2011:
Sunshine Coast Atheists attended the Brisbane 10:23 campaign against homeopathy. Chrys Stevenson wrote about it for Online Opinion.
Sunshine Coast Atheists joined the campaign against the anti-vaccination group, the inappropriately named Australian Vaccination Network.
Sunshine Coast Atheists marched in a peaceful protest for abortion rights following the arrest of a young woman and her partner for obtaining the drug RU486.
Chrys Stevenson represented the Sunshine Coast Atheists at the High Court Challenge against Federal funding for the National School Chaplaincy Program.
Sunshine Coast Atheists repeatedly asked Premier Anna Bligh why her government allows religion to intrude into Queensland’s ’supposedly’ secular public education system. For more information see: http://backintheact.com/
2010:
Sunshine Coast Atheists were instrumental in founding a new national lobby group, Reason Australia.
Sunshine Coast Atheists attended the 2010 Global Atheist Convention.
Sunshine Coast Atheists attended The Amazing Meeting in Sydney – an international skeptics meeting hosted by the Australian Skeptics and the James Randi Education Foundation.
Sunshine Coast Atheists attended the ‘Get Secular Back in the Act’ Rally organised by the Humanist Society of Queensland at Parliament House, Queensland.
Sunshine Coast Atheists Vicki and Danny featured in the ABC Compass program – Challenging the Chaplains.
The Australian Book of Atheism, edited by Sunshine Coast Atheist, Warren Bonett, was published by Scribe and sold in book stores nationally.
2009:
The government set up the National Human Rights Consultations. Some concern was expressed over whether a Human Rights Consultation being chaired by Father Frank Brennan could offer an unbiased outcome.
Chrys worked for months on:
Freedom of Religion and Belief in the 21st Century A Submission to the Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission on behalf of the Australian Members of Atheist Nexus – An Online Community for Nontheists
Submissions such as this from Rev. Chris Connors, On behalf of the Church & Nation Committee of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia needed to be balanced.
There hasn’t really been a resolution to this issue. Recent Crikey Story.