Queensland Archive

The Queensland Director Wendy Francis's letter to supporters in the state is now available online. Since February this year we have run Meet Your Candidate forums for 28 electorates around the state. This has opened some incredible doors already...

Brisbane father Graham Preston has been jailed for eight months for peacefully protesting in front of the doors of Brisbane abortion clinics and refusing to move. Graham and his family are well known and highly respected for his unfailing commitment to...

Queenslanders went to the polls last weekend and drove the Labor Party from government in an historic and brutal election. I believe a significant factor in the defeat of the Labor party was the disdain with which Ms Anna Bligh and Mr Andrew Fraser tre...

[gallery] ACL’s Queensland Director Wendy Francis will be hosting a series of ‘Meet Your Candidate Forums’ for Queensland local council elections. Local government plays an important role in community governance. The Australian Christian Lo...

If you're making your way to Easterfest this year you'll be able to catch up with ACL's Chief of Staff Lyle Shelton and Queensland Director Wendy Francis. They'll have a stall where you can drop by and will also be running some sessions during the thre...

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.

MEDIA RELEASE Saturday, 24rd March, 2012. The Australian Christian Lobby has congratulated the LNP on its resounding win in the Queensland election. ACL's Qld Director Wendy Francis said she was pleased that LNP Leader Campbell Newman had e...

MEDIA RELEASE March 14, 2012 Unproven mudslinging to besmirch character without proof of wrongdoing is clearly unacceptable in political debate, the Australian Christian Lobby said today. ACL’s Queensland Director Wendy Francis said that whi...

  Tuesday night's meet your candidate forum in Cairns for the electorates of Cairns and Mulgrave had more than 100 North Queenslanders attend. This was despite Labor candidates refusing to attend the forums. The LNP candidate for Mulgrave R...

MEDIA RELEASE Monday, March 12, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby says the LNP's credentials on same-sex marriage are solid and Campbell Newman has always said he'll support the democratic decision of the party's grassroots. "It is the party...

MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, March 8, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby has called on the LNP to disendorse Mark Boothman as its candidate for the seat of Albert should this morning’s allegations about his association with pornographic websites be...

In the lead up to the Queensland election, Associated Christian Schools has released an election statement. The first part of the statement can be found below or the full statement can be viewed here. Education is a key driver in securing Australiaâ...

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.

The Queensland Director, Wendy Francis, letter to supporters in the state is now available online. Queensland is in the grip of election fever as I pen this letter to you. We can’t open a newspaper or turn on the TV news without hearing of the lat...

Media Release Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 The Queensland Premier’s extraordinary accusations that the Australian Christian Lobby is not ‘open or honest’ and that it is a ‘far right-wing group’ are disappointing, the ACL’s Qld Directo...

This morning the ABC  played a snippet of LNP Campbell Newman’s comments at yesterday’s Meet Your Candidate Forum in Ashgrove about repealing the civil unions act that was passed at the end of the year. The ABC’s Spencer Howsen spoke to the Fami...

MEDIA RELEASE Monday, 27th February, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby has launched the website www.qldvotes.org.au to help voters make an informed decision at this year’s state election on March 24th. ACL’s Queensland Director Wendy Fra...

On Monday, February 20th, the ACL's Queensland Director held a Meet Your Candidate Forum in Kingaroy. The South Burnett Business News went along to the forum and wrote the following story below on its website. Kingaroy Has A Very Polite Night With T...

MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby has expressed concern that Labor’s Kate Jones is unavailable to attend a forum for Ashgrove candidates this Sunday. ACL Queensland Director Wendy Francis said it was...

On Wednesday the 8th of February the Australian Christian Lobby held a leaders' forum in Queensland in the lead up to the state election on March 24th. The LNP's Campbell Newman address the Christian constituency and his address is in this video below....

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...

The ABC went along to the Make it Count Forum in Brisbane last night and took some excerpts of the LNP's Campbell Newman's address to Christian Leaders. Click here to listen to the excerpts they took.

MEDIA RELEASE Wednesday, February 8, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed Campbell Newman's willingness to address ChristianLeaders and his forthrightness with them in the lead up to the state election, at tonight’s Make it Coun...

Media Release Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Media reports citing Deputy Premier Andrew Fraser as claiming that Health Minister Geoff Wilson attended an Australian Christian Lobby Leaders forum at the 2009 election are incorrect. ACL’s Queensla...

MEDIA RELEASE For release: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 The Australian Christian Lobby will proceed with a live webcast in Queensland with LNP Leader Campbell Newman on Wednesday February 8 from 5:30pm, despite the Premier and Deputy Premier decli...

[caption id="attachment_15953" align="alignright" width="98" caption="David van Gend"][/caption] Dr David van Gend is a Toowoomba GP who had an opinion piece published in The Courier Mail this week responding to calls to liberalise abortion in Queen...

MEDIA RELEASE For release: December 6, 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby has called on the Queensland Government to retain the remaining protections for the unborn in Queensland law, and to reject the calls of those who would seek to liberalise ...

Ruth Limkin is a Brisbane pastor and freelance writer who had an opinion piece published in The Courier Mail today entitled "Same-sex debate one of division". It's in light of the vote in Queensland parliament this afternoon on the Civil Partnerships B...

Click here to read ACL's submission to Research Director Legal Affairs, Police, Corrective Services and Emergency Services Committee on The Civil Partnerships Bill 2011.

MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, November 10th, 2011 The Queensland Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Wendy Francis, has appeared before the Legal Affairs Committee on the Civil Partnership Bill this morning, urging the Parliament to reject the ...

Queensland Director Wendy Francis addressed the Queensland Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee this morning on the Civil Partnership Bill. Please find below Ms Francis' speech. I represent the Australian Christian Lobby here today and thank you fo...

The Queensland Director, Wendy Francis, letter to supporters in the state is now available online. What a busy time it’s been since my last letter. There are two very pressing issues that I would like to bring to your attention. Click her...

Media Release October 26, 2011 The Bligh Government is inappropriately using the Queensland Parliament to give a platform to same-sex marriage advocates in order to influence the outcome of debate at Labor’s National Conference in December, acc...

MEDIA RELEASE Tuesday October 25, 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby’s Queensland Director Wendy Francis said tonight’s debate on same-sex civil unions is a waste of Queensland Parliamentary time seemingly designed to appease a small Green c...

[caption id="attachment_9854" align="alignleft" width="90" caption="Dr Van Gend"][/caption] Queensland Doctor David Van Gend was expected to face the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Board today over comments he made in an article in The Courier Mail in...

Queensland Director Wendy Francis's letter to supporters is now available online. Since I wrote the last State Director’s letter there has been much reason for encouragement in regards to the debate surrounding marriage in our country. On 24th Aug...

Queensland Director Wendy Francis' letter to supporters in the state is now available online. In 1 Chronicles it is said of the men of Issachar that they understood the times and knew what God would have them do. At this time in Australia it is impe...

Media Release For release: July 18, 2011   The Queensland LNP conference vote yesterday in support of marriage underscores the imperative that bi-partisan support for the institution is not fractured when the ALP National Conference in Decembe...

Title: ACL Queensland Conference - Saturday August 6, 2011 Location: Nexus Church, 151 Flockton Street, Everton Park Link out: Click here for conference registration form. Description: Every now and then an opportunity comes along that’s too good ...

In brief: ACL in the media over sexualised bus shelter ads, Report the abusive Facebook attacks on ACL’s Qld Director Wendy Francis (see links below), Support Wendy Francis’ Facebook page calling for Outdoor Advertising to be G-rated. As you m...

ACL's Wendy Francis has appeared on breakfast televsion show Sunrise to clarify her opposition to a condom advertisement that appeared in Brisbane bus shelters. She said: "We’ve got condom ads, and when we say it’s not sexual it’s about safe se...

Media Release For release: June 1, 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby has expressed concern at the level of abuse one of its staff members has received from some homosexual activists following Adshel’s decision to remove sexualised advertisements ...

[caption id="attachment_7243" align="alignright" width="131" caption="The bus shelter advertisement which was removed"][/caption] Media Release For release: May 31, 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) says a grass-roots campaign has been succ...

Media Release For release: Wednesday May 11, 2011 The tragic news story this week of the first surrogate mother under Queensland’s Surrogacy Act regretting her participation in the surrogacy arrangement demonstrates the fraught nature of surrogacy,...

This weekend the Seven Network and the Australian Christian Channel will be screening ‘Hope in the Summer of Sorrow’, a documentary which shows how Scripture Union Queensland (SUQLD) helped out with the flood recovery in south-east Queensland in Ja...

Queensland's State Director Wendy Francis has written an opinion piece published in Sight Magazine today on the impact of billboards and outdoor advertising on children. See here. It was British writer Norman Douglas who said -“You can tell the idea...

Queensland Director Wendy Francis' letter to supporters is now available online. What a big month in Queensland politics with the LNP Opposition Leader and Deputy stepping down to make way for former Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman in his quest to...

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the National Party John Anderson recently spoke at the Brisbane Lord Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast on Thursday 10 March, with roughly 350 people in attendance. His speech, entitled ‘Lose the faith – lose the ...

Media Release 10th March 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby has appointed Wendy Francis as its new Queensland Director. Wendy replaces Queensland Director Peter Earle, who filled the role in a part-time capacity. Wendy is a former editor of the Qu...

[caption id="attachment_5042" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="Tim Mander, CEO SU Qld"][/caption] Tim Mander, CEO of Scripture Union Queensland, has written a letter to update people on the progress of the High Court challenge to Federal funding...

Title: Business Networking Breakfast Location: Brisbane Link out: Click here Description: The pro-life crisis pregnancy group, Priceless Life Centre is hosting a Business Networking Breakfast with Senator Barnarby Joyce on the 11th of March in Brisbane...

QLD Director Wendy Francis’ letter to supporters in the state is available online. My name is Wendy Francis and I recently commenced as ACL’s Queensland State Director. My husband Peter is Senior Pastor at City Tabernacle Baptist Church in Brisban...

Media Release Recent independent polling of a representative group of 400 people has shown that Queenslanders are far more conflicted on the issue of abortion than vocal abortion activists are claiming, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) said today....

A recent poll commissioned by the Australian Family Association to gauge ‘What Queenslanders Really Think About Abortion’, has shown that citizens of the sunshine state are far more conflicted on the issue of abortion than what the vocal abortion a...

Activists are pressuring Queensland state politicians to remove from the law all remaining protections for the unborn. Get invovled in 'Alive and Kicking' to give a voice to the voiceless. In Brief GetUp organisation misrepresents truth on abortion...

A Cairns couple charged with procuring an abortion under Queensland law have been found not guilty by a jury in the District Court today. In response to the verdict, the Queensland Branch of the World Federation of Doctors who Respect Human Life, in a...

[caption id="attachment_3466" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Janelle's baby at 19 weeks. Abortion activists want to remove all protection for the unborn."][/caption] Emboldened by the tragic Cairns case, abortion activists are noisy this...

MEDIA RELEASE For release: October 11, 2010 ACL applauds Bligh for keeping abortion election promise The Australian Christian Lobby today applauded the Bligh Government for upholding its election commitment not to decriminalise abortion in the face ...

MEDIA RELEASE For release: October 8, 2010 Abortion trial exposes lack of support for pregnant women The compassionate policy response to the circumstances of the Tegan Leach case is to provide greater social support for pregnant women and their unb...

Qld Director Peter Earle’s letter to supporters in the State is available online. A big ‘thanks’ to everyone who helped during the recent federal election campaign. We conducted seven ‘Meet Your Candidate Forums’ in strategic electorates for...

For release: February 10, 2010 With debate about to start today on the Surrogacy Bill 2009, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has written to all Queensland Labor and Independent MPs urging them to do what is right and delay and split the bill so th...

For release: February 10, 2010 Queensland Premier Anna Bligh appeared to be suggesting in Parliament this afternoon that Queensland would be out of step with other States if it did not extend surrogacy to homosexuals and singles. However this is no...

Click here to read ACL’s submission to the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney?General on the Review of the Legal Status of Children Being Cared for by Same?Sex Parents.

Click here to read ACL’s submission to the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney?General on the Queensland Government Model for the Decriminalisation of Altruistic Surrogacy and the Transfer of Legal Parentage.