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MEDIA RELEASE For release: Wednesday 4 May, 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has posted answers given by Legislative Council candidates to a series of questions recently put to them. ACL’s Tasmanian Director Mark Brown says there have been a range of responses to the eight questions posed to candidates in the three contested divisions. The Continue Reading

On Saturday, May 7 2011, voters in the Tasmanian upper house electorates of Derwent, Launceston and Rumney will go to the polls to elect their representatives for the next six years. The ACL sent a short questionnaire to each candidate contesting the three seats seeking their personal responses to a range of issues of interest Continue Reading

ACL has held its final two candidates’ forums for the NSW election this week in Lake Macquarie and Wollongong. Thank you to all the wonderful church leaders and ACL volunteers who helped organise and run candidates’ forums.

MEDIA RELEASE For release: 22nd March 2011 The possibility of a prominent Greens candidate in the March 26th NSW election pursuing a formal state-wide boycott of Israel is further evidence of the Greens’ policy extremes, Jim Wallace Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby said today. Ms Fiona Byrne, the Greens candidate in the inner-western Continue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE For release: 10th March 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby has today publicly released the results of a survey conducted of parties contesting the upcoming NSW election on a range of issues of concern to Christians. The results of the survey have been posted on ACL’s NSW election website, www.nswvotes.org.au, which will be promoted Continue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE For Release: 3rd February 2011 The NSW community’s hope the election might usher in a new era of public confidence in politics was in doubt today with the Opposition breaking a key election promise before the election has even occurred. The Australian Christian Lobby’s NSW Director David Hutt said the Christian constituency was extremely Continue Reading

Media Release The massive swing towards the Liberal/National Coalition in Saturday’s Victorian election spells out a message to both major parties that they should resist dancing to the Greens’ tune and instead lead from a position of principle, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) said today.

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 Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today called on Premier John Brumby to assure Victorians that he would not enter into a deal with the radical Greens to secure a hold on government in the event of a hung Parliament after Saturday’s Victorian election. “In just a few sitting weeks with the Greens having Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today congratulated the Victorian Liberals and Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu in particular for deciding to preference the Greens last in every seat in the upcoming State election. ACL Victorian Director Rob Ward said the decision will help Victoria avoid an unstable election outcome where the State is held Continue Reading