SA Greens push to drop parly prayers

SA premier Peter Malinauskas didn't immediately quash a Greens call to scrap parliamentary prayers. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

The Greens in South Australia will push to abolish the Lord's Prayer at the opening of parliamentary sessions, with an MP describing the tradition as an "anachronism that serves no democratic purpose".

Upper House MP Robert Simms will seek to amend parliament's standing orders early next year, in a similar push to that by the Greens in NSW.