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For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 6 Apr 2014. A study of interactive gambling, commissioned by Gambling Research Australia, has found that promotional offers, such as free bets, led punters to place bets they would otherwise not have made. Writing in The Age, Richard Willingham notes that punters feared that losing a promotional bet would lead … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 6 Apr 2014. Last week, the report of a Senate inquiry into Australia’s overseas aid and development assistance program recommended that Australia’s target of 0.5 per cent of gross national income be met by the year 2025. Both Labor and the Coalition had pledged to meet this target by 2015. … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 Mar 2014. Wednesday was a sad day for people at risk of gambling addiction, their families, and those who worked so hard to secure poker machine reforms under the former Gillard Labor government. On Wednesday, the Senate passed a bill effectively wiping out the modest reforms aimed at harm … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 Mar 2014. New research from the University of South Australia and Curtin University shows the true extent of damage to victims of domestic violence, which does not end when a victim escapes the relationship. The study of 175 women in all Australian States and Territories found that: more than … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 Mar 2014. Former Fairfax editorial director and managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Mark Scott, challenged Christians this week to “get over” regular public criticism of their faith, and avoid being trapped in a Christian “echo chamber” where they select media experiences that reinforce their pre-existing worldview and … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 30 Mar 2014. This week federal Senator George Brandis claimed that people had a right to bigotry – that is, to be so “convinced of the rightness of a particular creed, opinion or practice” as to be intolerant of the beliefs or actions of others. Senator Brandis was defending the right … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 23 March 2014 The Catholic Bishop of Parrramatta, the Most Reverend Anthony Fisher, has written to Members of the NSW Legislative Council, urging them to support the Crimes Amendment (Zoe’s Law) Bill (No. 2) 2013. Named for Zoe, the child of Brodie Donegan and Nick Ball, who was killed at … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 23 March 2014 A five-year study in 20 rural and regional NSW towns has found that community action and education campaigns, without support from legislation, fail to curb binge drinking, assaults and serious alcohol-related harm. The study, published in PLOS Medicine, found that mmeasures (including education programs in schools, media campaigns, … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 23 March 2014 An unlikely coalition joined forces this week to fight global slavery and human trafficking. Catholic journal The Tablet reports that Members of the Global Freedom Network, launched by Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Grand Imam of Cairo’s Al Azhar University, Dr Mahmoud … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 23 March 2014 Recently Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Christianity, Dr Justine Toh, participated in an IQ debate in Melbourne, on the motion, “Faith-based religious education has no place in public schools.” She says those who want to remove faith-based religious education from schools often want it replaced by General … Continue reading
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