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For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 9 June 2013. Listeners may remember wheelchair-bound quadriplegic Christopher Reeve coming to Australia in 2003 to promote the legalisation of therapeutic cloning. He said it was absolutely necessary, and patients would die needlessly if humans were not cloned in the lab to extract embryonic stem cells for therapeutic purposes. Dissenters … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 9 June 2013. A subtle shift in rainfall can be devastating in a country like Malawi where 80 per cent of the population subsists on rain-fed agriculture. The rains used to come by mid-October and fall steadily until March. These days the rains often don’t come until December. Sometimes it … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 9 June 2013. Queensland family doctor David van Gend is one of those people either loved or loathed, depending on your view of religion and morality. He has often been in the media spotlight as President of the Australian Marriage Forum, defending natural marriage against alternatives. This week he published … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 9 June 2013. One of the best ways to learn about God and God’s ways is to hear Bible stories retold – and there’s no better opportunity for that than as children. Two hundred years ago this month, Mr Thomas Hassall began Australia’s first Sunday School in the house of … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 June 2013. The abolition of the federal government’s Baby Bonus has led thoughtful people to reflect on why it was good (while it lasted) to provide financial assistance to encourage a higher birth rate among Australians. One of those is Greg Melleuish, Professor of History and Politics at the … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 June 2013. Following the horrific hacking death of British soldier Lee Rigby by two alleged Islamic extremists, British Prime Minister David Cameron said, “There is nothing in Islam that justifies this truly dreadful act.” But as US political commentator Cal Thomas pointed out in The Chicago Tribune this week, … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 June 2013. In his keynote address to the World Congress of Families held in Sydney last week, former deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. John Anderson, claimed that the traditional family unit was in serious decline, and lamented the lack of reasoned public debate informed by belief in absolute truth … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 2 June 2013. In what is rumoured to be an outcome of a memorandum of understanding between the Coalition and Clubs NSW signed before the last election, the NSW Government is quietly amending the Gaming Machines Act 2001 to allow small clubs with a maximum of 33 gaming machines to … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 26 May 2013. Last week Sydney hosted the seventh World Congress on Families, culminating in the launch of a Declaration upholding the “natural family” as “the basic unit on which human societies are built and … the best environment for the moral, social and emotional development of children.” The Declaration … Continue reading
For broadcast on 2CH Sydney, 26 May 2013. It is rather ironic that former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who identifies as a conscientious Christian, came out this week in support of same sex marriage laws, while current Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who claims to be an atheist and lives with her boyfriend, continues to support … Continue reading
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