In The Weekend Conversation (30 August 2014) Audrey Statham argues that there is widespread misunderstanding of the term ‘secular’. She suggests that the implementation in state schools of a school chaplaincy program that is ‘secular’ – in the sense of being open towards funding either a religious chaplain or a non-religious counsellor – is crucial for promoting democratic attitudes of openness towards difference on the part of both non-religious and religious students, and in Australia as a whole.’
