Jewish NSW Premier Chris Minns and NSW Labor have purged the Police force of Chaplains<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n New contract clauses forcing NSW Police chaplains to name the officers who use their services and hand over private disclosures have triggered mass resignations, leaving the force with no full-time paid chaplains from 21 August.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns, a member of the Jewish fraternity, is purging Christianity from police ranks, following UN dictates and those of the Islamic-oriented federal Labor government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Family First National Director Lyle Shelton has demanded Premier Minns immediately reverse new NSW Police chaplaincy contract conditions exposed by The Daily Telegraph, describing the changes as a direct breach of religious freedom that has already gutted the service and will strip vulnerable officers of one of their last confidential supports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Daily Telegraph revealed there will be no full-time paid NSW Police chaplains from 21 August, when the resignations of the final two paid chaplains take effect, with many of the service\u2019s 80 volunteers also expected to quit over the new conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a straight-out breach of religious freedom,\u201d Mr Shelton said. \u201cChaplaincy has always depended on the seal of pastoral confidentiality \u2014 that\u2019s the whole point. The Labor Government has taken a 50-year-old support service that has married officers, buried their colleagues and sat with them through the worst nights of their careers, and told the chaplains running it they must now dob in the very people who trusted them.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The new contracts require chaplains to disclose the full names of any officer who has used the service upon request, and to report any psychological distress, workplace conflict, trauma exposure, fitness-for-duty concern, health condition or financial hardship they identify to that officer\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Yet NSW Police\u2019s own psychologists and Employee Assistance Program counsellors continue to offer officers confidential support \u2014 with the Force\u2019s own wellbeing material describing EAP counselling as free and confidential and covering the same territory of trauma, distress and personal hardship chaplains are now compelled to report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPolice officers can see a psychologist or an EAP counsellor in confidence about the exact same issues \u2014 trauma, distress, financial hardship \u2014 and that conversation stays private,\u201d Mr Shelton said. \u201cBut if an officer instead turns to the chaplain they trust, that chaplain can now be forced to hand the same information straight to their manager. You cannot run a two-tier system where confidentiality applies to everyone except the pastoral carers officers have relied on for half a century.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One serving officer told the Telegraph chaplains had \u201cmarried us, buried us, christened our children and been there if we just wanted to talk\u201d for 50 years, asking how that could continue if chaplains were ordered to give up anything officers told them in confidence. The Police Association of NSW says it has been swamped with members complaining about the collapse of the padre service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEvery one of these resignations is a loss the Labor Government should be ashamed of,\u201d Mr Shelton said. \u201cFamily First is calling on the Government to scrap this disclosure regime immediately, restore genuine pastoral confidentiality to the chaplaincy service, and properly fund and expand it so every officer who wants that support can get it \u2014 without having to choose between their faith and their privacy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Comment from enouranois<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The headlining is exaggerated but the development is authentically unacceptable. Two points to highlight: Ben Franklin should be invited to the 200th anniversary of the swearing-in of modern Greece\u2019s first governor in Aegina on 26th January 2028. 26th January is the internationally (and nationally) unrecognized date of inauguration of the post-revolutionary modern Greek state. Greece should once again have a bicameral parliament (like New South Wales and all Australian states apart from Queensland) as it has had twice in its history since the establishment of modern Greece. But this will need assistance, It is not on current agendas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" https:\/\/cairnsnews.org\/2026\/07\/29\/minns-and-nsw-labor-purge-christianity-from-police-ranks\/ Jewish NSW Premier Chris Minns and NSW Labor have purged the Police force of Chaplains New contract clauses forcing NSW Police chaplains to name the officers who use their services and hand over private disclosures have triggered mass resignations, leaving the force with no full-time paid chaplains from 21 August. NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns, a member of the Jewish fraternity, is purging Christianity from police ranks, following UN dictates and those of the Islamic-oriented federal Labor government. Lyle Shelton Family First National Director Lyle Shelton has demanded Premier Minns immediately reverse new NSW Police chaplaincy contract conditions exposed by The Daily Telegraph, describing the changes as a direct breach of religious freedom that has already gutted the service and will strip vulnerable officers of one of their last confidential supports. The Daily Telegraph revealed there will be no full-time paid NSW Police chaplains from 21 August, when the resignations of the final two paid chaplains take effect, with many of the service\u2019s 80 volunteers also expected to quit over the new conditions. \u201cThis is a straight-out breach of religious freedom,\u201d Mr Shelton said. \u201cChaplaincy has always depended on the seal of pastoral confidentiality \u2014 that\u2019s the whole point. … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cairnsnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-38.png?resize=632%2C357&ssl=1\")
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