Tag Archives: ACL New South Wales

ACL has held its final two candidates’ forums for the NSW election this week in Lake Macquarie and Wollongong. Thank you to all the wonderful church leaders and ACL volunteers who helped organise and run candidates’ forums.

MEDIA RELEASE For release: 10th March 2011 The Australian Christian Lobby has today publicly released the results of a survey conducted of parties contesting the upcoming NSW election on a range of issues of concern to Christians. The results of the survey have been posted on ACL’s NSW election website, www.nswvotes.org.au, which will be promoted Continue Reading

ACL in the media – a wrap-up of the last week’s commentary -          MD Jim Wallace debated euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke on the Kerri-Anne show here (10/02/2011). -          MD Jim Wallace spoke to Perth’s 98.5 Sonshine FM about the ACL’s online marriage petition and Tony Abbott’s remarks about the soldier who died in Afghanistan

MEDIA RELEASE For Release: 3rd February 2011 The NSW community’s hope the election might usher in a new era of public confidence in politics was in doubt today with the Opposition breaking a key election promise before the election has even occurred. The Australian Christian Lobby’s NSW Director David Hutt said the Christian constituency was extremely Continue Reading

The NSW Government yesterday pushed legislation through both houses of parliament which is aimed at ensuring that ethics classes are run in competition with Scripture classes in NSW schools even if the Opposition wins the election next March. The move followed on from the NSW Opposition’s announcement on November 23 that they would scrap the Continue Reading

What is the point of a “non-judgemental” ethics course? That’s the question posed by ACL’s NSW Director David Hutt writing on the The Punch opinion website. With the NSW Government moving to legislate ethics classes in competition with Scripture classes in NSW primary schools, David says it is time to ask some more probing questions Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today welcomed the overnight passage of legislation making Easter Sunday a public holiday in New South Wales. ACL’s NSW Director, David Hutt, said the addition of a public holiday on Easter Sunday meant more people would be able to celebrate Easter Sunday with family and friends.

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today congratulated the NSW Opposition for making a stand to protect Special Religious Education Classes (SRE). ACL’s NSW Director David Hutt welcomed the announcement by the NSW Opposition that they will scrap the St James Ethics Centre’s secular ethics classes if they win the March 2011 state election.

Media Release The NSW Government’s decision to roll-out ethics classes in primary schools next year actively discriminates against children of faith who will not be able to attend both special religious education (SRE) and ethics classes and also risks undermining a system of teaching SRE which has operated effectively for more than a century, the Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today urged the NSW Government not to rubber-stamp the roll-out of ethics classes in competition with Scripture classes – saying this is a “hot button” issue for the Christian constituency. “Cabinet needs to understand the depth of concern in the Christian constituency and in the community generally about Continue Reading