With a new $40 million grants program to enhance security and safety, the Albanese government will help protect religious institutions.
Places of worship, religious schools, and organizations that work with them will be able to get grants to help pay for safety improvements like fencing, lighting, security cameras, traffic barriers, alarm systems, entry controls, and security guards.
The Albanese Government wants to make sure that people of religion can follow their beliefs without fear of violence or discrimination. Here is the official Twitter announcement of the news –
The @AlboMP Government will help protect places of worship, religious schools and associated organisations with a new $40 million grants program to improve security and safety.
The Securing Faith-Based Places grants program will open for applications in July 2023.
— Mark Dreyfus (@MarkDreyfusKCMP) May 16, 2023
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The integrity of the Albanese government is not under question. The new program for Securing Faith-Based Places grants will be open, competitive, and merit-based. The previous administration’s misappropriation of public funds led to the discrediting of the Safer Communities Fund.
The Auditor-General found that grants under the former program were only “partly effective and partly consistent with the Commonwealth Grant Rules and Guidelines” and “funding decisions were not appropriately informed by departmental briefings.”
In July 2023, applications will be accepted for the Securing Faith-Based Places grant program. The full information hasn’t been shared yet, so stay tuned to us because we’ll be the first to write about it. Make sure to follow our Twitter account so that you’ll know when we post more related updates.