House debates Questions without Notice

Education

Thursday, 10 August 2017 House of Representatives
Bob Katter

Bob Katter Kennedy, Independent

2:18 pm

My question is for the Attorney-General. Secularist attacks upon Christianity inundate. Nativity scenes are gone. Stars are removed from Christmas trees. Now the Queensland government eradicates Christian moral teachings from schoolyards. Can we be assured that the replacement won't be humanism—to quote Lenin, 'communism's father and mother'? Stalin and Mao, 72 million dead; Charles Darwin; Adolf Hitler's master race, 26 million dead—and education in Australia tells of Pax Romana replacing Roman tyranny. The Magna Carta, the abolition of slavery, the collapse of communism and history's six greatest scientists—all of this from the carpenter preacher from Nazareth?

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Andrew JACKSON: THe Queensland EDucation attack on religion in schools is in direct contradiction o the referendum held in 1910 which gained a 74% YES VOte. "The State schoolmaster, in school hours, teaches selected Bible lessons from a reading book provided for the purpose, but is not allowed to give sectarian teaching; Any minister of religion is entitled, in school hours, to give the children of his own denomination an hour’s religious instruction on such days as the School Committee can arrange for; Any parent is entitled to withdraw his... Continue reading

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Tony Smith

Tony Smith Speaker

If members can cease interjecting, please, I'll just point out to the member for Kennedy that the Attorney-General is not in the House, but the Minister representing the Attorney-General is obviously happy to address the wide range of remarks in the member for Kennedy's question. And he only has three minutes.

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Michael Keenan

Michael Keenan Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice

2:20 pm

Yes.

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