Tag Archives: ACL New South Wales

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today called on the NSW Government to rethink its failed brothel laws with the aim of ending the exploitation of women in the sex trade and protecting the amenity and character of local communities. ACL’s spokesperson on women’s issues, Michelle Pearse, said newly released information from the Government Continue Reading

Last night the NSW Government’s Surrogacy Bill 2010 was passed by the NSW Legislative Assembly. While the often strong desire of people to have children is fully understandable, ACL does not support surrogacy because of concerns for the welfare of children born through surrogacy arrangements and also for the mental and physical health of birth Continue Reading

When is an unborn baby entitled to protection? A review of NSW laws surrounding criminal actions which result in the death of an unborn child has been looking at this. However, the review failed to recommend any specific offence of ‘killing an unborn child’ or to extend the definition of manslaughter to cover this situation.

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today urged NSW parliamentarians to ensure children born into State-backed surrogacy arrangements have the benefit of the complementary love and care of both a mother and a father. ACL NSW Director David Hutt said that in moving to regulate surrogacy in NSW, the parliament at the very least Continue Reading

Media Release The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today urged the NSW Government to undertake a genuine consultation process over proposed ethics classes in schools. ACL NSW Director David Hutt today said there is widespread community concern that the NSW Government has already made up its mind on the introduction of ethics classes in the Special Continue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE For release: October 15, 2010 Time for NSW to kick its poker machine addiction The Australian Christian Lobby today urged the NSW Premier and Leader of the Opposition to stop playing politics on gambling policy. ACL’s NSW Director David Hutt, said problem gambling was a serious issue for Australia and called on the Continue Reading

MEDIA RELEASE For release October 14, 2010 ACL congratulates NSW Govt for declaring Easter Sunday a public holiday The Australian Christian Lobby has today congratulated Premier Kristina Keneally for declaring Easter Sunday a public holiday from 2011. ACL NSW Director, David Hutt said it was appropriate for the government to recognise the importance of Easter Continue Reading

NSW Health Minister, Carmel Tebbutt today introduced legislation into the Legislative Assembly that would remove the Kings Cross Medically Supervised Injecting Centre’s trial status, making it a permanent fixture. This is despite the fact that research by Drug Free Australia shows the “overdose rate in the injecting room was 36 times higher than on the Continue Reading

Yesterday nearly two hundred volunteer SRE teachers and religious leaders crammed into the NSW Department of Education and Training’s reception hall for a celebration of Special Religious Education.  Christians, Jews, Muslims and Hindus joined together to celebrate SRE and to thank the many volunteers who teach scripture classes. The inter-faith event, organised by ICCOREIS and Continue Reading

Less than 24 hours after telling Parliament in her first speech that she was committed to suicide prevention, Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann will today give notice of her intent to move legislation that would legalise euthanasia in NSW. “At a time when Australia is battling what some perceive as an epidemic of depression, measures to Continue Reading