Home›Sources›The High Court School Chaplains Case and What It Means for Commonwealth Funding (Gabrielle Appleby, The Conversation, 2012)SourcesThe High Court School Chaplains Case and What It Means for Commonwealth Funding (Gabrielle Appleby, The Conversation, 2012)The Conversation, read 2026-08-23Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The High Court School Chaplains Case and What It Means for Commonwealth Funding (Gabrielle Appleby, The Conversation, 2012)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/theconversation-appleby-school-chaplains-2012.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The High Court School Chaplains Case and What It Means for Commonwealth Funding (Gabrielle Appleby, The Conversation, 2012). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/theconversation-appleby-school-chaplains-2012Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-high-court-school-chaplains-case-and, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The High Court School Chaplains Case and What It Means for Commonwealth Funding (Gabrielle Appleby, The Conversation, 2012)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/theconversation-appleby-school-chaplains-2012}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXAn article by Gabrielle Appleby, Senior Lecturer at Adelaide Law School, published in The Conversation on June 20, 2012, on the High Court's Williams v Commonwealth ruling that direct Commonwealth funding of the National School Chaplaincy Programme was invalid without statutory authority, forcing the Commonwealth to route funding through the states instead.FactsSourcesClaims Backed By This Source (8 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedGabrielle ApplebyPublisherWell-attestedThe ConversationURLWell-attestedhttps://theconversation.com/the-high-court-school-chaplains-case-and-what-it-means-for-commonwealth-funding-7795Source TypeWell-attestedacademic articleAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Tier 1: an academic constitutional-law scholar writing for an editorially reviewed outlet on the High Court decision, citing the case itself directly.SourcesThe High Court School Chaplains Case and What It Means for Commonwealth Funding (Gabrielle Appleby, The Conversation, 2012)tier 1Gabrielle Appleby, The ConversationView the SourceClaims Backed By This Source (8 claims)This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.Countries, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.Well-attested7CountriesAustraliaSourcesThe High Court School Chaplains Case and What It Means for Commonwealth Funding (Gabrielle Appleby, The Conversation, 2012)General References1CountriesAustraliaComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year