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Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 3 Feb 2013. Catholic ethicist Nicholas Tonti-Filippini struck a blow for freedom of speech this week in an article published in The Sydney Morning Herald, arguing that the legal enforcement of “polite conduct” is excessive and intrusive. He said: In a polite society, that one might cause offence is a reason … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 3 Feb 2013. One of the aims of the Gillard Government, now in election mode, is to consolidate the various anti-discrimination laws into a single Act of Parliament, and in so doing tweak or transform aspects of current laws that do not accord with the government’s ideological agenda. One area of … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 3 Feb 2013. One year ago, U.S. President Barack Obama made his third appearance at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., startling some veteran pundits by pointing out that the challenges his nation faced required strong values as much as smart policies, and linking his economic and foreign policies to … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, Sunday 27 Jan 2013. The mainstream media have largely ignored it, and the Department of Education has fobbed off enquiries, but the NSW “Proud Schools” program appears to misrepresent the clear teaching of the Bible on homosexuality, accuses Christians of inciting “homophobia,” and represents a waste of taxpayer money which could … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, Sunday 27 Jan 2013. The great American civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King, who would have turned 84 this month, once said: “People often hate each other because they fear each other, they fear each other because they don’t know each other, they don’t know each other because they cannot communicate, … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH, Sunday 27 Jan 2013. A recent study has found that encouraging people to adopt ecologically sustainable behaviours based on the moral rather than economic case may be more effective. The Guardian newspaper reports that in an experiment conducted at a Dutch petrol station, researchers compared two messages aimed at persuading people to … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH, Sunday 27 Jan 2013. Support for voluntary euthanasia often stems from a misunderstanding of exactly what euthanasia is. Many people think that present laws allow patients to be kept alive indefinitely by medical intervention and that suffering can be artificially prolonged. But turning off a life support system is not euthanasia; nor … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 20 Jan 2013. As former Australian Prime Minister John Howard lectures Americans on why and how they should go about reducing the availability of semiautomatic assault weapons, based on what he did to curb gun violence following the horrific Port Arthur massacre 17 years ago, research shows that Australians own as … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 20 Jan 2013. While the European Court of Human Rights this week upheld the right of workers to wear religious symbols, after a British Airways check-in clerk was sent home because the small cross she was wearing contravened the airline’s uniform policy, a different storm is brewing in Australia over the … Continue reading
Broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 20 Jan 2013 The Anglican Alliance has called on the United Nations to give faith communities a bigger voice in the fight against world poverty. The call comes in the Alliance’s response to the consultation by a high level panel established by the UN to identify new priorities for the world’s … Continue reading
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