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#1132 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 27 Sep 2015 NSW Premier Mike Baird told an audience of over 700 people last week that he opposes alcohol advertising appearing on the uniform of Australia’s cricket team. Baird was speaking at a fundraising event for the Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation, named in memory of 18-year-old Thomas Kelly, who … Continue reading
#1131 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 27 Sep 2015 In NSW, Special Religious Education, also known simply as “Scripture,” is available to all and mandatory for no one. There seems no good reason to have it banned, as certain lobby groups would like. In April this year the NSW Department of Education released a framework … Continue reading
#1130 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 27 Sep 2015 Australians are right to support the federal government’s decision to accept 12,000 Syrian refugees in a one-off increase to the normal humanitarian intake of 13,700 people. Among the many issues raised by this decision are where to settle so many new arrivals, and how to manage … Continue reading
#1129 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 20 September 2015. Since the late 1980s, universities have proliferated in Australia, including religious-based institutions. There is the Australian Catholic University, and the Melbourne-based University of Divinity, of which I am a PhD student. Now there are well advanced plans for a Protestant university, with Sydney-based Excelsior College bidding … Continue reading
#1128 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 20 September 2015. A chief aim of the parent-driven lobby group, Fairness in Religion in Schools is to abolish the practice of volunteer-run Special Religious Education in NSW schools. In recent months, the group has appeared so anti-Christian that disclaimers on their website and social media state they are not … Continue reading
#1127 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 20 September 2015. The refusal by Kentucky clerk Kim Davis to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples in defiance of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favour of same sex marriage, for which she spent six days in jail, has ignited enormous interest, including that of prominent Baptist … Continue reading
#1126 for broadcast on 2CH, 13 September 2015 Australian Baptists have joined other Christian churches in welcoming the Abbott government’s initial response to the Syrian refugee crisis. Australian Baptist Ministries National Director, the Reverend Keith Jobberns, and Executive Director of Baptist Care Australia, Ms Carolyn Kelshaw, urged the government to go further, providing additional financial aid … Continue reading
#1125 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 13 September 2015 Sydney’s Catholic Archbishop, the Most Rev Anthony Fisher, says the Abbott government’s decision to take an additional 12,000 refugees from Syria is “a good one and the right one.” Archbishop Fisher said Islamic State had stated their goal was to wipe out all Christians in that … Continue reading
#1124 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 13 September 2015 In their public communications on the Syrian conflict and the resulting refugee crisis, church leaders should not back away from naming the specific evil, and the specific primary victims. I welcome the statements released by Archbishop Anthony Fisher and Archbishop Glenn Davies this week. Dr Davies … Continue reading
#1123 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 September 2015. Speaking from Alaska on Monday, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the world had reached a fork in the road on climate change, and, while he welcomed debate on mitigation strategies, the science on global warming is settled and the time to act is now. Mr Obama said we … Continue reading
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