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#1077 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 24 May 2015 No doubt you’re aware of the ongoing terrorist threat posed by young Australians who are radicalised by extremist Islamist propaganda, and find their way to Syria and Iraq where they fight alongside ISIS forces. Now it’s been revealed that the federal government is in contact with … Continue reading
#1076 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 24 May 2015 Earlier this year, Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana sparked a media storm, telling journalists that “you are born to a mother and a father, or at least that’s how it should be.” They described babies in same sex couple families, born via IVF … Continue reading
#1075 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 17 May 2015 There’s been a strong reaction to moves by the NSW Department of Education to ban three books by prominent Sydney Anglicans used in Special Religious Education (SRE). The proposed ban was prompted by a lobby group, Fairness in Religion in Schools, which appears to want SRE … Continue reading
#1074 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 17 May 2015 This week’s $1 billion budget cut to foreign aid is still less than half of the $2.5 billion diesel subsidy the Abbott government gifts the mining industry each year. One would have thought saving the lives of the poorest people on earth was a higher priority … Continue reading
#1073 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 17 May 2015 The sweeteners in the childcare package in this week’s federal budget may have been overshadowed by concerns over proposed cuts to the government’s paid parental leave scheme, but there is no financial incentive for mums and dads who choose to do their own childcare work, voluntarily … Continue reading
#1072 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 10 May 2015. Australians are known as a nation of drinkers. From the public delight in Prime Ministerial beer swilling to the private disgrace of the solitary alcoholic, our love affair with alcohol runs deep. But according to new research from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian alcohol consumption … Continue reading
#1071 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 10 May 2015. If “all publicity is good publicity,” then the backlash against the SBS television program Struggle Street, which first aired on Wednesday night, will be music to the multicultural ears of SBS management. Struggle Street depicts the lives of residents in the western Sydney suburb of Mt Druitt, … Continue reading
#1070 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 10 May 2015. Dr David Sandifer is the NSW Director of Family Voice Australia, the lobby group previously known as the Festival of Light, associated with the Reverend Fred Nile. In his latest newsletter, Dr Sandifer quotes from Philippians 4:8 in the Bible (“whatever is true, honourable, just, pure, … Continue reading
#1069 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 3 May 2015. Commenting on the NSW government’s release of a detailed response to a recent Legislative Council inquiry into the impact of gambling, the President of the NSW Council of Churches says proposed reforms do not go far enough in addressing public health concerns. The Reverend Dr Ross Clifford … Continue reading
#1068 for broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 3 May 2015 Senior research fellow at the Australian Catholic University, Dr Kevin Donnelly, writing in The Weekend Australian, observes that millions across the world are denied rights we take for granted because our common law is founded on Christian principles. While our Constitution states that the Commonwealth “shall not make … Continue reading
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