{"id":1288529,"date":"2023-10-23T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/oct\/24\/boroondara-city-council-christian-prayer-voted-out-melbourne-legal-human-rights"},"modified":"2023-10-23T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T23:19:17","slug":"melbourne-council-ditches-christian-prayer-after-concern-about-potential-human-rights-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/23\/melbourne-council-ditches-christian-prayer-after-concern-about-potential-human-rights-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne council ditches Christian prayer after concern about potential human rights breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boroondara to stop using prayer at meetings after councillor says there should be separation of church and state<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/oct\/24\/australia-news-live-fire-danger-queensland-anthony-albanese-biden-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-cost-of-living\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li><li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a> council has dumped its traditional prayer from meetings after lawyers complained it was a breach of human rights law.<\/p><p>The City of Boroondara voted on Monday night to stop reading the council prayer at the start of its meetings.<\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/oct\/24\/boroondara-city-council-christian-prayer-voted-out-melbourne-legal-human-rights\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2023\/oct\/24\/boroondara-city-council-christian-prayer-voted-out-melbourne-legal-human-rights\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boroondara to stop using prayer at meetings after councillor says there should be separation of church and stateFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Melbourne c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,6,2842,105,2841],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288531,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288529\/revisions\/1288531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}