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Rob Norman

State Director | QLD
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News articles by

Rob Norman

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  • QLD Prostitution Decriminalisation Bill

    QLD Prostitution Decriminalisation Bill

    On 15 February 2024, Yvette D’Ath, the Queensland Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence, tabled a Bill to fully decriminalise prostitution in Queensland.  If passed, Ms. D’Ath’s Bill will effectively treat prostitution like any other legitimate “work”, but without the protections that other work with risk attracts.… Read More

  • Qld: Sex Self-ID Bill final vote

    Qld: Sex Self-ID Bill final vote

    The ACL along with over 175 organisations and individuals who made submissions opposingthe Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Bill (2022) will be carefully watching theQueensland Parliament during its next sitting week commencing Tuesday 13 June. According to the Parliamentary hearing transcript, experts testified during the CommitteeInquiry that sex is immutable and that changing the birth… Read More

  • Qld: Tele-health abortion is dangerous for women

    Qld: Tele-health abortion is dangerous for women

    The Palaszczuk government is attempting to quietly rush through a tele-health abortion service which would result in the widespread distribution of MS-2 Step (mifepristone / misoprostol) in Queensland. Read More

  • QLD: Government bill undermines birth records, parental rights and women’s safety

    QLD: Government bill undermines birth records, parental rights and women’s safety

    The Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Bill 2022 was introduced by Attorney General, Shannon Fentiman, on the last Parliamentary sitting day of last year. Then, public submissions closed on 11 January, allowing the minimum of exposure. The Bill will legalise the falsification of Birth Certificates by allowing any person over the age of 16 to… Read More

  • ACT Government pushes through radical drug law reform

    ACT Government pushes through radical drug law reform

    The ACT Government has ignored the concerns of ACT Police, the Australian Federal Police Association, and 1,800 ACT residents who have signed a petition sponsored by Jeremy Hanson MLA. Read More

  • Brisbane Councillor wants to ban objections to Drag Queen Storytime

    Brisbane Councillor wants to ban objections to Drag Queen Storytime

    After Brisbane City Council rejected the concerns of over 7,000 citizens about Drag Queen Storytime in public libraries, a Councillor also wants to ban petitions to Brisbane City Council that contain so-called ‘hate speech’ that is ‘harmful and discriminatory.’ Read More

  • ACT: Overreach on Drug Decriminalisation

    ACT: Overreach on Drug Decriminalisation

    The ACT Government’s decision to decriminalise the use of hard drugs represents a massive overreach of a government which has failed to listen to its electorate or police. Read More

  • ACT: Government decriminalises illicit drugs

    ACT: Government decriminalises illicit drugs

    The ACT Government’s decision to decriminalise the possession and use of illicit drugs is irresponsible and lacks compassion. Read More

  • NSW: Government rejects parental rights bill

    NSW: Government rejects parental rights bill

    The NSW Government’s decision to withhold support for Mark Latham’s Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020 leaves parents on the outer when it comes to deciding the suitability of material taught to their children.   Read More

Media releases by

Rob Norman

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  • Damning evidence against relaxed prostitution laws

    As the Queensland Government prepares to decriminalise prostitution, a declassified report released by the Australian Federal Police has revealed a clear correlation between increasingly relaxed prostitution laws and offences taking place in the Sex Industry. Queensland Political Director for the Australian Christian Lobby, Rob Norman said, “In the five years to 2022, Commonwealth offences occurring… Read More

  • Canavan and Pocock call for Inquiry into the Calvary Hospital Takeover

    The Australian Christian Lobby congratulates Senator Matt Canavan on his introduction of the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment Bill 2023, and the Senate for today referring the Bill to a Senate inquiry. Rob Norman, ACT’s ACL Director said, “ Canberrans will welcome the Senate’s consideration of whether there is sufficient community concern for the Federal… Read More

  • Palaszczuk Government bulldozes sex based rights

    The Parliament has voted along partisan lines to conflate gender and sex in its new Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Amendment Bill. The Labor majority has bulldozed this anti-science, anti-women, anti-family bill into law even though a clear majority of submissions, including experts and women’s groups, were against the bill, according to the Australian Christian… Read More

  • ACT Government prepares to remove Christian cross and ethics from Calvary Hospital

    The dismissal of Calvary Health Care’s application for an injunction to stop the takeover of Calvary Public Hospital by the ACT Supreme Court exposes the vulnerability of all Australians to totalitarianism by law, according to the Australian Christian Lobby. ACL’s ACT Political Director, Rob Norman, said today, “While there may be avenues of appeal, the… Read More

  • Hostile Calvary takeover goes to court

    The outcome of the ACT Government’s hostile takeover of Canberra’s Catholic Calvary Public Hospital is now set to be resolved in the ACT Supreme Court. Lawyers for the hospital in the ACT Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday 7 June 2023 accused the ACT Labor-Greens Government of orchestrating an “active, hostile takeover” which could ultimately lead… Read More

  • Calvary Action Commences

    Calvary Hospital has commenced legal action against the ACT Government seeking an injunction to restrain the Government from compulsorily acquiring the Calvary Public Hospital.  ACT’s Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) Director, Rob Norman said “We congratulate Calvary for commencing legal action. It is critical that the ACT Government’s activities are exposed to the scrutiny of the legal process.… Read More

  • ‘Soviet Style’ Acquisition Of Canberra Hospital A Dangerous Precedent

    The ACT Government has announced plans to mandatorily acquire Canberra’s Calvary Hospital. So unprecedented is the move, that the Labor-Greens ACT Government will introduce new legislation to execute its decision. The Catholic owned hospital has been a strong advocate for the sanctity of human life by conscientiously objecting to the provision of elective abortions and… Read More

  • The Labor Government to Support Pimps

    The Queensland Labor Government has revealed it is unfit to govern by declaring it will decriminalise pimping and profiteering from the abuse of vulnerable women by men. Read More

  • Ignorance fuels calls for assisted suicide to be extended to 16 year olds

    The Australian Christian Lobby said today that the call by ex-politician Marshall Peron (by reference to an ACT government discussion paper) for the ACT to include under 18 year olds in any assisted suicide legislation is based on ignorance. Read More

  • Palaszczuk is negligent to consider controversial abortion drug

    The abortion drug mifepristone – now being challenged in the U.S. due to safety concerns – is part of the MS-2 Step medication that would be widely distributed in Queensland through the tele-health abortion service that the Palaszczuk government wants to quietly rush through. Read More