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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

Australian Greens’ leader Bob Brown is philosophically a long way from Nick Clegg in British politics,  according to an opinion piece by Angela Shanahan in Saturday’s The Australian. The party is underpinned by a “green ethic” which “directly contradicts the old Christian, biblically based ethic of man at the centre of creation” , Shanahan writes. Continue Reading

With just four days until ‘2010 Make it Count’ momentum is building – with churches continuing to register and the mainstream media starting to take notice. Writing in today’s Canberra Times, emeritus professor John Warhurst says denominations and churches getting together is a vital factor in the Christian constiuency’s influence of government. “This is just Continue Reading

ACL has joined fellow pro-family group Family Voice Australia, and Liberal senators Julian McGauran and Guy Barnett, in a Federal Court appeal against the release of the disturbing 1975 film Salo. The film had previously been refused classification on six separate occasions, the most recent in 2008. Salo, which depicts the kidnap, torture and sexual Continue Reading

Canadian television journalist Victor Malarek has asked the questions about Australia’s sex trade our own journalists and politicians have failed to ask. Speaking at a forum in Parliament House in Canberra this week, Malarek ridiculed the idea of legalising brothels saying prostitution is the most dangerous ‘profession’ on the planet. Politicians who had bought the Continue Reading

Why Christians should question the ‘Australian Bill of Rights’… with our ACL Director, Jim Wallace