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Tasmania’s new Premier Lara Giddings is the architect of a raft of proposed law changes of concern to Christians. As Attorney General, she flagged surrogacy for same-sex couples, euthanasia, a charter of rights and legal brothels for Parliamentary debate this year.

Media Release The push to legalise interactive gratuitous violence in video games has been spun as a child protection measure despite the advice of every Children’s Commissioner in Australia. Australian Christian Lobby Chief of Staff Lyle Shelton said it was wrong for the Federal Government and the gaming industry to claim that introducing an R18+ Continue Reading

Australian Christian Lobby managing director and retired Brigadier Jim Wallace has put out a call for courage and integrity in public office in a challenging lead article in the latest edition of Viewpoint magazine. Addressing an issue too often ignored, Mr Wallace urges those taking part in the 43rd Federal Parliament to “set themselves the Continue Reading

A major new report launched on poverty by the Salvation Army today has revealed that two million Australians – or 1 in 10 – now live in poverty, with more than half a million children living in jobless families. Entitled ‘Perceptions of Poverty’, the report states that 9.5 million Australians feel that taking action to Continue Reading

Writing in the September issue of the Australian Presbyterian, Federal Opposition frontbencher Kevin Andrews (pictured) answers the question ‘What should Christians do to be heard in the public square?’ He makes 10 key points that are extremely relevant to any Christian looking to have an input into the policy directions of our nation. Mr Andrews Continue Reading

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today congratulated Julia Gillard and her ALP team on their election victory and said they looked forward to working with the newly-elected Government on many issues of interest to Christians. “Although Ms Gillard has declared her own lack of religious belief, we appreciate the fact that she went out of Continue Reading

With the federal election fast approaching, the National School Chaplaincy Association has launched a campaign aimed at securing continued funding for school chaplaincy beyond 2011.

Media Release June 22, 2010 A gathering of many of Australia’s most senior denominational and church leaders – rarely paralleled in the nation’s history – last night heard both the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader speak of the valuable contribution the Christian faith has made to the nation and also respond to Christian concerns Continue Reading

For release: March 26, 2010 Prior to the election the South Australian Labor Party gave a written commitment to oppose calls for an R18+ classification for computer games “due to the potential harm that violent computer games can have on children”, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) said today. ACL SA/Victorian Director Rob Ward said that Continue Reading

For release: February 17, 2010 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today called on the ACT Government to investigate allegations that a Canberra Hospital patient was pressed to terminate her baby at 31 weeks gestation following failed treatment for an earlier misdiagnosis. The ACL’s ACT Director Nick Jensen said serious questions had been raised about why Continue Reading