to attend these sessions themselves if they desire.

]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:44:19 UTC 13545211 Mr David Taft [Signature #828] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13544876?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:55:56 UTC 13544876 Mr Robert Webb [Signature #827] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13544874?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Aug 2012 06:55:44 UTC 13544874 Ms Lynne Butler [Signature #826] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13543682?utm_medium=rss Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:33:51 UTC 13543682 Ms Beverley Chambers [Signature #825] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13483368?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Aug 2012 06:32:58 UTC 13483368 mr Anonymous [Signature #824] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13343786?utm_medium=rss Tue, 17 Jul 2012 04:09:18 UTC 13343786 ms anna earl [Signature #823] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/13313325?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Jul 2012 04:36:05 UTC 13313325 Mr Andrew Johnson [Signature #822] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12555262?utm_medium=rss Religion should not be in state schools or government funded, unless it covers all religions and topics INCLUDING Atheism and should cover religions, not teach a specific faith.

]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:00:39 UTC 12555262 Mr Randy Nebauer [Signature #821] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12186097?utm_medium=rss Religion belongs no where, other than in a mental home. These deluitional breed of people need to be on medication for their belief in a "tooth fairy" or whatever they want to call it. Children are the old exemption, with their belief in things like, Santa Claus, gods, fairys etc.

]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:24:59 UTC 12186097 Mr Bradley Nebauer [Signature #820] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12185490?utm_medium=rss Religious people should be placed in a mental home. They're deluitional and a danger to society.

]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:10:58 UTC 12185490 Mr Clementh Martin Baroi [Signature #819] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/12185317?utm_medium=rss STOP RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS

]]> Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:26:11 UTC 12185317 Mr Prad Ranatunge [Signature #818] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11733352?utm_medium=rss Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:54:20 UTC 11733352 mr robert heatlie [Signature #817] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11704476?utm_medium=rss Because it's all based on a book written by ignorant men. In other words, the stories are not true!

]]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:10:13 UTC 11704476 Ms Irina F [Signature #816] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11607320?utm_medium=rss Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:36:32 UTC 11607320 Mr Tim Mitchell [Signature #815] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11219809?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:20:11 UTC 11219809 mr stefan foster [Signature #814] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11187939?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:03:07 UTC 11187939 Ms Nadia Foster [Signature #813] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11187585?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Sep 2011 08:22:39 UTC 11187585 ms Jodie Hartup [Signature #812] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11187406?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:09:54 UTC 11187406 Mrs Anonymous [Signature #811] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11132088?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:32:39 UTC 11132088 Ms Mary Hey [Signature #810] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11078065?utm_medium=rss Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:23:30 UTC 11078065 Ms Emma Rowe [Signature #809] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11056572?utm_medium=rss I do not support mono-religious instruction in primary schools. Part of my rights as a citizen under the constitution is the right to an education. No where in this inclusion does it speak of religion. Remove mono-religious instruction immediately.

]]> Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:15:42 UTC 11056572 Ms Susan Green [Signature #808] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11016124?utm_medium=rss Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:03:35 UTC 11016124 Mr Gordon McKinlay [Signature #807] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/11015763?utm_medium=rss Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:32:52 UTC 11015763 Ms Jacki Whitwell [Signature #806] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10982487?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:43:42 UTC 10982487 MR Paul Enniss [Signature #805] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10957348?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Aug 2011 12:39:17 UTC 10957348 Mr Paul van der Loo [Signature #804] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10953858?utm_medium=rss I remember wasting much time just hanging around school during scripture, there was nothing else for us to do, we were sadly a minority. I believe religion is and should be a personal thing, not something to be enforced at school, a school is about equipping students with skills and knowledge for later life. Let people make faith decisions out side of school.

]]> Fri, 5 Aug 2011 05:34:01 UTC 10953858 Miss Rhiannon Lee [Signature #803] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10943661?utm_medium=rss Tue, 2 Aug 2011 08:17:59 UTC 10943661 Mr Peter Hill [Signature #802] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10935027?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Aug 2011 05:57:26 UTC 10935027 Ms Christine Kane [Signature #801] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10899424?utm_medium=rss As a secular society, SRI is inappropriate in our public schools. Teaching from an independant person (a teacher not a preacher) about a broad range of religions is appropriate. We do not need missionaries in our schools and we should not be paying them to try to indoctrinate our children. Remove religion from our schools now. If people choose to have religion mixed with their education, there are many Christian or other religious schools for them to choose from.

]]> Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:03:04 UTC 10899424 Mr Arpad Mihaly [Signature #800] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10883674?utm_medium=rss Schools funded by any government should provide qualified instruction in religious thought, as well as philosophical thought. Government should support all religions, equally. Religions believe in a god or deity. As far as I know these gods do not fight each other. Neither should their religions!

]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:37:15 UTC 10883674 Mr Shane Maloney [Signature #799] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10878917?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:17:21 UTC 10878917 Ms Debbie Alderson [Signature #798] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10876057?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:04:47 UTC 10876057 Mr Jon Jermey [Signature #797] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10874562?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:26:32 UTC 10874562 Dr David Fotheringham [Signature #796] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10873218?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:06:51 UTC 10873218 Mr Andrew Haig [Signature #795] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10869021?utm_medium=rss Our teaching environments should be secular. If religion is to be 'instructed' it should be optional.

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:23:55 UTC 10869021 Mr Santhana Naidu [Signature #794] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10868865?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:31:13 UTC 10868865 Mr Nick Chettle [Signature #793] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10867540?utm_medium=rss Sun, 17 Jul 2011 05:16:01 UTC 10867540 Miss Hayley Riboldi [Signature #792] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10865058?utm_medium=rss Religion is a CHOICE

]]> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:35:35 UTC 10865058 Mrs Anntte Treasure [Signature #791] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10863875?utm_medium=rss A secular education should be available in state schools. Children should not be instructed by people trained by Access Ministries or similar organisations, they should be taught only by fully trained and accredited teachers.

]]> Sun, 17 Jul 2011 02:07:12 UTC 10863875 Mr Roger Brisbane [Signature #790] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10816440?utm_medium=rss Make religious education 'opt in' in private schools also!

]]> Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:08:27 UTC 10816440 Mr Mark Attwooll [Signature #789] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10806808?utm_medium=rss Every Child should be given the opportunity to appreciate the diversity of cultures that are represented on earth. A trained teacher is the appropriate provider of this information, not a disciple of a particular faith with a proselitising agenda.

]]> Tue, 5 Jul 2011 04:12:43 UTC 10806808 Mr Darren Hay [Signature #788] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10806388?utm_medium=rss Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:50:50 UTC 10806388 Ms Sophie Rolfe [Signature #787] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10806261?utm_medium=rss Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:44:55 UTC 10806261 Mr Tim Elliott [Signature #786] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10806039?utm_medium=rss No religious dogma in public schools!

]]> Mon, 4 Jul 2011 10:54:09 UTC 10806039 Ms Sarah Brown [Signature #785] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10805737?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Jul 2011 08:27:11 UTC 10805737 Mr Will Power [Signature #784] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10802767?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Jul 2011 04:55:08 UTC 10802767 Mr Rod Swift [Signature #783] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10802716?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Jul 2011 04:40:54 UTC 10802716 Mr Gabriel Taylor-Russ [Signature #782] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10802269?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Jul 2011 02:01:49 UTC 10802269 Mr Alex Adamopoulos [Signature #781] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10802190?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Jul 2011 01:27:27 UTC 10802190 Mrs Shelley Stocken [Signature #780] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10801584?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Jul 2011 08:08:18 UTC 10801584 Ms Kate Nash [Signature #779] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10801386?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Jul 2011 06:48:48 UTC 10801386 Mr Michel Haggman [Signature #778] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10801367?utm_medium=rss Sun, 3 Jul 2011 06:43:03 UTC 10801367 Ms Betty Brady [Signature #777] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10798379?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:11:00 UTC 10798379 Mr Johan Westerbeek [Signature #776] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10798368?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:03:06 UTC 10798368 Mr Colin Mackay [Signature #775] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10797681?utm_medium=rss Just stop it! We need no more harm inflicted through the vigourous support of the social policies of millenia old goat herders.

]]> Sat, 2 Jul 2011 05:11:29 UTC 10797681 Dr Colin Coleman [Signature #774] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10796458?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jul 2011 10:15:35 UTC 10796458 Ms Janice Kent-Mackenzie [Signature #773] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10796190?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jul 2011 08:42:31 UTC 10796190 Mr Brian Reid [Signature #772] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10795525?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jul 2011 05:25:55 UTC 10795525 Ms Moira Clarke [Signature #771] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10795479?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jul 2011 05:09:09 UTC 10795479 Dr Andrew Kelly [Signature #770] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10795068?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jul 2011 02:55:28 UTC 10795068 ms Anne Bowen [Signature #769] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10794874?utm_medium=rss Keep Religion out of state schools. Keep my tax dollar for deserving causes. Stop SRI and Chaplains.

]]> Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:57:27 UTC 10794874 Mr Shane Thomas [Signature #768] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10794745?utm_medium=rss Sat, 2 Jul 2011 01:09:35 UTC 10794745 Ms Lynne Coleman [Signature #767] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10794518?utm_medium=rss Keep our government-funded schools secular, please.

]]> Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:57:09 UTC 10794518 Mr Warren Glover [Signature #766] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10794398?utm_medium=rss My tax dollars are for education, not indoctrination!

Subjecting the young to superstitious mumbo-jumbo and fear of terrible vengeance for sin is clearly child-abuse.

Will we explore the Cosmos on our knees obsequiously beseeching guidance from the supernatural? Or will we do it on our own two feet with self-confidence and an independent intellect?

]]> Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:55:01 UTC 10794398 Mr Chris Munn [Signature #765] https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/10794175?utm_medium=rss I can't believe in the 21st century people still believe in religious and supernatural nonsense and insist on it being forced on our children.

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