The Murphy Reform Senator, Attorney-General and Justice Lionel Murphy. He founded the unique civil celebrant movement in Australia, which has now spread to the rest of the Western WorldFounder Lionel Murphy had a very clear ideal that secular people were entitled to ceremonies of equal  dignity and substance as those enjoyed by religious people. Murphy's vision, more carefully articulated as the program progressed, included training standards and a limit on the number of celebrants to be registered. Celebrants were to be mentored (later trained) to the highest standard. They were only yo be appointed when there was an actual demand. The deeper meaning of the Murphy ideal was to improve the individual psychologically, and the community socially and culturally through ceremonies. He also appointed of Australian aborigines as civil celebrants. Faith Bandler was one. (This was particularly significant in that the aborigines had only been counted as humans in the census some six years before.) Another change of direction was the appointment of young people to do ceremonies. Lois D’Arcy, the first celebrant appointed  was a 26 year old mother of two babies. Carol Ditchburn, now Astbury, was 24 when appointed.
The Murphy Reform Senator, Attorney-General and Justice Lionel Murphy. He founded the unique civil celebrant movement in Australia, which has now spread to the rest of the Western WorldSenator, Attorney-General and High Court Justice of Australia Lionel Murphy was the founder of modern celebrancy. He had a very clear ideal that secular people were entitled to ceremonies of equal meaning, dignity and substance as those enjoyed by religious people. Murphy's vision, more carefully articulated as the program progressed, included training standards and a limit on the number of celebrants to be registered. Celebrants were to be mentored (later trained) to the highest standard. They were only yo be appointed when there was an actual demand. The deeper meaning of the Murphy ideal was to improve the individual psychologically, and the community socially and culturally through ceremonies. He also appointed Australian aborigines as civil celebrants. Faith Bandler was one. (This was particularly significant in that the aborigines had only been counted as humans in the census some six years before.) Another change of direction was the appointment of young people to do ceremonies. Lois D’Arcy, the first celebrant appointed , was a 26 year old mother of two babies. Carol Ditchburn, now Astbury, was 24 when appointed.
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