Military chief says review into chaplaincy found ‘unacceptable views about minority groups, women, LGBTQI+ persons’
The royal commission into defence and veteran suicide heard tensions had been found in Australia’s air force chaplaincy ‘in relation to gender and LGBTI inclusion’.The royal commission into defence and veteran suicide heard tensions had been found in Australia’s air force chaplaincy ‘in relation to gender and LGBTI inclusion’.
“A large portion of our workforce would prefer not to speak to a minister as their first port of call when they’re going through difficult times,” he said. Meanwhile, there are five non-denominational Christian chaplains and 4,217 serving members who identify that way, a ratio of one-to-843. Commissioner Erin Longbottom put to Chipman that the review found “there was a conflict between faith-based values of chaplains within that branch and the requirements of a modern defence force”. Chipman agreed.
Guardian Australia has sought the air force chaplaincy review under freedom of information laws since September. The request was initially rejected because it would cause an unreasonable workload. Defence sought an extension to the deadline for a revised request to November. In February, the request for “any reports or directives produced from the air force chaplaincy review” returned a directive about the implementation of the review, but not the report itself.
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