Perspectives

View Jack Sonneman's Canberra Itinerary

Sunday morning, July 22
Speaking at the Oasis Community Church, at 10 am, meeting at the Lyons Primary School in Lyons on Taraleah St.

For Information on other meetings, in the campaign to protect all children from porn, visit the Australian Federation for the Family website

Jack Sonneman to Canberra to Combat Pornography

Jack will be in Canberra from the 18 th July and plans to be there for 3 Sundays to speak in church services where he will provide documentation linking pornography with sexual violence. Read

Media Release: Suffer the Little Children

AT LAST, it is on the record: Pornography is a significant factor in the violence and anarchy in indigenous communities.

Alcohol and drugs are well accepted as causing rampant dysfunction in places already beaten down by dispossession, disempowerment, unemployment, ill health and poor education. But the trauma caused by the invasion of pornography has not been properly acknowledged. Read

Action Website: Say NO TO X

The Australian Christian Lobby have created a special section of their "Make a Stand website to make it easier for you to email your Pollies ... Add your name to a petition ... Send a letter to the Editor and Get more information .... Link to External Website

Media Release: Family Planning Queensland

Family Planning Queensland (FPQ), which runs a child sexual assault counselling service in Far North Queensland, has followed the public discussion on the Commonwealth's response to child abuse in NT indigenous communities with interest. The high prevalence of child sexual abuse in some indigenous communities is also evident in non-indigenous communities with similar social problems and lack of services. This is not a reason not to support indigenous communities, but points to the need for responses that targets all child sexual abuse.
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Prime Minister John Howard bans X Rated, hardcore pornography in Aboriginal communities

Please contact Prime Minister John Howard, Aboriginal Affairs Minister Mal Brough and Attorney General Philip Ruddock, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600 and thank them for taking this courageous stand in the Aboriginal communities. Read

Fathers & Aboriginal Child Sexual Abuse

John Howard has taken on a big issue in a big, bold way. The plight of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory has been crying out for action and the PM has acted. Gradually, every state and territory has fallen into line and Kevin Rudd has joined with his support. Read

Action on NT Porn is Great: but Pornberra is where the cancer is

The Fatherhood Foundation and the delegates that attended the bipartisan Sexual Integrity Forum, www.sif.org.au, held in August 2005 would like to congratulate the Prime Minister, Mr. Howard, on his action to deal with the ongoing sexual abuse of women and children in Northern Territory's Indigenous communities. The horrific revelation by the 'Little Children are Sacred' report and dozens like it released over the last two decades confirms that the time to take action is long overdue. Read

John Anderson on Pornography

"... Mr Anderson said yesterday that restricting X-rated material was a vital step in arresting the devastating cycles of violence and degradation in vulnerable black and white homes.

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Joint Press Conference with the Hon Mal Brough, Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Canberra
22 June 2007 / Subject: Indigenous emergency

Anybody who's read or examined the report prepared by Pat Anderson and Rex Wild entitled Little Children Are Sacred will be sickened and horrified by the level of abuse. They will be deeply disturbed at the widespread nature of that abuse and they will be looking for the responsible assumption of authority by a government to deal with the problem. Read

REPORT ON NATIONAL SOLEMN ASSEMBLY H - CANBERRA (Australia)

Held on 9th - 11th MARCH 2007

... In what is thought to have been Australia’s first ever National Solemn Assembly some 1,500 people representing every State and Territory in Australia, a wide spread of Christian denominations, and a cross section of all ages, attended this 3 day gathering in our National Capital.

... Session 3 on the fi rst day dealt with the contentious issue of Sexual Immorality. Noel & Barbara Bell former leaders of Intercessors for Australia led this session which dealt with the sins of homosexuality, adultery, fornication, pornography and sexual abuse.

External Link to PDF

Did you know?

1 in 4 Year 10 students have had sex
1 in 2 Year 12 students have had sex
1 in 4 sexually active students report unwanted sex

1 in 4 sexually active students were drunk or high during their last sexual encounter

90 per cent of sexually active young women who do not wish to conceive use contraception

SOURCE: Smith A. Agius P. Dyson S. Mitchell A. and Pitts M. ‘2002: Results of the 3rd National Survey of Australian secondary students, HIV/AIDS and sexual health,’ La Trobe University, Melbourne 2003.

Excerpted from the Family Planning Queensland Website - July 2007