The advancement of religion has been recognised as a charitable purpose in the common law since at least 1601. Australian federal law expressly affirms this. But Victoria’s Sex/Reason Party disagrees.
In an Australian first, Fiona Patten MLC of the Sex/Reason Party has sought to remove the advancement of religion as a charitable purpose, in Victoria, by her Charities Amendment Bill 2018.
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