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  • ACT Government Tramples Basic Human Right to Conscience 

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    Joshua Rowe

    This afternoon, the Select Committee on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2023 released the majority report, presenting 27 recommendations to the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly.  Among the 83 stakeholders consulted on the legislation, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) firmly advocated against the availability of assisted suicide in the territory. Additionally, the ACL suggested that… Read More

  • ACT government plan to outlaw conscience

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    Joshua Rowe

    The ACT government intent to introduce penalties for health care workers who conscientiously object to administering a poison for the purpose of assisting a patient to suicide or who fail to provide information about how to access assisted suicide, even when done so on religious grounds, has met with resistance from faith leaders. Canberra and… Read More

  • ACT Bill Equates to Retail Suicide

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    Rob Norman

    The ACT Government has tabled the most radical Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill in the Nation.   Labor’s Tara Cheyne introduced the Bill today, 31st October, which will allow medical professionals, other than Doctors, to assess whether patients can access medically assisted dying for conditions that have no life expectancy time frame. Rob Norman, Acting ACT… Read More

  • Not enough room to fit Calvary Hospital supporters into Public Hearing

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    Wendy Francis

    Supporters of Canberra’s Calvary Hospital were turned away from the Public Hearing into the handling of the compulsory takeover of their facility, due to insufficient seating in the committee room.  Wendy Francis, National Director of the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), said, “The large group of Canberrans who turned out to support Calvary Health Care and… Read More

  • Jeremy Hanson leads ACT in defence of children

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    Rob Norman

    The Labor-Greens led ACT Government should abandon its push to install the most radical assisted suicide laws in the country and rule out plans to allow children and people with dementia to access assisted suicide, according to the Australian Christian Lobby. Later in the year, ACT MLA’s will have an opportunity to vote against these… Read More

  • Minors treated like adults in radical ACT Euthanasia Report

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    Dan Flynn

    The ACT Government is highlighting its determination to have the most radical euthanasia legislation, specifically targeting teens, according to the Australian Christian Lobby. This morning in the ACT Legislative Assembly, Minister for Human Rights, Ms. Tara Cheyne asserted that Canberrans agree that “limiting VAD to over eighteen-year-olds was an arbitrary limit, given that young people… Read More

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

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

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    Rob Norman

    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

    Hostile Calvary takeover goes to court

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    Rob Norman

    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 Action Commences

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    Rob Norman

    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

  • Senate Abortion Committee erases pro-life voices

    Senate Abortion Committee erases pro-life voices

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    Christopher Brohier

    The Orwellian named Universal Access to Reproductive Healthcare Senate Committee (aka the Committee to push abortion), has denied the Fair Go principle by refusing to publish all of the submissions made by ordinary Australians. Christopher Brohier, the Australian Christian Lobby’s National Director said today, “The Abortion Committee has said, ‘The Committee has received a large volume of material… Read More