{"id":21961,"date":"2025-04-05T02:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=21961"},"modified":"2025-04-05T02:19:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:19:43","slug":"funding-for-the-first-hindu-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2025\/04\/05\/funding-for-the-first-hindu-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding for the First Hindu School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AUSTRALIA, April 4, 2025 (Hindu Council Australia): A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will invest $8.5 million to support the construction of the first ever Hindu school in Australia. The new primary school will be located in Oakville in North-West Sydney. With more than 680,000 Hindus in Australia, it is the third largest religion and the fastest growing major religion but is underrepresented in our schooling sector. This election commitment is building Australia\u2019s future and will help support the education needs and choices of families in the growing Hindu community in West and North-West Sydney. Operated by the Hindu Education and Cultural Centre, the school will deliver the New South Wales curriculum embedded with teachings on Hinduism\u2019s culture, traditions and philosophy. The new school is strongly supported by the Hindu Council of Australia which represents more than a hundred Hindu organizations.<br><br>The Albanese Government\u2019s contribution builds on funding already provided by the Hindu community and other stakeholders for the school and land. Consistent with past practice, election commitments will be delivered in line with Commonwealth Grants Rules and Principles. Minister for Education Jason Clare said, \u201cThe Albanese Labor Government is building Australia\u2019s future and investing in the first ever Hindu school in Australia. Hinduism is Australia\u2019s fastest growing major religion, and the Hindu community plays an important role in the multicultural country we live in today.\u201d \u201cThis new school will give parents in West and North-West Sydney the option to send their children to a school that incorporates their faith and culture,\u201d he added.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hinducouncil.com.au\/\n\">https:\/\/hinducouncil.com.au\/<br><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTRALIA, April 4, 2025 (Hindu Council Australia): A re-elected Albanese Labor Government will invest $8.5 million to support the construction,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21972,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21961\/revisions\/21972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}