http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/chani-unger/ Chani Unger is an emerging journalist in her second year of a Bachelor of Journalism degree at La Trobe University (Melbourne). A child of the ‘90s, she is the eldest of four children with three younger brothers, all of whom believe she is old. She maintains a blog at http://chaniunger.com and occasionally tweets on her Twitter page, @chaniunger. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/religious-education-is-not-mindless-indoctrination/ In the 2006 census, almost 14 million Australians said that they had some sort of religious affiliation - more than double those who chose not to answer combined with those who answered no religion. Despite the numbers, there’s a push to kick religious education out of public schools. And why not? I mean it has been over two centuries since the French Revolution established the principle of the separation of church and state. It can’t possibly make any sense for children educated by state institutions to be influenced in any way by the church. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Chani Unger) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/religious-education-is-not-mindless-indoctrination/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/religious-education-is-not-mindless-indoctrination/#item5908 Thu, 26 May 2011 19:50:54 +0000 Chani Unger | Author bios | The Punch