Last week the NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman introduced the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Loss of Foetus) Bill 2021 (Zoe’s Law) into the NSW Parliament. It is an important step in recognising the preciousness of each life.

In an historic vote on Saturday 6 November 2021, the South Australian Liberal Women’s Council voted to support the Nordic or Equality Model of Prostitution Law Reform and to call on Liberal Government to implement it.

There is good news to report about the submissions that you provided to the Select Committee on the Statures Amendment (Repeal of Sex Work Offences) Bill 2020.

It now appears that the attempt by the Marshall/Chapman government to amend the Equal Opportunity Act to severely curtail the balancing clauses for religious institutions has been shelved.

In March 2022 South Australia will go to the polls. This is the first of a series of articles I will write to spark your thinking about issues that may be alive leading up to the election. 

The SA Lower House passed an assisted suicide Bill on 9 June 2021. As Paul Kelly said in an article in The Australian, such a Bill, in a time of extensive societal disruption to save lives from Covid-19, reveals the West’s – and our state’s – moral bankruptcy.

This week is National Palliative Care Week in Australia. It is a time that the nation’s mind should be focused on supporting and caring for the terminally ill.

Coming on top of supporting abortion to birth, the Government is taking South Australia down a dark road of supporting death. The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill passed the Upper House last week, 14 votes to 7.

Ten terminally ill South Australians took their own lives in the first six months of last year, according to a recent report by The Advertiser. The Australian Christian Lobby says this should stimulate the community to provide greater care for people in the final chapter of their lives.

It is with great sadness that I report to you that the SA Lower House passed the Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2020 last Friday 18 February.