Ben Thurley is the political engagement co-ordinator at Micah Challenge. The ACL's Katherine Spackman spoke to Ben about the federal budget and the decision by the government to delay lifting foreign aid funding to 0.5 per cent of GNI by ...

    Penny Wilson is the Chief Executive Officer at Responsible Gambling Advocacy Centre. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about responsible gambling awareness week. Click here to read the transcript.

  Jim Wallace is the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the National Marriage Webcast planned for June 26. Click here to read the transcript.

  Ron Brookman is a  minister with Uniting Church of Australia and a former homosexual. Ron gave evidence at the hearing into the senate inquiry into the Marriage Equality Bill 2010 about why the Marriage Act should continue to define marr...

  Senator Michaelia Cash in the liberal senator for Western Australian and opposition's Secretary for the Status of Women. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about Vogue Magazine's June Health Initiative - the company's decision not ...

  Bishop Eugene Hurley is the Bishop of Darwin. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about The Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia's concerns about the Stronger Futures in the Northern Territory Bill 2011. The o...

Lyle Shelton is the Chief of Staff at the Australian Christian Lobby. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the government's announcement to establish a national children's commissioner. Click here to read the transcript of the interview. &...

  Preston Manning is a former Canadian politician. He established the Reform Party in Canada and led it for 14 years and for a three year period was the leader of the opposition in Canada. The ACL's Katherine Spackman caught up with Preston...

Elizabeth Kendal is a religious liberty analyst and advocate. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the situation in the west African country of Mali. Earlier this month an islamist group took control of northern Mali and declared Sharia Law.

  Ruth Limkin is a blogger and social commentator on Bread and Justice. Last month the ACL's Katherine Spackman spoke to Ruth about Telstra's decision to remove advertisements for Playboy on its Bigpond Mobile Video website. In this intervi...

  Tim Costello is from Stop the Loss Coalition, an anti-gambling group. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about a survey on Australian attitudes to pokie reform showing 70 per cent of people support introducing precommitment technolo...

Chris Meney is the Director of Life, Marriage & Family Centre, which is part of the Catholic Archdiocese in Sydney. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the New South Wales Government's bill to allow retailers to trade on Boxing day and t...

Dan Flynn is the new Victorian state director for the Australian Christian Lobby. Dan is a lawyer by profession. He practiced as a Barrister from 1989 to 2006, before commencing as a Solicitor with the Victorian Government. From 2008, until joining ACL...

Jim Wallace is the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. Before joining the ACL, Jim had a 32-year career in the Army which included command of the SAS Regiment, Special Forces, and the Army’s mechanised Brigade of 3,000 personnel and ...

John Beckett is the national coordinator of Micah Challenge. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about speculation that overseas aid will be cut in the next federal budget. Click here to read the transcript of the interview.

Reverend Tim Patrick is the project manager of the "Reason for Faith Festival" which is on in Melbourne next week. The festival is for thinking Christians to join the public conversation on the questions raised by the 2012 Global Atheist Convention. He...

Hannah is one of seven interns at the Lachlan Macquarie Internship outside Canberra. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about her experience being on the 3-month internship. Click here to read the transcript of the interview.

  Debbie Garrett is the Executive Director of Real Choices Australia. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the organisation's new factazine Really a Choice? which has just been published. Click here to read a transcript of the in...

Jim Wallace is the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the recent ruling in the European Court of Human rights that same-sex marriage was not a human right (see related news article Ga...

  Salvation Army Major Brian Watters has 25 years of experience in drug rehabilitation at the Salvation Army. He was the Chairman of the Australian National Council on Drugs which was an advisory body to the Howard government and until rece...

Wendy Francis is the Queensland State Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about last weekend's election results. Click here to read.

    Caroline Norma is from the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Australia. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the report The Sex Industry in New South Wales, which was handed to the NSW government last week. The r...

Nick Goiran is a liberal backbencher in Western Australia. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about his motion to see an inquiry into the sexualisation of children. (see related news article "Call for inquiry into child sexualisation") Read the t...

Mark Brown is the state director for the Australian Christian Lobby. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the Tasmanian Attorney-General's comments in parliament recently about expanding the Anti-Discrimination Legislation. Read the transcrip...

David Hutt is the New South Wales state director of the Australian Christian Lobby. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about a bill passing in the federal lower house for an R18+ classification rating for games (see related news article R18+ game...

Elizabeth Kendal is an international religious liberty analyst and advocate. She spoke to the ACL’s Katherine Spackman about the situation in North Sudan and the persecution of Nuba people, a predominately Christian people group. Read the transcript ...

  Ruth Limkin is a blogger and commentator who writes frequently on Bread and Justice. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about Telstra selling soft porn and their response to her concerns. Read transcript of interview.

  Paul Russell is Director and founder of the national network HOPE: Preventing Euthanasia &Assisted Suicide. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the Greens MP Adam Bandt's plan to bring euthanasia up in federal parliament wi...

Wendy Francis is the Queensland State Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. She gave the ACL's Katherine Spackman an update on the political hustings in the state leading up to the March 24th election.

Lyle Shelton is the Chief of Staff at the ACL. He spoke to the  ACL's Katherine Spackman about the three same-sex marriage bills that are currently before parliament and how people can respond to the issue. Read transcript here.

Brad Huddleston is the author of the book "The Dark Side of Technology" and is often asked to speak at cyber-safety seminars. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about whether computer games should be classified the same as other forms of medi...

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 Hut...

Vicki Dunne is a Liberals MLA in the ACT and the committee chair into the inquiry of the Prositution Act 1992. She spoke to the ACL's Lyle Shelton about the report handed down last week from the inquiry and its findings. Transcript can be read here.

Jim Wallace is the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. He spoke with the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the turmoil in politics in the last week. Transcript of interview can be read here.

Stephen O'Doherty is the CEO of Christian Schools Australia. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the Gonski Review and what this will mean for Christian schools. Click here to read the transcript.

Toby Hall is the CEO of Mission Australia. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the real employment rate and how it's affecting young people the most. Click here to read the transcript.

Nigel Rooke is the CEO of Open Doors Australia. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the 2012 World Watch List that's just been released detailing the top 50 countries where persecution of Christians for religious reasons is worst.

Ian Wright is the CEO of Barnabas Fund. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about Barnabas Fund's campaign "Proclaim Freedom" and its petition to raise the profile of persecuted Christians around the world.

Wendy Francis is the Queensland State Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about last week's Make It Count forum in Queensland with the LNP's Campbell Newman. The ACL invited the Premier and Deputy Premi...

Susannah Helman is a curator at the National Library of Australia. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the Manuscripts exhibition that is featuring at the library till the 18th of March. This conversation was the second part of the interview.

Nick Jensen is the programme manager at the Lachlan Macquarie Internship. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the 2012 internship kicking off this weekend outside Canberra.

Reverend Tim Costello is the Chair of the Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the Victorian government's decision to renege on its election committment to introduce voluntary precommittment technology ...

Susannah Helman is a curator at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the Handwritten Exhibition currently on display in Canberra which features 10 centuries of manuscripts. Click here to read a ...

Bernie Finn is President of March for the Babies and Member for Western Metropolitan Region in Victoria. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the recent decision by an abortion clinic to no longer offer late term abortions in the state. Click...

Mark Brown is the Tasmanian State Director of the ACL. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the discussion paper on prostitution reform that's been released in the state. Click here to read the transcript of the interview.

Ruth Limkin is a blogger and social commentator who recently helped bring attention to stationery shop Typo's porn-themed products. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the subject.  

  Jim Wallace is the Managing Director of the ACL. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the Prime Minister's recent decision not to introduce legislation for pre-commitment technology on pokie machines by May this year. Click here...

  David Yates is from Compass Australia and organisation that's interested in seeing faith and life connect. Last week it held it's annual conference in Queensland in association with the ACL and had about 80 attendees come along. The ACL's Kather...

  Jim Wallace is the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the politics behind the asylum seeker issue, following another sinking boat off the coast off the Java at the weekend. ...

  Dr Mark Zirnsak is the Chair of the Victorian InterChurch Gambling Taskforce. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about online gambling following an article in The Australian recently. Click here to listen to the interview.

  Elizabeth Kendal is an international religious liberty analyst and advocate. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the situation in Syria and the potential challenges Christians could soon face. Click here to listen.

Rob Ward is the outgoing Victorian State Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. After being involved in the work of the ACL for the last 10 years - five years as a supporter and five years as state director - Rob is saying goodbye and heading in a...

  Jim Wallace is the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the ALP National Conference endorsing same-sex marriage in its party platform but allowing MPs a conscience vote on the...

  Mark Hadley is a film reviewer (among other things) and recently spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about some politically themed movies that are set to hit the big screen over the Christmas season. They chat about The Ides of March, T...

  Lyle Shelton is the Chief of Staff at the Australian Christian Lobby. He spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about research commissioned by The Ambrose Centre for Religious Liberty about Public attitudes towards same sex marriage in Aus...

Jennifer Lahl is from The Centre for Bioethics and Culture and is a writer, director and producer of films, including her latest one, Anonymous Father's Day. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about this film which explores the experience of thr...

David Yates is head of Compass Australia who spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the upcoming Summer Conference in Brisbane for university students. The conference is a week-long residential conference that looks at how the Bible shapes all o...

Professor Lelia Green is from the Edith Cowan University. She was on of the authors of AU Kids Online, a study that looked at the online experience of Australian children between 9-16 years of age. Among the findings, 76 per cent of kids go online d...

  Jim Wallace is the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. The ACL's Katherine Spackman interviewed Mr Wallace about the PM's decision to allow ALP members a conscience vote on same-sex marriage if a bill is introduced in par...

  Michelle Pearse is the Australian Christian Lobby's spokeswoman on prostitution and trafficking. She spoke to the ACL's Katherine Spackman about the West Australian Government's recently-introduced Prostitution Bill. Click here to listen ...

Jock McGregor is the director of the Rochester, USA, branch of L’Abri. Jock was recently in Australia to speak at the local L'Abri Fellowship about Christ and Culture. The ACL's Lyle Shelton went along and interviewed Jock about the history of L'Abri...

  Professor Geoffrey Blainey is one of Australia's most significant and popular historians. He has written some 36 full-length books including his latest "A Short History of Christianity". The ACL's Katherine Spackman interviewed Professor ...

  Joe de Bruyn is the National Secretary of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA). He is also a member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Executive, the Australian Labor Party National Executive and the Presid...

  Jim Wallace is the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. His concluding speech at ACL's National Conference 2011 addressed the question, "Where next?". Click here to listen.

  Dr Vishal Mangalwadi is an Indian Christian worldview thinker and author of The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created The Soul of Western Civilization. His Saturday speech at ACL's National Conference 2011 was about "Educating ...

  Paul O'Rourke was the editor of ACL's peer-reviewed public policy magazine Viewpoint, and the coordinator of its best interests of the child strategy. He spoke at ACL's National Conference 2011 about "How children are suffering and why th...

  Richard Eckersley is the Founding Director of Australia21 Ltd. He spoke at ACL's National Conference 2011 about "Miners’ canaries and sacrificial lambs: modern times and young people’s wellbeing". Click here to listen.

  The Hon. Kevin Andrews MP, is the Liberal Federal Member for Menzies (Vic) and the Shadow Minister for Families, Housing and Human Services. He spoke at ACL's National Conference 2011 in response to the For Kids' Sake research report. Cli...

  Professor Patrick Parkinson is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney and author of the ACL-commissioned research report, For Kids' Sake: Repairing the Social Environment for Australian Children and Young People. Professor Parkin...

  Dr Vishal Mangalwadi is an Indian Christian worldview thinker and author of The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created The Soul of Western Civilization. He presented the Friday night dinner speech at ACL's National Conference 20...