In the last few months prominent Australians have been campaigning to take religion out of classrooms, and chaplains out of public schools.
In public schools children are able to opt out of doing religious studies, with the permission of their parents.

Previously, those who weren’t doing religion were not given much direction outside of the classroom, but the Department of Education has changed the guidelines, and now schools must be give those students who opt out ‘meaningful activities’.

Emma Buckley Lennox hit the streets today to find out that although there is opposition to pushing one religion, young Melburnians were pretty open to learning about theology in general.

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Religion vox pops FINAL.mp3