28/11 Anna Patty Education Editor,SMH.com.au |THE state school registration and curriculum authority has investigated the teaching of creation theory in science classes at a Christian school. The Board of Studies responded to a complaint about Pacific Hills Christian School in Dural and will hand down its findings early next month.
...The head of Christian Schools Australia, Stephen O'Doherty, said his organisation had found no reason for Pacific Christian School to lose its registration. "The whole thing is a complete furphy," he said. The school did not teach intelligent design or "creationism" - creation as scientific theory. He said the school had met the Board of Studies syllabus requirements in teaching evolution theory as science.
"It doesn't breach Darwinian theory to ask who set up the world to work in this way or even to say who was there before the big bang," he said. "We are not arguing for the ability to replace science with some other theory."
Chris Bonnor, the former head of the NSW Secondary Schools Principals Council, made the original complaint about Pacific Hills after viewing a television clip that briefly showed how a science class was taught.
He said he did not believe the school had implemented the Board of Studies science syllabus in its teaching of evolution.
"The science lesson in the school was not balanced," Mr Bonnor said. "It is fine to teach God behind evolution, but not in a science class.
QLD: New Children's Hospital will have less beds
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Mark McArdle MP | THE Beattie-Bligh Government' s new Children's Hospital will mean there will be less overnight hospital beds for sick children in the future. In Queensland Parliament today, Deputy Opposition Leader and Shadow Health Minister Mark McArdle asked the Health Minister whether the current total of 225 children's overnight hospital beds (Mater Children 's Hospital + Royal Children's Hospital) would be improved upon.
The response was pure political speak. There would be some discrepancies between the new and old Children's Hospitals, the Health Minister said. "The Opposition cannot support a process that closes down a centre of excellence, the Royal Children's Hospital, and leaves Queensland children with less quality public health services than already exist," Mr McArdle said. "Is this how the Beattie-Bligh Government plans for growth?"
"From day one the Beattie-Bligh Government promised Queenslanders a new and better Children's Hospital, but now we are finding out that is simply not true," he said. "There has been a lot of controversy and a load of unanswered questions about the decision to move the Royal children's Hospital to South Brisbane Hospital. It's time the Beattie-Bligh Government came clean and made public all details about the new Children's Hospital, including any losses to beds and services. .
ACL assesses Rudd’s first year
Australian Christian Lobby | If the polls are to be believed, it’s been a very good year politically for Kevin Rudd and his team.
The results of a recent Newspoll published in The Australian show that the Prime Minister's job satisfaction rating has risen again, while Labor maintains its 10-point two-party-preferred lead over the Coalition - 55 per cent to 45 per cent.
From the electorate’s perspective there can be no doubt that much has been achieved, with the Government already having fulfilled many of its election promises or being well on the way to doing so.
There’s been the apology to the Stolen Generations, the signing of Kyoto, IR legislation has just been introduced and a start made on addressing issues of homelessness – just to name a few.
Kevin Rudd has also kept to his promises to the Christian constituency – and showed some backbone in doing so. He kept his promise to the Christian constituency to protect the status of marriage earlier in the year, despite strong pressure from the ACT Government and the homosexual lobby.
The Government has also kept promises to the homosexual community to end unfair discrimination without devaluing marriage. ACL has supported this on the basis that the concepts of natural law surrounding marriage, parenting and family were not tampered with. This has been largely achieved although ACL has some concerns with the devaluation of parenting that occurred in one of the same sex law reform bills passed in the Senate recently.
However, it was good to see Attorney-General Robert McLelland drawing a clear line in the sand despite pressure this week from Greens Leader Bob Brown for homosexual marriage to be revisited.
Mr Rudd is keeping his promise to clean up the internet by installing internet filtering at ISP level, and has also shown his concern to address poverty issues such as homelessness and the gap in life expectancy between the indigenous and white community.
The Government has also softened some of the harsh edges of the former Government’s refugee policies by ending the practice of keeping children in detention.
One of the biggest but probably largely unrecognised challenges facing the Federal Government is the need to better support marriage and family in public policy – thereby not only improving the health of our community but addressing the root causes of poverty, crime and dysfunction.
Urgent action needed to tell pollies we support internet filtering plan
21/11 Keep it Clean Media Release |The porn lobby and some in the internet industry are trying to scuttle the Government’s plan to clean up the internet for our kids.
Please take five minutes to join our Make a Stand campaign ‘Keep IT clean!’ You can quickly read up on the issue and fire off an e-mail to your local politicians. It is vital that those who profit from the degradation of women and children are not the only voices heard in this debate.
The Menace of Eugenics
20/11 Bill Muehlenberg |The reason this website exists – and many like it – is because of media bias. If the mainstream media (MSM) were doing its job properly, there may not be a need for sites such as this. But because the MSM is overwhelmingly left of centre, and overwhelmingly secular, there is a pressing need for news and views which are less secular and less leftwing. Thus CultureWatch.
... Two of the most leftist and secular MSM outlets in the US are The New York Times and The Washington Post. There was a quite amazing piece in the Post last week. It is written by Deborah Howell, an ombudsman for Post. The piece was entitled, “An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage” and it spilled the beans of the leftist slant of the Post.
She begins with these words: “The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage and what they saw as a tilt toward Democrat Barack Obama. My surveys, which ended on Election Day, show that they are right on both counts.”
BP goes Beyond Porn
21/11 Australian Christian Lobby Media Release | In a week where sex industry lobby Eros launched a political party to promote porn, petrol retailer BP Australia pulled pornographic magazines off shelves at 250 of its outlets.
BP Australia’s President, Gerry Hueston, is to be congratulated for his stand against the degradation of women. Please e-mail him now at csccomplaints@se1.bp.com. Thank him and tell him you will buy BP fuel.
Some of the magazines pulled include those imported by David Watt, cited on the Classification Board website as General Manager of Namda, a company whose imported magazines titles contain material which could encourage men to seek sex with young girls, along with rape and incest themes.
Mr Watt is also Secretary of the Eros Foundation, which this week launched the Australian Sex Party to promote porn through politics.
Unfortunately the Government’s Classification Board has either wrongly classified or failed to classify the material Mr Watt imports and it remains on sale in many other retail outlets, including corner stores.
Christian Lobby renews call for sex party to be placed last
20/11 Australian Christian Lobby Media Release |
Following the launch of the Australian Sex Party at Melbourne’s Sexpo today, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has renewed calls for Labor, Liberal and the Greens to put the party last on how-to-vote cards in upcoming elections.
“ACL calls on all three parties – and indeed all parties - to quickly confirm that they will put this party last in upcoming State and Federal elections and ensure that they have nothing to do with furthering a political party which is blatantly focussed on protecting the financial interests of those who make money from the exploitation and degradation of women,” ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said.
The Australian Sex Party.
18/11 Salt Shakers Media Release |'We are serious about sex' is the slogan for a new political party -The Australian Sex Party.
Sorry, you need to stop laughing because we are not joking. This Party, led by the very wealthy porn industry, are serious and they have serious motives – to stop you and me stopping them.
"We're concerned that religious groups are having an increasing influence on the national debate… and rising wowserism.”
But these people not only want more sexual freedom for themselves, they want to teach YOUR children all about it too.
How’s this for a classic? “There's so much concern about the sexualisation of children, children being exposed to material. I would have thought our first action would be education."
Get it? “There is so much concern” - so we have to give them MORE sex-education!!! No thought that LESS emphasis on sex might help, but somehow a greater emphasis will!
Talk about calling good evil and evil good!!!
We are Serious About Sex
Nov 2008 - from the Front page of Australia's newest political party | Sex is a wonderful thing. It's the reason we were born and (mostly) its NOT the reason we die. Sex, as gender, defines who we are and often what roles we undertake in society. It's responsible for a heck of a lot of pleasure and fulfillment in life. Also, the basis of much art, fashion and music. It entertains us, enthralls us and mystifies us. Because its such a fundamental need of human beings, it conditions much of our behaviour. And then politicians go and legislate that behaviour.
The Australian Sex Party is a political response to the sexual needs of Australia in the 21st century. It is an attempt to restore the balance between sexual privacy and sexual publicity that has been severely distorted by morals campaigners and prudish politicians.
A political party based on sex is certainly a single-issue party but to choose a bad metaphor, its a very broad church. Economic, social welfare, environmental and even defense policies have got lots to do with sex and sexuality. All those big guns and huge surpluses...
If you're sick of religious and anti-sex politicians like Steve Fielding, Brian Harradine and Fred Nile threatening to block legislation in the Senate and State Upper Houses unless they get their way on sex and gender issues, vote for someone who understands this rort.
Major parties challenged to put Sex Party last on how-to-vote cards
20/11 Australian Christian Lobby Media Release |Major parties should ensure the Australian Sex Party is placed last on how-to-vote cards in upcoming State and Federal elections, according to the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL).
"Labor and Liberal should not be gaining political advantage from a party which exists to represent the interests of those who make money from the exploitation and degradation of women," ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said today.
"Pornography and prostitution do enormous damage to women and children and the idea of mainstream political parties giving this trade seats in our nation's parliaments through preference deals, would offend the sensibilities of most Australians who believe women should be respected.
UPDATE: Victoria - IVF Bill VOTE in Legislative Council
17/11 Salt Shakers Media Release | On Thursday last week (13/11), Victoria’s Legislative Council passed the SECOND reading of the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Bill by 20 votes to 18.
The Bill which would give lesbians, homosexuals and single women access to IVF, allow the lesbian partner of a birth mother to be named as a ‘parent’ on the birth certificate and open up surrogacy laws.
The Bill was sent to the Legislation Committee - it will be back for a final third reading vote on 2 December.
IT IS VITAL that everyone contact their FIVE MLCs on this Bill
John Howard on Current
Financial
Crisis 16/11
RUDD PLAN HOLDS SCHOOLS TO RANSOM
13/11 Senator Steve Fielding, Family First | The Rudd government is holding private schools to ransom.
It is forcing them to agree to a national curriculum on private schools before anyone has even seen the detail or face losing federal funding, Family First Leader Senator Steve Fielding said today.
"These schools have a gun to their head and the Rudd government's hand is on the trigger," Senator Fielding said.
"Schools and parents are worried about being forced to sign up to the curriculum when they still don't know the details.
"This is a $28 billion scheme that the Rudd government is trying to ram through the Senate by December 4 because otherwise schools could run short of money to run their programs next year..
Still hope Victorian Upper House committee will reject ‘social engineering’ bill
13/11 Australian Christian Lobby Media Release |The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today expressed disappointment that the Assisted Reproductive Treatment Bill 2008 had passed its second reading in the Victorian Upper House but said there was still hope that the legislation committee would see the dreadful implications of the bill and reject it.
ACL Victorian Director Rob Ward said the bill had passed its second reading by the narrowest of margins (20-18) and he is hopeful that the committee’s review would further reveal to parliamentarians the way in which the bill would deconstruct families, disadvantage children and take ‘social engineering’ to a new extreme.
Speech to Senate – Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration
13/11 QLD Senator Ron Boswell - Media Release| ... Senator Moore, as chair of the Parliamentary Group on Population and Development presented the submission to the committee. In the covering letter, she writes, ‘Thank you for the opportunity to present the PGPD’s views. Yours sincerely, Senator Claire Moore, Chair.’
However, not only was the submission a straight copy of another submission; it also did not have the support of the PGPD. It was wrong to claim that the submission represented the views of the PGPD. The submission was not put before all members of the parliamentary group to gauge their support or input. It was put forward as the group’s submission without consultation.
I understand that several members of the Parliamentary Group on Population and Development have resigned or disassociated themselves from the submission. As a result of this submission going forward in their name, the credibility of the PGPD must now be seriously in question. There is a very good reason for disquiet from members of the PGPD. The submission essentially argues that abortion is a cheaper alternative to looking after children with severe disabilities.
Abortion cheaper than care, says Reproductive Health Alliance
13/11 Herald Sun | A REPRODUCTIVE health lobby group has told the Senate Medicare funding for late term abortions is cheaper than funding disability care.
A Nationals senator has accused the group of thinking "typical of the Hitler regime" after it suggested abortion was a cheaper alternative to looking after children with severe disabilities. The Australian Reproductive Health Alliance, which has as one of it aims the advancement of the status of women and girls, said removing a Medicare rebate for second-trimester abortions would save the government about $180,000 a year. Funding support services for children born with severe disabilities would cost far more, it said in a submission to a Senate committee inquiry.
.... Senator Ron Boswell, a strident pro-life supporter, described the submission as "offensive".
"Its underlying premise that some lives are worth less than others because they will cost too much to support, this is the kind of thinking that was typical of the Hitler regime," he told the Senate today.
The inquiry, which received nearly 500 submissions, examined the impact of disallowing expectant mothers access to a Medicare rebate - item 16525 - for second-trimester abortions.
WA surrogacy bill raises serious concern
13/11 Australian Christian Lobby Media Release |The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has raised serious concerns about the surrogacy bill introduced into the WA Upper House today, saying it is not in the best interests of children.
ACL West Australian Director Michelle Pearse urged parliamentarians to reject the bill or at least make significant amendments to it.
“ACL has spoken to a number of politicians who are rightly concerned about the implications of surrogacy, especially concerning the welfare of the child,” Mrs Pearse said.
“These concerns include potential legal challenges over the ‘ownership’ of the child; the child having up to five parents including genetic parents, arranged parents, and the birth mother; and the deliberate legislative decision to make a child fatherless in the case of a single woman becoming the arranged parent.
Address by the Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP
To the Australian Christian Lobby National Conference -
(8th November 2008)
At the outset I think it’s worth reflecting on the very good advice Jesus gave to politicians in the Sermon on the Mount, it’s very appropriate for an occasion like this: “Be careful not to parade your uprightness in public to attract attention, otherwise you will lose all reward from your Father in heaven.” And Jesus gave even better counsel for the public that politicians see to represent and persuade to their point of view. “Beware of false prophets who come to you disguised as sheep but underneath are ravenous wolves. You will be able to tell them by their fruits.”
And that is a very important text for politicians because ultimately the good we do is judged by the outcome. We demonstrate our values by the deeds we do for you in public life and lives we lead. Not by the virtues we protest that we might have. In other words we should all focus on action and results. And remember too that a lot of great mistakes have been made with the best of intentions. Ultimately we get paid, in every respect, on results.
President Bush Discusses Financial Markets and World Economy
13/11 Whitehouse.gov | President Bush on Thursday said, "We're facing this challenge together and we're going to get through it together. The United States is determined to show the way back to economic growth and prosperity. I know some may question whether America's leadership in the global economy will continue. The world can be confident that it will, because our markets are flexible and we can rebound from setbacks. We saw that resilience in the 1940s, when America pulled itself out of Depression, marshaled a powerful army, and helped save the world from tyranny. We saw that resilience in the 1980s, when Americans overcame gas lines, turned stagflation into strong economic growth, and won the Cold War. We saw that resilience after September the 11th, 2001, when our nation recovered from a brutal attack, revitalized our shaken economy, and rallied the forces of freedom in the great ideological struggle of the 21st century."
PRAYER POINT: Australia-Israel Relations
Parliamentary Prayer Network, Canberra | Pray that Australia and Israel continue to have a relationship that is pleasing in the sight of God, bearing in mind Genesis 12:3. Pray that Australia does not seek the favour of man, but rather the favour of God in its dealings with Israel.
UN vote: Rudd breaks with Howard on Israel
12/11 Phillip Hudson, SMH |AUSTRALIA has switched its position to vote against Israel on two resolutions at the United Nations, ending the Howard government's unswerving alignment with the United States and raising concern from the Jewish community.
The move also signals to the incoming Obama administration that the Rudd Government plans to take a different approach to the Howard government on the international stage. In the weekend vote in New York, Australia supported a resolution calling on Israel to stop establishing settlements in the Palestinian territories and a resolution calling for the Geneva Conventions to apply in the Palestinian territories.
The resolutions on the Middle East peace process are held annually and the Howard government had backed both from 1996 to 2002 but in 2003 began to vote against or abstain. It was a move that aligned Australia with only the US, Israel, the US Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau and Micronesia and put the country at odds with Britain, Canada, New Zealand and France.
Christian Lobby welcomes Federal Opposition support for families
09/11 Australian Christian Lobby Media Release |The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today welcomed the strong personal support for families expressed by Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull in his keynote address to the ACL National Conference in Canberra.
“The conference welcomed Mr Turnbull’s personal passion for families, marriage and children, and we look forward to seeing that passion reflected in Coalition policy developed over time under his leadership,” ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said.
In his address to the conference at the ANU’s University House, Mr Turnbull said that there was no doubt that Australia, or any nation, is stronger if people are legally married and if more children are brought up by a father and a mother. He said that whether you look at it from a social, a spiritual, a cultural or a “hard-headed” economic point of view, we all need strong families. Mr Turnbull added that the Coalition has a passionate commitment to the family and the promotion of the family.
PRAYER POINT: Australia-Indonesia Relations
Parliamentary Prayer Network, Canberra | Pray firstly, that God would show his mercy to those three Balinese destined for execution; that they and their families could meet with Christ in these hours.
Pray also that better relations between our two countries would prevail at this time.
Lord’s Prayer survives attacks
01/11 Australian Christian Lobby Newsletter |
The place of the Lord’s Prayer at the start of Federal parliamentary proceedings each day seems secure following strong support for it from Australia’s two main political leaders.
Both Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull emphatically declared their support for the retention of the Lord’s Prayer earlier this week following a call for a debate over whether it should be axed.
On the weekend, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Harry Jenkins suggested replacing the Lord’s Prayer with an acknowledgement of Australia's traditional Aboriginal owners. The Australian Greens later weighed in by saying they want the prayer replaced with a period of reflection and a conscience vote in both houses on the issue. Please click here and here for details.
Christianity has had a profound impact on shaping Australia’s laws, system of parliamentary democracy and culture, and it is entirely appropriate that we open Parliament with the Lord’s Prayer. We welcome the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader’s commitment to retaining the prayer which is in line with the written commitments their parties gave to the ACL prior to last year’s Federal election. Please click here to read ACL’s media release on the issue put out on Sunday.
PRAYER POINT: Financial Wisdom for the Government
The Federal Government, Reserve Bank, Departments of Finance and Treasury, and their respective advisers, need the wisdom of God at this time in managing the Australian economy and dealing with the international pressures affecting Australia.
Pray for God's knowledge to identify the real issues, God's wisdom to know how to deal with the issues, and courage to carry them out.
GREENS INTRODUCE FRESH BILL TO LEGISLATE EUTHANASIA IN THE TERRITORIES
01/11 Australian Prayer Network Newsletter |
Australia Greens leader Bob Brown has introduced a fresh bill to overturn the ban on the territory governments' right to legalise euthanasia. Senator Brown's bill aims to repeal the commonwealth Euthanasia Laws Act 1997 and thereby allow the Northern Territory and the ACT to make legislation permitting voluntary euthanasia. The new bill amends Senator Brown's earlier euthanasia bill, introduced in February.
A Senate committee delivered a report on the original bill in June with Labor senators saying they would support it with some amendments. "The new opposition leader, Malcolm Turnbull, declared the Liberal Party stood for freedom of choice and respect for the individual,'' Senator Brown said. "The Greens' bill will restore the rights of territory parliaments to assist terminally ill people choose a death with dignity. I hope both Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd will commit to a conscience vote when it comes before parliament.''
Cloning in South Australia
01/11 Australian Christian Lobby Newsletter | South Australia is debating legislation which would permit the cloning and destruction of human embryos for research purposes. This follows the Federal Parliament's decision to legalise cloning in 2006 and similar decisions in state parliaments in 2007 and 2008, which mean cloning is now permitted in most states.
Since the federal decision and most of the state votes, new research has been published showing that other ethical technologies such as the direct reprogramming of cells can achieve what cloning aims to do, without creating and destroying human embryos in the process. It was this research, amongst other factors, which led to the WA Parliament rejected cloning when it considered the matter earlier this year. It remains to be seen whether South Australia will simply fall in line with other states or whether it will follow WA's lead in rejecting cloning in the light of new developments. The legislation has passed its second reading in the lower house by 25 votes to 12 and is currently in the committee stage. It is expected to pass the lower house and be debated in the upper house between 11-13 November, where the vote may be much closer. Please pray that SA politicians would reject this legislation, having been able to understand the complex scientific matters surrounding cloning and to discern that cloning definitely does involve the creation and destruction of human embryos.
NSW Government moves on ‘artistic purpose’ defence
01/11 Australian Christian Lobby Newsletter | As part of a major shake-up of child-protection laws, the NSW Government is moving to do away with the legal defence of ‘artistic purpose’ which has been available to photographers and film-makers. Please click here for details.
ACL welcomes this move, as 'artistic merit' had long been a loophole exploited by the makers of sexually explicit and violent movies and more recently by those photographing naked children in the name of art.
We are also urging NSW Attorney General John Hatzistergos to raise the matter at next month's Standing Committee of Attorneys General (SCAG) meeting. Please click here to read ACL’s media release on the issue.
On a related topic, the Australia Council recently released a summary of submissions to its plans to create protocols governing the depiction of children in art, exhibitions, and publications that receive government funding.
The draft protocols will be circulated for public comment during November 2008, with the finalised protocols expected to apply to grants issued after 1 January 2009. Please click here for more details.
Push to legalise brothels begins again in Tasmania
01/11 Australian Christian Lobby Newsletter | ACL is calling on the Tasmanian Government not to revisit plans to legalise brothels as it undertakes a review of the Sex Industry Offences Bill 2005.
In late 2005, ACL lobbied strongly against the then Government’s plans to decriminalise brothels and helped organise for former sex workers to directly give their personal testimonies to Members of the Legislative Council. Thankfully, the Tasmanian Parliament responded to these testimonies and deep community concern over the issue by throwing out a controversial bill to legalise Tasmanian brothels.
In its place came redrafted legislation which introduced tougher penalties for brothels and increased prosecution powers for police. This legislation is now up for review and there is a renewed push to legalise brothels.
In a media release this week, ACL Tasmanian Director Nick Overton said the reasons for rejecting the bill to legalise brothels in 2005 remain unchanged and that legalising brothels would cause real harm to women on a far greater scale. “The facts remain immutable that this is a trade which ruins lives and healthy relationships in the pursuit of profit,” he said.
Please click here to read the media release.ACL Tasmania will be continuing
to monitor this issue and we will keep you informed of any developments.
Kaden bill moves forward in NT
01/11 Australian Christian Lobby Newsletter | On 26th March 2007, Fiona Peters gave birth to a stillborn son, Kaden Redriff. Despite his being fully formed, current NT law denies any official recognition of Kaden’s existence. In a move which further worsened his parents’ grief and complicated funeral arrangements, he was not granted either an official birth certificate or an official death certificate because he was only of 17 weeks gestation, not the required 20 weeks.
Since their tragic loss, Kaden's parents have been campaigning for NT law to be changed, to enable an official birth or death certificate to be issued to a stillborn child of less than 20 weeks gestation if the parents request this. The 'Kaden bill', championed by NT Opposition Leader Terry Mills, reached a new milestone this week when he asked for an inquiry into the legislative arrangements needed to register miscarried births of less than 20 weeks gestation. ()
A petition in support of the bill gathered 2959 signatures and was due to be tabled in the NT Legislative Assembly this week. Further information about the Kaden bill is available here
Education revolution to turn back the clock
01/11 Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun Columnist | JULIA Gillard isn't leading the revolution you'd expect from an ex-boss of the militant Socialist Forum.
Her "education revolution" turns out to be not the clenched-fist kind, but more the revolving one.
Gillard, both Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister, is in fact turning us back, at least in part, to where we were before education experts went mad with ideology.
She is now restoring some "three-Rs" conservative basics that should never have been ditched.
No wonder madder Labor MPs are aghast. Julia Irwin, for instance, blasted Gillard's reforms last week as a "so-called education revolution", demanding she do the traditional Labor thing instead of robbing private schools to pay state ones.
The Australian Council of State School Organisations even damned her for pushing a "half-baked idea dreamt up by bureaucrats and a handful of neo-conservative newspaper columnists".
Lord's Prayer - Joint Media Release from the Leader of the Opposition and the Leader of the Nationals
The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP & The Hon Warren Truss MP
Opening the Australian Parliament each day with the Lord’s Prayer is an important reminder of our shared humanity and a reference to the words of our Constitution when ‘humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God’ we established the Commonwealth of Australia over 100 years ago.
Media reports today that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is seeking to remove the Lord’s Prayer from the daily programme is the first time this matter has been raised with the Opposition.
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Mark McArdle MP
ACL assesses Rudd’s first year
BP goes Beyond Porn
of much art, fashion and music. It entertains us, enthralls us and mystifies us. Because its such a fundamental need of human beings, it conditions much of our behaviour. And then politicians go and legislate that behaviour.
Speech to Senate – Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration
President Bush Discusses Financial Markets and World Economy 
UN vote: Rudd breaks with Howard on Israel
Education revolution to turn back the clock