Australian National Secular Association

The Organisation

The Australian National Secular Association (ANSA) was formed in late 2005 to lobby for the secular cause in Australia and New Zealand. ANSA revives the work of earlier secular activists of the late nineteenth century. (For this history, see Ray Dahlitiz, A Secular Who’s Who, Melbourne c.1990 and Bill Cooke, Heathens in Godzone, Auckland, 1992).

In October 2006 our first conference was held in cooperation with the Rationalist Association of Australia and the Victorian Humanists. The papers from the conference were published as Separating Church and State: keeping God out of government. Copies of this publication are available for $20 (+$3 postage) from ANSA at the addresses below.

December 2007 saw the publication of Max Wallace’s The Purple Economy: supernatural charities, tax and the state. The book was first launched at Rationalist House, Auckland, New Zealand on 9 December and at Turnbull House, Wellington on 13 December 2007. Copies of the book are available for $40 (+$3.50 postage). Please send a cheque or money order to ANSA at the addresses below or to NZARH Rationalist House, 64 Symonds Street, Auckland. Alternatively, the book can be ordered through the Co-Op Bookshop chain. In Australia: ISBN No. 9780646482774. In New Zealand: Nationwide Books.

ANSA’s next conference was held in the Theatrette of the NSW Parliament on 9 July 2008. It was entitled ‘Secular Twins: Australia and New Zealand’s Secular Heritage and Its Future’. This conference will be repeated in cooperation with the NZARH and the New Zealand Humanist Society (NZHS) at Rutherford House, Lecture Room 2, the Law School, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand 9am – 5pm, Saturday 30 August 2008. Admission $20 and $10 concessions.

 

Enquiries:

ANSA
PO BOX 554
MILSONS POINT NSW 1565

 

ANSA
PO BOX 700
ELSTERNWICK VIC 3185