“The first thing that a totalitarian regime tries to do is to get at the children, to distance them from the subversive, varied influences of their families, and indoctrinate them in their rulers’ view of the world.”

Those words were penned by five judges of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in 2016.

It is astonishing that they felt the need to use such language about a law which had passed the Scottish Parliament. That is, a democratic government with a great pedigree of freedom – not, in fact, a totalitarian regime.

The Victorian Education Minister, James Merlino’s triumphant claims at the ALP State Conference on the weekend, that the Safe Schools program has been introduced into 98 per cent of Victorian secondary schools,will be deeply concerning to parents in Victoria,warns the Australian Christian Lobby.

A few months ago, I read a most heart-breaking Australian legal case.

It concerned a 15-year-old girl who was approved for a double mastectomy because she thinks she is a boy.

By now her body will be mutilated forever.

I was always taught that if something waddles like a duck, and quacks like a duck...then it’s a duck.

In March 2018, the ACT Government unveiled its answer to the Safe Schools program, rebranded now as the Safe and Inclusive Schools Initiative.

In March Queensland’s Attorney-General’s Department released a discussion paper entitled: Registering Life Events: Recognising sex and gender diversity and same-sex families.

The Australian Christian Lobby welcomes the desire of the new South Australian Labor leader, Peter Malinauskas, to listen to South Australians.

Review of Ryan Anderson’s book ‘When Harry became Sally. Responding to the Transgender Movement’ by Ryan T Anderson. Published by Encounter Books, New York.

ACL is hosting a number of events in Australia throughout April. Book your tickets here

We once thought these stories lay at the fringes. Passing fads that could never take hold. Amusements to be mocked and passed over.

Yesterday The Australian reported that the University of Sydney Union, one of Australia’s most prestigious debating clubs, will field teams in 2018 that are comprised mostly of “non-cis-males, wom*n, and persons marginalised by white supremacy.”

Many Northern Territorians will be today wondering how the Territorian Government agreed to take on the funding of the controversial so-called Safe Schools program which teaches radical gender theory but is being touted as an anti-bullying program.