...Remy Low Purpose Through a political genealogy, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the institutionalisation of the so-called “secular principle” in NSW state schools in the late-nineteenth century, which is commonly assumed to be a historical moment when religious neutrality...

... in Queensland for over a decade. The Rev. Colin McCulloch (1873) presented a lecture advocating for the claims of the Bible to be taught in State schools. He argued that the “great thieves of the present day” were not “the ignorant, the uneducated, the untaught”, but instead the product of the secular...