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What is the point of a “non-judgemental” ethics course? That’s the question posed by ACL’s NSW Director David Hutt writing on the The Punch opinion website. With the NSW Government moving to legislate ethics classes in competition with Scripture classes in NSW primary schools, David says it is time to ask some more probing questions Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today congratulated the NSW Opposition for making a stand to protect Special Religious Education Classes (SRE). ACL’s NSW Director David Hutt welcomed the announcement by the NSW Opposition that they will scrap the St James Ethics Centre’s secular ethics classes if they win the March 2011 state election.

Media Release The NSW Government’s decision to roll-out ethics classes in primary schools next year actively discriminates against children of faith who will not be able to attend both special religious education (SRE) and ethics classes and also risks undermining a system of teaching SRE which has operated effectively for more than a century, the Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today urged the NSW Government not to rubber-stamp the roll-out of ethics classes in competition with Scripture classes – saying this is a “hot button” issue for the Christian constituency. “Cabinet needs to understand the depth of concern in the Christian constituency and in the community generally about Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today urged NSW parliamentarians to ensure children born into State-backed surrogacy arrangements have the benefit of the complementary love and care of both a mother and a father. ACL NSW Director David Hutt said that in moving to regulate surrogacy in NSW, the parliament at the very least Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today urged the NSW Government to undertake a genuine consultation process over proposed ethics classes in schools. ACL NSW Director David Hutt today said there is widespread community concern that the NSW Government has already made up its mind on the introduction of ethics classes in the Special Continue Reading

Less than 24 hours after telling Parliament in her first speech that she was committed to suicide prevention, Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann will today give notice of her intent to move legislation that would legalise euthanasia in NSW. “At a time when Australia is battling what some perceive as an epidemic of depression, measures to Continue Reading

NSW Director David Hutt’s letter to supporters in the State is available online. The Federal election campaign and the debate surrounding Clover Moore’s same-sex adoption bill have meant things have been flat out in the NSW Office for quite some time. Clover Moore’s bill – if passed into law – will deny some children the Continue Reading

Media release Plans by the Keneally Government to exempt faith-based adoption agencies from Clover Moore’s same-sex adoption bill are welcome but if the State Government is truly concerned about the best interests of children it should completely withdraw support for the bill, the Australian Christian Lobby’s NSW Director, David Hutt, said today.

Media Release June 25, 2010 A staggering 50,000 people have called on the NSW Government to protect the place of special religious education (SRE) in schools and reschedule the proposed ethics classes to another time slot. Christians from all major Christian denominations across NSW have signed a petition organised by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) Continue Reading