News from ACL NSW
- Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:06
NSW Director Letter to Supporters – May 2012
- Thursday, 3 May 2012 10:54
NSW Labor MLC raises issue of sexualisation of children in parliament
The New South Wales MLC Greg Donnelly raised the issue of sexualisation of children and young people yesterday in NSW Parliament. See below for a copy of his speech. SEXUALISATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE The Hon. GREG DONNELLY [9.19 p.m.]: It is my view that later this century people will look back on those Continue Reading
- Thursday, 1 March 2012 10:00
NSW Director Letter to Supporters – March 2012
The New South Wales Director, David Hutt, letter to supporters in the state is now available online. We are now well and truly into 2012 and it is promising to be just as challenging a year as 2011. Last month the hard-hitting documentary Nefarious: Merchant of Souls screened in Sydney which was well attended. Click Continue Reading
- Tuesday, 28 February 2012 11:47
David Hutt on the Political Spot
David Hutt is the NSW Director of the ACL. He spoke to the ACL’s Katherine Spackman about the news the state government’s considering introducing laws to reinstate a child’s biological heritage on a birth certificate (for more information see David Hutt’s post Including biological details on birth certificates is a good move). Transcript of interview Continue Reading
- Monday, 27 February 2012 10:54
NSW Government launches sex-trafficking Inquiry
ACL has welcomed news the NSW Government has launched an inquiry into sex-trafficking of Korean women. Strathfield MP Charles Casuscelli requested the inquiry following reports as many as 1,000 Korean women had been trafficked to Australia. ACL’s NSW Director David Hutt said the inquiry needed to look at the link between prostitution and human trafficking. Continue Reading
- Friday, 17 February 2012 10:58
Including biological details on birth certificates is a good move
Media Release Friday, February 17, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed news the NSW Government is considering introducing laws to reinstate a child’s biological heritage on a birth certificate. The ACL’s NSW State Director David Hutt said birth certificates should be a record of genetic parentage for children, which was detailed in the ACL’s Continue Reading
- Friday, 10 February 2012 5:43
Public Lecture by Dr Rikki Watts this weekend in Sydney
Compass Australia would like to invite supporters of the ACL to a public lecture on: “it’s all about life” with Dr Rikki Watts, Professor of New Testament at Regent College, Vancouver, and a leading authority on the gospel of Mark. Initially trained as an aeronautical engineer, Rikk undertook a degree in philosophy, art history and Continue Reading
- Friday, 18 November 2011 11:04
NSW Government sets minimum time for SRE in schools
The New South Wales State Government recently announced plans to set minimum length of time for the teaching of religious classes in schools. In a story in the Daily Telegraph, Education Minister Adrian Piccoli said that, “other activities have encroached on the delivery of special religious education” (SRE). A minimum time of 30 minutes of Continue Reading
- Thursday, 10 November 2011 8:30
Virginity sale shows state of morality
ACL’s MD Jim Wallace had an opinion piece published in The Daily Telegraph November 9, 2011 about the Sydney Escort agency selling a 19-year-old virgin. It was entitled “Virginity sale shows state of morality“. THE revelation that a Sydney escort agency is offering for sale a virgin should provide a reality check on the state Continue Reading
- Wednesday, 2 November 2011 10:00
NSW Director letter to supporters – November 2011
The New South Wales Director, David Hutt, letter to supporters in the state is now available online. The ALP National Conference is meeting the first weekend of December to determine Labor’s policy platform for the next election. Amongst other things, it will be debating whether to support same-sex marriage. Click here to read the Continue Reading
