Volunteers collected more than 10,000 flyers and maps last weekend so they can start letterboxing homes in the electorates of Aston, Bruce, Deakin, Hotham and Kooyong – all to raise awareness about Victoria’s Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition law.

For the past decade, on a day in August, Australians have been encouraged to ‘Wear It Purple’. In particular our school students are targeted with this campaign, with schools right across our nation enthusiastically promoting the event. All areas of employment are getting on board, including our police force. Promoted as a day in which to ‘celebrate diversity and young people from the LGBTIQA+ community’, a darker, very alarming, side has emerged.

Proponents of identity politics say their identity is their politics.

An important discussion has burst into our Australian psych. Everyone is talking about the rise in sexual harassment cases – stories emerging from our school yards to our parliament.

Katy Faust and Stacy Manning’s book, Them Before Us, reverses the usual adult-centric conversation about marriage, family, surrogacy, adoption, reproductive technology, divorce, same-sex parenting, cohabitation and even polygamy by considering these issues from the child’s perspective and rights.

Six grassroots movement events were held during March in Wheelers Hill, Bundoora, Frankston, Chirnside Park, Werribee, and Tullamarine. It was a great joy to meet with our supporters in person – and thank you to the churches that hosted these events!

When I was in Adelaide recently at the Walk for Life, a midwife shared a disturbing testimony about a time when she was present during a late-term abortion.

Fiona Patten tabled her Anti-Vilification Bill in 2019, seeking to amend the existing Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001 to include a few protected attributes such as gender identity and sexual orientation, while lowering the bar to define vilification.

A massive thank you.

Thank you for taking part in our first National Day of Action for 2021.

Despite the polls predicting a massive swing to Labor in the WA state election on Saturday, ACL volunteers were determined to get the word out that the Labor Premier, Mark McGowan, has refused to rule out introducing freedom-destroying conversion legislation like Victoria’s.