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providers, there is a range of ways to deliver pastoral care and a range of preferences for pastoral care.
Unfortunately, the commonwealth government, through its national school chaplaincy program for the 2019-22 period, will continue to provide funding only for chaplains. Secular student welfare workers are specifically not allowed. This is a great shame. There is scope to have diversity in pastoral care but, given that the commonwealth has taken such a narrow approach, I think that that is a point worth reflecting on in this discussion. I urge the commonwealth to change the rules around its program and allow for the provision of pastoral care rather than being so narrow in its funding base.
Discussion concluded.
National institutions—funding
MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong) (3.18): I move:
That this Assembly:
(1) notes that:
(a) as the nation’s capital, Canberra should be valued as a city of culture, history, research and learning for all Australians;
(b) the Federal Government has neglected the needs of national institutions in the ACT for many years;
(c) these national institutions hold much of our country’s shared pre and post colonisation history; and
(d) that the neglect and failure to fund these institutions adequately over many years is having a material impact on the storage of essential history items, reducing research opportunities, and is eroding the core role of the capital city of a modern nation;
(2) further notes:
(a) that the Federal Liberal Government has provided $498 million to redevelop the Australian War Memorial, despite the protest of leading architects, historians, previous Directors and prominent Australians; and
(b) the sponsorship of exhibitions and general funding of the Australian War Memorial by arms manufacturer firms such as Lockheed Martin; and
(3) calls on the Legislative Assembly to:
(a) express its disappointment at successive Federal Government’s failure to properly fund Canberra’s national institutions;
(b) commit to tri-partisan support in advocating for fair and equal distribution of federal funding towards Canberra’s national institutions; and
(c) call on the Federal Government to establish a non-political federal national institutions coordinating advisory council.
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