Category Archives: ACL – National

MEDIA RELEASE Monday, 7th May, 2012 The ACL is urging the government to honour its election promise and not cut its foreign aid in tomorrow’s budget. Managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby Jim Wallace said the government had committed to boost foreign aid to 0.5 per cent of gross national income (GNI) by 2015-2016. Continue Reading

The ACL’s Jim Wallace spoke at the Senate Inquiry into marriage in Melbourne today. Please find below a copy of Mr Wallace’s address. Mr Chairman, Senators Thank you for the opportunity to present our arguments as the ACL in support of the definition of marriage. I want to discuss truth. Homosexuality and heterosexuality are not Continue Reading

Media Release Friday, April 20, 2012 Any move to defer overseas aid in the budget risks breaking an election promise, Australian Christian Lobby Managing Director Jim Wallace said today. Since news was first leaked that our aid to the poor was to be cut, speculation has mounted as the budget draws closer. “Suggestions that the Continue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE Friday, April 20, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby has said that the use of simplistic polling to gather evidence for parliamentary inquiries was cheapening the value and intent of the inquiry system. Speaking on the final day of the House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs collecting online survey responses for Continue Reading

Media Release Wednesday, April 18th, 2012 The Press Council is mistaken in its ruling this week against former world number one tennis champion Margaret Court and has set a dangerous precedent against free speech, according to the Australian Christian Lobby. ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said the Council wrongly ruled that Ms Court made a Continue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE Friday, April 13, 2012 Written submissions giving a reasoned argument supporting the Marriage Act have outnumbered submissions calling for a redefinition of marriage by 11 to one. The Australian Christian Lobby today said it was heartened by this response from the 6500 thoughtful people who had taken the time to write a considered Continue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, April 5th, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby, in its submission to the senate inquiry on same-sex marriage, has highlighted the serious implications this proposal has for honouring the importance of motherhood and fatherhood. Managing Director Jim Wallace said the submission by the lobby group, which has 15,000 supporters, argues that marriage between Continue Reading

Thank-you to those that have written a submission to the senate inquiry on same-sex marriage. However, there is a House of Representatives inquiry into same-sex marriage which also needs your input. Fill in the online survey (once you click this link it will take you to a page where you can click a button that Continue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, 5th April, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby has expressed concern that cuts to Australia’s overseas aid has become part of pre-budget speculation. ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said Labor made an election promise to raise aid to 0.5 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) by 2015 (see ACL’s 2010 election questionnaire). Continue Reading

The Australian Christian Lobby’s submission to the same-sex marriage senate inquiry has now been published online. Click here to download. That submission’s executive summary has been published below. The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Senate on the Marriage Equality Bill 2010. ACL represents a significant constituency in Continue Reading