Australian Capital Territory Archive

Thursday, December 8, 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby said the announcement by the ACT Government of its Civil Unions legislation was not only a brazen admission of the sole motivation behind “Territory Rights” act, but also demonstrated cle...

Recently The Canberra Times and The Australian reported that ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries has been dumped as chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee and replaced by the rookie Greens senator Penny Wright. The Canberr...

The ACT Director, Nick Jensen, letter to supporters in the state is now available online. It is refreshing to see a stirring in the church. Last August ACL received over 680 new supporters. That’s about as many members as the different political...

 The Australian Capital Territory Director Nick Jensen's letter tosupporters is now available online.   Although it is the strong desire of ACL, and indeed Christians all over Australia, to deal with issues that can have a positive and redemptive ...

Click here to read ACL's submission to the Human Rights Unit on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights in the ACT.

The Australian Capital Territory’s Director Nick Jensen’s letter to supporters in the state is now available online. The feedback we are getting from politicians who have been canvassing their electorates’ views on same-sex marriage is overwhe...

Click here to read ACL's submission to the ACT Law Reform Advisory Council on the Legal Recognition of the Gender and Sex Diverse Community in the ACT.

Click here to read ACL's submission into Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety Inquiry into the operation of the Prostitution Act 1992.

Media Release For release: Monday May 23, 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby has rejected a call by an ACT fertility specialist to commercialise fertility treatments in the territory. Commercialising surrogacy and egg donation would take advantage ...

[caption id="attachment_6854" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Left: ACL's Nick Jensen and Michelle Pearse give evidence at the inquiry"][/caption] The ACL has given evidence at a prostitution inquiry in the ACT. ACT Director Nick Jensen an...

MEDIA RELEASE For release: Thursday 5 May, 2011 Federal Labor should not put itself in the position of having to inevitably waste parliamentary time to override an ACT attempt to legislate same-sex marriage, according to the Australian Christian Lob...

  [caption id="attachment_6147" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Nick Jensen"][/caption] “You can’t be used by multiple men day in and day out and think that you are actually empowered,” – former prostituted woman 'Julie', who worked ...

The Australian Capital Territory's Director Nick Jensen's letter to supportersin the state is now available online. It is amazing how quickly things can happen between letters. The first significant move of late has been Bob Brown’s “Territory R...

The ACT Government is asking for submissions into the prostitution industry after the death of a 17-year-old girl, found overdosed in a Canberra brothel. The Legislative Assembly is currently taking submissions until the end of March, and will then ho...

ACT Director Nick Jensen's letter to supporters in the state is available online. Welcome to another year. It is a big year with a NSW election coming up, as well as the National Labor Conference which could well change the historical and biblical def...

[caption id="attachment_1829" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Jim Wallace"][/caption] Australian Christian Lobby's Managing Director Jim Wallace spoke at the opening of the ACT Legal year in Canberra. Simplicity in a complex world Address to ...

In this year's first Political Spot ACL's new PR Officer Katherine Spackman interviews ACL’s NSW Director David Hutt about this year's state election, ACT director Nick Jensen about how the recent Compass conference for students went in Brisbane and ...

ACT Director Nick Jensen’s letter to supporters in the Territory is available online. The ACT Assembly is sitting once more, with some important decisions to be made, but one can be sure that all parties are now looking toward the ACT election in 20...

Title: A talk on euthanasia – Canberra event Location: Hughes Baptist Church, 34 Groom Street, Hughes Link out: Click here Description: Alex Schadenberg, Founder and Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition in Canada and International Chair of...

Nick Jensen writing in the Canberra City News of September 9-15, 2010: Before the last ACT election in 2008, our local government responded to a question regarding Canberra’s prostitution industry with the following: “There is no illegal sex ind...

Last week another illegal suburban brothel was found in the nation’s capital. Before the last ACT election in 2008, the ACT government responded to a question regarding Canberra’s prostitution industry with the following: “There is no illegal sex...

ACT Director Nick Jensen’s letter to supporters in the Territory is available online. With all the drama of the federal election, it is easy to miss what is happening in the surrounding areas of the federal parliament building! We must, however, not...

MEDIA RELEASE The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today congratulated ACT Greens Party Convener, Meredith Hunter, on moves to introduce a voluntary code of conduct for retailers to help combat the sexualisation of children as well as a proposal to ed...

Media Release: Friday, May 28, 2010 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today backed mooted action to reduce poker machine numbers in the ACT and put more funds into addressing problem gambling, saying that more attention needs to be given to the d...

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 a...

Media Release: November 23, 2009 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today questioned Chief Minister John Stanhope’s claims to have a mandate to introduce the ACT civil partnerships legislation with its ‘marriage-like’ ceremonies. Respondi...

Media Release: Friday, November 13, 2009 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will address Christians and engage with a number of key Christian leaders at the Australian Christian Lobby’s National Conference to be held in Canberra on November 20 and 21. ...

Media Release: Friday, October 30, 2009 Values-based teaching is vital for the healthy development of young people and needs greater support in the ACT rather than suspending it on the basis of an over-reaction by one or two parents, the Australian ...

Media Release: Monday, September 21, 2009 The Australian Christian Lobby has called on the Federal Government to honour its election commitment to uphold marriage between a man and a woman in the face of reports the ACT Labor caucus has decided to b...

Media Release:  Monday, May 11, 2009 Nine people controlling a government with a record for radical social engineering should be reason enough for the Federal Government to reject ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope’s calls for more power, according ...

Media Release: Thursday, 26 February, 2009 Queensland’s political parties need to confirm that they will place Australian Sex Party-affiliated candidates last on how-to-vote cards in the March 21 election, according to the Australian Christian Lob...

Media Release: Tuesday, 16 September, 2008 Neither major party in the ACT is looking to further liberalise the territory’s surrogacy laws, according to commitments given to Christians at ‘Make it Count ACT’ last night. Both parties committe...

Media Release: Thursday, 11 September, 2008 In the lead up to the ACT election, the Territory’s Attorney General and Opposition Leader are to address Christians at a special event in Canberra and answer questions from a range of ACT Christian lead...

Media Release: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today expressed concern that a Victorian teacher’s sexually charged poses on a national television program could send the wrong messages to children who are already deali...

Media Release: Sunday, 15th June, 2008 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has today called for a Pause for a Cause in the annual New Year’s Eve fireworks around the nation, so that the money saved in fireworks during it can be donated annually t...

Media Release: Monday, 4 February, 2008 A decision by the British Government to allow people in polygamous marriages to claim extra welfare benefits illustrates the policy dilemma created when heterosexual marriage is compromised, according to the A...

Media Release: Saturday, 2 February, 2008 The ACT Government’s decision to support a small rally today in favour of same sex civil unions while previously ignoring far bigger rallies against same sex adoption is further proof that they are working...

Media Release: Tuesday, 29 January, 2008 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today said that it was disappointed that a guest worker scheme for Pacific Islanders appears to have been put on the back burner and urged the Federal Government to give i...

Media Release: Thursday, 20 December, 2007 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today congratulated the South Sydney Leagues Club on its decision to get rid of poker machines and said it hoped the move would lead the way for other clubs. ACL Mana...

Media Release: Monday, 17 December, 2007 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today thanked Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for again confirming Labor’s commitment to upholding the special status of heterosexual marriage and dismissing the idea that Fed...

Media Release: Thursday, November 15, 2007 Around 120 Christian voters from a range of denominations attended a ‘Meet Your Candidate Forum’ organised by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) in Canberra for local Senate candidates last night. ...

Media Release: Saturday, 22 September, 2007 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today backed calls to ban public funding of IVF services for lesbians and single women. “The rights of children to at least have the opportunity of having a mother...

For Release: Friday, August 10, 2007 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today welcomed initiatives from Australia’s two major political parties to help safeguard families. Speaking at last night’s ‘Federal election 2007: Make it Count’ ...

Media Release: Tuesday, 6 March, 2007 The Australian Christian Lobby was disappointed to see the admission that the fraudulent use of an email purporting to represent its views, had indeed been admitted as coming from a staffer in the office of a Mi...

Media Release: Monday, 5 March, 2007 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today said it was saddened to learn that an email misrepresenting its position on the Stanhope Government’s now lapsed Civil Partnerships Bill is believed to have come from ...

Media Release: Monday, 23 October, 2006 Jon Stanhope’s proposed re-hash of the civil unions act will still mimic marriage, according to Jim Wallace, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby. “It seems that all Mr Stanhope will do i...

Click here to read ACL’s submission on Proposals for Racial and Religious Vilification in the ACT.

Media Release: Friday 22 September, 2006 What: Mr Costello will address a National Press Club audience of senior representative leaders from the spectrum of denominations in Australia. Other speakers include Mr Wayne Swan and are listed below. ...

Media Release: Friday, 22 September, 2006 Christian leaders from across Australia will gather tonight and tomorrow for the Australian Christian Lobby National Conference at the National Press Club, Canberra. Many have come to hear Hon Peter Costel...

Media Release: Friday, 15 September, 2006 Jim Wallace, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, has welcomed Senator Natasha Stott Despoja’s admission that implementing the recommendations of the Lockhart Review would involve permittin...

Media Release: Thursday, 15 June, 2006 The Australian Christian Lobby applauded the Government and Family First’s successful defeat of the disallowance motion, which might otherwise have reinvigorated the ACT’s civil union legislation. “The...

Media Release: Tuesday, 13 June, 2006 The Government’s action to overturn the ACT’s civil unions legislation with effect today, was welcomed by the Australian Christian Lobby as not only protecting marriage but justified, because Mr Stanhope nev...

Media Release: Wednesday, 7 June, 2006 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) indicated its disappointment at the initial statement of Mr Beazley, opposing the Governments intention to overturn the ACT’s civil union legislation. "Mr Beazley is on...

Media Release: Friday, 12 May, 2006 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) is calling on the federal government to show its resolve and overturn the new ACT Civil Unions Act, which still equates a civil union with a marriage. The ACT Legislative Assem...

Media Release: Thursday, 11 May, 2006 Thirty-six (36) ACT church leaders have expressed their concerns about the Civil Unions Bill to Jon Stanhope in a Joint Statement, submitted to the Chief Minister this morning. David Yates, Chief of Staff of ...

Media Release: Wednesday, 10 May, 2006 Jim Wallace, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, again called on the Stanhope government to recognise community concern in relation to the establishment of a same sex Civil Union which equates ...

Media Release: Monday 1 May, 2006 Jon Stanhope’s proposed amendments to the ACT Civil Unions Bill still confuse civil unions with marriage, according to Jim Wallace, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL). “Mr Stanhope’s ...

Media Release: Wednesday, 29 March, 2006 The Executive Chairman of the Australian Christian Lobby, Jim Wallace, is astounded that the ACT Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope, is so obviously and deliberately undermining the Federal Marriage Act. The Civil ...

Media Release: Thursday, 9 March, 2006 Richard Thackway, Australian Christian Lobby ACT Director, welcomes new laws, passed by the Stanhope government on 7th March, which increases the penalty for assault on pregnant women. Mr Thackway claims tha...

Media Release: Friday, 12 August, 2005 Mr. Richard Thackway, ACT Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, claimed that the Stanhope Government’s Recognition of Same Sex Relationships Discussion Paper had little legal grounding and would provide...