After 50 years of pledging allegiance to the Queen and to God, Australian Girl Guides will now vow to serve the community and the country.
The refreshed Girl Guides promise has been introduced after 18 months of consultation with members of the volunteer girls movement, the ABC and News Limited report.
Australia’s 28,000 Girl Guides will now promise to do their best “to be true to myself and develop my beliefs”, rather than “do my duty to God, to serve the Queen and my country”.
“Our members didn’t feel ‘duty to God’ reflected all faiths and belief systems across the world,” NSW Guides Commissioner Belinda Allen told the ABC.
The Girl Guide law has also been updated.
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