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One in a hundred years: Prince

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSBy David JamesJune 4, 2020

by David James Prince was surely the most total musician and performer of the last 100 years. He did everything. On his first album he played all 23 instruments, performed all the vocals and wrote all the songs. He was prolific as a songwriter, penning pieces for many other singers. He was a stunning dancer…

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MacStuttles Adventure Safaris WA (registerd trademark)

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSBy Pat MacStuttles, TheoboganJune 4, 2020

ADVER-BORIAL TOURS OF THE HERMIT STATE NOW AVAILABLE At the wall, the military convoy picks you up at the DMZ, Sand n Burg(er) gate. Keep your wits about you, you’re in Western Australia now, on the adventure tour of your life! After we clear the razor wire, minefields and anti-aircraft batteries, is our first stop.…

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Works in view to lower spillway of defective Paradise Dam

RURAL AFFAIRSBy Michael OrdJune 4, 2020

by Michael Ord A Building Queensland report into the troubled Paradise Dam has been before the Queensland state cabinet as Bundaberg region farmers appeal for a delay in plans to reduce the dam’s spillway level by five metres before the 2020-21 wet season over safety concerns. The dam was constructed between 2003 and 2005 under…

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The other Santamaria brother: Dr Joe

SPECIAL FEATUREBy Jeffry BabbJune 4, 2020

by Jeffry Babb Dr Joe Santamaria was an Australian of migrant background. For millennia people had eked out a precarious existence on the margins of the Mediterranean Sea, sustained by fishing, the olive tree, the grape vine and the goat. In the late 19th century, people began to emigrate. Many on the margins were islanders,…

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‘The hours have lost their clock’

POLITICSBy Brian J. ComanJune 4, 2020

by Brian Coman A REFLECTION ON THE MODERN POLITICAL ORDER IN THE WEST PART TWO OF TWO PARTS (You can read Part One here) In the first part of this extended essay, I proposed that a fully secular state could survive in the long term only if it had access to some objective notion of…

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A light for life: WA’s Lifehouse

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Warwick D'SilvaJune 4, 2020

In May a new outreach centre for women on the streets opened in East Perth. AFA WA president Warwick D’Silva spoke to one of the organisers, Johanna Banks, about what the Lifehouse is and how it will help women living on the streets. WHAT IS THE LIFEHOUSE? The Lifehouse is a drop-in centre for homeless…

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What’s up with conservatism?

POLITICSBy a News Weekly contributorJune 4, 2020

by Bradley McManus The aims of the conservative movement are going unfulfilled. But, why? It certainly isn’t due to Labor governments. Recent political history shows that the Liberal/National Coalition has won considerable victories: from the election of John Howard’s government to that of Scott Morrison. Howard dominated the late 1990s and early 2000s. The historic…

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Doctor deprived of right to practise for his views

HEALTH & EDUCATIONBy Terri M. KelleherJune 4, 2020

by Terri M. Kelleher Dr Jereth Kok, a young Melbourne GP, has been deprived of his right to practise since August 2019. He had practised for 16 years before he was suspended from practice indefinitely by the Medical Board because of views he had expressed online over a decade on various social matters. His appeal…

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Doctor deprived of right to practise for his views

By Terri M. KelleherJune 4, 2020
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Should churches be the first to reopen?

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Inquiries needed into major covid19 outbreaks

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‘Coronaschooling’

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The ridiculous attack on reason

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Doctors of WHO let the covid19 dogs out

By Peter WestmoreMay 7, 2020
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Should churches be the first to reopen?
June 3, 2020
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June 3, 2020
Cardinal Pell
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May 27, 2020
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May 7, 2020
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April 29, 2020
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Green ‘charities’ continue to undermine development

May 29, 2020
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Political promises on the Never Never never never work well for the nation

May 28, 2020
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Pandemic has exposed our overreliance on imports

May 7, 2020
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The oil cartel: The lesson for other industries from OEC

May 6, 2020
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Victoria lifts moratorium on gas exploration

April 29, 2020
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Where’s the evidence for man-made global warming?

April 16, 2020
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LIFE (bioethics), MARRIAGE & FAMILY

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A light for life: WA’s Lifehouse

June 4, 2020

In May a new outreach centre for women on the streets opened in East Perth. AFA WA president Warwick D’Silva…

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Woman is … the answer to a question

June 3, 2020

by Anne Lastman In the News Weekly of April 18, 2020, Terri Kelleher asked, “Do we really need to ask…

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‘Coronaschooling’

May 27, 2020

by Staff Writer My own homeschooling journey began a quarter of a century ago. I was a young mum, with…

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Dismantling myths around family tax benefits

May 7, 2020

by Staff Writer Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of a stimulus package of $750 for eligible Australians has been met…

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Who let the kids out? The stay-at-home parent and covid19

May 6, 2020

Covid19 has shown us that we are running low on ‘social capital’ by Staff Writer Among memes, elbow bumping and…

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The very young can still be ‘taken care of’ during the covid19 outbreak

April 29, 2020

As the covid19 pandemic cripples the world economy and causes unprecedented social dislocation and disruption, opportunistic bureaucrats and politicians are…

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Victorian Road Map smooths way of NZ anti-life clique to abortion ‘reform’

April 29, 2020

by Bernard Moran New Zealand’s Parliament by 68 votes to 51, on the night of March 18, passed a replica…

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Move to curtail underage online porn epidemic

April 29, 2020

by Chris McCormack Federal inquiry has recommended age verification to access online porn 44 per cent of 9–16 year olds…

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Age does not dim the memory of such loss

April 29, 2020

by Anne Lastman Recently Pope Francis called on the Church “to care for the elderly, going to them with a…

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LIFE ISSUES Pro-lifers punished for exposing baby harvesting

January 25, 2020

  California Court orders investigative journalists exposing aborted-baby trade to pay $US2.3 million Judge linked to Planned Parenthood repeatedly suppressed…

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REFLECTION Conjugal honour: Love of husband and wife joined together in pure intimacy

January 25, 2020

Contemporary society seems to have lost the understanding and the meaning of conjugal honour or even the will or knowledge…

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LIFE AND FAMILY On the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, how are we doing?

December 14, 2019

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). The anniversary was marked…

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Royal Commission wilfully ignored Pell evidence

June 4, 2020

by Peter Westmore A careful examination of the “findings” of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which accused Cardinal George Pell of covering up sexual abuse when he was a priest in Ballarat, and when an Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, shows that the Royal Commission wilfully ignored the overwhelming weight of…

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ABS makes employment figures bend over backwards

June 3, 2020

by Marcus L’Estrange April’s Australian Bureau of Statistics “Labour Force” unemployment figures of 6.2 per cent must be taken with a massive grain of salt. They are merely a political definition of unemployment, not an actuarial one. How the ABS can claim an unemployment number of 823,000 for April when you have 1.6 million on…

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Royal Commission Denies Principle of Fairness to Cardinal Pell

May 29, 2020

by Peter Westmore Findings by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that Cardinal George Pell covered up allegations of child abuse in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s are totally unsupported by the evidence, and constitute an abuse of power by the Commission. They could more accurately be described as accusations. Nevertheless,…

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Cardinal Pell

Cardinal Pell: The story of a targeted assassination

May 27, 2020

by Patrick Morgan The pile-on against Cardinal Pell, which began when he was appointed Archbishop of Melbourne in 1996, has now dragged its weary way through a quarter of a century. It first manifested itself as an internal insurrection when some local liberal Catholics began to object to his alleged personal style as bullying and……

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Crucial to get Virgin Australia flying again

May 27, 2020

by Peter Westmore When Virgin Australia’s board put the company into administration in April, it had the unenviable distinction of being the largest corporate victim of the covid19 pandemic in Australia. The immediate impact will be felt by Virgin’s 10,000 employees, including subsidiary Tigerair, and many could lose their jobs. But the employment impact will…

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INDUSTRY POLICY: The rise and fall of Australian manufacturing and covid19

May 7, 2020

by Geoff Crittenden Australia had a long, proud history of manufacturing throughout the 20th century. With the Federation of Australia in 1901, customs barriers were eliminated between the states so they could more easily trade with another. This prompted the first wave of manufacturing expansion, particularly in Victoria and New South Wales. By 1913, manufacturing…

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Beijing move threatens Hong Kong’s freedoms and rule of law

June 4, 2020

by Peter Westmore The action by the Chinese Communist Party to ram through a resolution at the rubber-stamp National People’s Congress, authorising the Standing Committee of the CCP to propose a law to “prevent, stop and punish” acts of secession, subversion and terrorism in Hong Kong, as well as a law criminalising any action that…

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Taiwan an island of sanity in a sea of contagion

June 3, 2020

by Jeffry Babb For years, epidemiologists have been warning that the world was overdue for an outbreak of disease that would rival Spanish Flu, which killed millions after World War I. The intermingling of animals and humans has inevitably introduced novel diseases into the human population. China’s so-called “wet markets”, where wild animals are sold…

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Alarm bell is ringing loud on China’s trade threats

June 3, 2020

by George Christensen MP Alarm bells rang throughout Canberra and Australian industry in late April, when Communist China’s Ambassador to Australia, Jingye Cheng, raised the spectre of a Chinese boycott of Australian exports. More alarm bells sounded when de facto trade embargoes were launched by China against our barley and beef exports. Sadly, some of…

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The China bear in the global living room

May 27, 2020

by Kevin Andrews MP It can be surprising how fast events that greatly change perceptions can occur. Take the attitude to China. For years, many in the West had assumed that the Middle Kingdom would liberalise politically as international trade increased. As the Economist wrote: “Western leaders believed that giving China a stake in institutions…

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Politics done by stealth in the UN: China and the WHO

May 7, 2020

by Jeffry Babb The United Nations (UN) is not intended to be about realpolitik, but about international cooperation. Many Australians have always had a soft spot for the UN. We are reminded of Labor leader Herbert Vere “Doc” Evatt (1894-1965) and his role in the formation of the UN, so that small and medium powers…

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Doctors of WHO let the covid19 dogs out

May 7, 2020

by Peter Westmore The scandalous action of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to put the interests of China ahead of its obligation to protect the world’s people from the epidemic that originated in Wuhan, China, has not yet been properly documented. Yet an analysis of the factual information now available shows a failure of monumental……

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Technology Roadmap will put us on a road to nowhere

ECONOMICS, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYBy Chris McCormackJune 4, 2020

by Chris McCormack Technology Investment Roadmap prioritises emissions reduction First goal is to reduce hydrogen production costs to $2 a kilogram Priority should be to lower power costs, not speculate on technology With low-cost, reliable energy the key to Australian manufacturing reversing the economic damage inflicted by the forced covid19 shutdown, will the Federal Government’s…

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Breaking the shackles of deep globalisation

ECONOMICSBy Colin TeeseJune 3, 2020

by Colin Teese The experiment of globalisation, and the policies that sustain it, are pretty much stressed out. This marks the second failure of globalisation. The first, in the late 19th century, also failed. Yet, despite its earlier failure, globalisation did make a comeback. In the year 2000, U.S. think tank the Centre for Economic…

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Reversing a bad trend

ECONOMICSBy Chris McCormackMay 29, 2020

by Chris McCormack Melbourne clothing maker diversifies to produce essential PPE Government procurements total 15 per cent of GDP “Buy Australian First” procurement policy would reinvigorate local manufacturing Amid the economic Armageddon due to the covid19 lockdown, a ray of hope has emerged for one Australian manufacturer. Fella Hamilton, named after its female founder in…

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Why success has eluded our automotive industry

COVER STORY, ECONOMICS, News WeeklyBy Craig MilneMay 28, 2020

by Craig Milne Import regulation was needed to facilitate the growth of Australian manufacturing after Federation because Australia was, and is, a nation of high incomes. This has always meant that, aside from a few naturally favoured activities such as grazing, farming and mining, doing anything in Australia costs more than doing it elsewhere. A…

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Looking back for the purposes of going forward

ECONOMICSBy Colin TeeseMay 27, 2020

by Colin Teese For those Australians hoping for forward-looking, enlightened government economic programs to take us beyond covid19, the signs are not promising. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and it would seem most of his cabinet, are looking backwards for inspiration as they struggle to develop policies for how economic Australia might look a year or…

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Crucial to get Virgin Australia flying again

ECONOMICS, NATIONAL AFFAIRSBy Peter WestmoreMay 27, 2020Leave a comment

by Peter Westmore When Virgin Australia’s board put the company into administration in April, it had the unenviable distinction of being the largest corporate victim of the covid19 pandemic in Australia. The immediate impact will be felt by Virgin’s 10,000 employees, including subsidiary Tigerair, and many could lose their jobs. But the employment impact will……

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Covid19: Knowns, unknowns and unknown unknowns

COVER STORY, National Civic Council, News WeeklyBy Patrick J. ByrneJune 4, 2020

by Patrick J. Byrne Covid19 (or SARS-CoV-2) is a new coronavirus related to the common cold that emerged from China in December 2019. It is a separate species of virus from the annual flu virus, or influenza. The Lancet (March 30, 2020) reported an overall infection fatality rate of between approximately 0.4 and 1.4 and…

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by Craig Milne Import regulation was needed to facilitate the growth of Australian manufacturing after Federation because Australia was, and is, a nation of high incomes. This has always meant that, aside from a few naturally favoured activities such as grazing, farming and mining, doing anything in Australia costs more than doing it elsewhere. A……

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Basin inquiry raises more unanswered questions

COVER STORY, ECONOMICS, News Weekly, RURAL AFFAIRSBy Patrick J. ByrneMay 25, 2020

by Patrick J. Byrne The latest Murray-Darling Basin report has highlighted deep discontent among regional communities over the Basin Plan’s water allocations, the science behind the Plan and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA). The report into the “Impact of lower inflows on state shares under the Murray–Darling Basin Agreement” was conducted by the interim inspector-general…

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Gearing up to ditch free-trade policy; it was always a mug’s game

COVER STORY, ECONOMICS, NATIONAL AFFAIRS, News WeeklyBy Craig MilneMay 7, 2020

by Craig Milne THIS IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES BY CRAIG MILNE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY POLICIES FOR THE POST-COVID19 AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY. Amid the difficulties caused by the covid19 pandemic, many Australians are calling for the revival of manufacturing to lessen the nation’s dependence on China. For that to happen, Australia’s governing class…

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Justice at last: Cardinal Pell set free

COVER STORY, NATIONAL AFFAIRS, News Weekly, RELIGIONBy Peter WestmoreApril 29, 2020Leave a comment

by Peter Westmore As News Weekly goes to press, the High Court of Australia has unanimously upheld the appeal by Cardinal George Pell against a majority decision of the Victorian Court of Appeal, reversing a terrible injustice suffered by the Cardinal last year. Cardinal Pell, pictured, had been convicted of sexually abusing two choir boys……

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The world has changed: Now for the new order

COVER STORY, ECONOMICS, News Weekly, POLITICSBy Patrick J. ByrneApril 29, 2020

by Patrick J. Byrne By the time this editorial goes to print, Australia may be under lockdown, with the Government running a command economy as it has in other crises, like World War II. Covid19 spells the end of globalisation as we have known it. The promise of what economist Dani Rodrik calls “deep globalisation”,…

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A light for life: WA’s Lifehouse

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Warwick D'SilvaJune 4, 2020Leave a comment

In May a new outreach centre for women on the streets opened in East Perth. AFA WA president Warwick D’Silva spoke to one of the organisers, Johanna Banks, about what the Lifehouse is and how it will help women living on the streets. WHAT IS THE LIFEHOUSE? The Lifehouse is a drop-in centre for homeless……

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Woman is … the answer to a question

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILY, RELIGIONBy Anne LastmanJune 3, 2020Leave a comment

by Anne Lastman In the News Weekly of April 18, 2020, Terri Kelleher asked, “Do we really need to ask what is a woman?” I’d like to respond to that question. Woman in her design is the secret of God. How prophetic has been the clarion call to women to rise up and give honour……

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‘Coronaschooling’

HEALTH & EDUCATION, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy staff writersMay 27, 2020Leave a comment

by Staff Writer My own homeschooling journey began a quarter of a century ago. I was a young mum, with a gifted first born, a preschooler, a toddler and a newborn. I endured judgement and ridicule, especially from interaction with various nurses as I delivered and established the feeding of baby number four. However, the……

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Dismantling myths around family tax benefits

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy News Weekly staff writersMay 7, 2020Leave a comment

by Staff Writer Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of a stimulus package of $750 for eligible Australians has been met with criticism – most vocal is the cry that “dole bludgers” do not deserve another handout. “What about the people who actually work hard?” “Why give it to people who will spend it on cheap……

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Who let the kids out? The stay-at-home parent and covid19

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy staff writersMay 6, 2020Leave a comment

Covid19 has shown us that we are running low on ‘social capital’ by Staff Writer Among memes, elbow bumping and toilet paper stockpiling, covid19 has led our society to ask: Should we send the kids home from school? The simple answer is “yes”. School closure will most likely decrease the spread of the virus. It……

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The very young can still be ‘taken care of’ during the covid19 outbreak

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy NW ContributorApril 29, 2020Leave a comment

As the covid19 pandemic cripples the world economy and causes unprecedented social dislocation and disruption, opportunistic bureaucrats and politicians are using the crisis to ram through pet policies. Freedoms are being removed; new laws being introduced with little or no debate; and officials make up their own rules imposing them on citizens without any mandate.……

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Victorian Road Map smooths way of NZ anti-life clique to abortion ‘reform’

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bernard MoranApril 29, 2020Leave a comment

by Bernard Moran New Zealand’s Parliament by 68 votes to 51, on the night of March 18, passed a replica of Victoria’s 2008 Abortion Law Reform Act. And, as happened in Victoria, all amendments were voted down. Unknown to the public and most of the NZ media, the proponents of the Abortion Legislation Bill were……

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Move to curtail underage online porn epidemic

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Chris McCormackApril 29, 2020Leave a comment

by Chris McCormack Federal inquiry has recommended age verification to access online porn 44 per cent of 9–16 year olds encountered sexual images in the last month Violence against women, murder and rape linked to pornography The federal inquiry into age verification for online wagering and pornography has released its report, entitled “Protecting the age……

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Age does not dim the memory of such loss

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Anne LastmanApril 29, 2020Leave a comment

by Anne Lastman Recently Pope Francis called on the Church “to care for the elderly, going to them with a smile on your face and the Gospel in your hands”. He noted that the world is facing a significant demographic change, with fewer young people and a large increase in the number of elderly. He……

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REFLECTION Conjugal honour: Love of husband and wife joined together in pure intimacy

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Anne LastmanJanuary 25, 2020

Contemporary society seems to have lost the understanding and the meaning of conjugal honour or even the will or knowledge of how to protect conjugal honour. Why? Perhaps many reasons can be cited for this loss of knowledge but, first, what is “conjugal honour”? My understanding of conjugal honour is that union between husband and……

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LIFE ISSUES Pro-lifers punished for exposing baby harvesting

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Chris McCormackJanuary 25, 2020

  California Court orders investigative journalists exposing aborted-baby trade to pay $US2.3 million Judge linked to Planned Parenthood repeatedly suppressed evidence from defence A California court has found David Daleiden, the head of the Centre for Medical Progress (CMP), and others involved in exposing Planned Parenthood’s organ harvesting of aborted babies in 2015, guilty of……

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LIFE AND FAMILY On the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, how are we doing?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherDecember 14, 2019

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). The anniversary was marked by a three-day conference in Geneva in November. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the CRC in November 1989 and it came into force on September 2, 1990. Australia ratified the Convention in December 1990,……

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COVER STORY Can we put the ‘care’ back into aged care?

COVER STORY, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter Westmore National President of the National Civic CouncilNovember 30, 2019

The Interim Report of the Aged Care Royal Commission, which was released at the end of October, is both an indictment of our society’s treatment of the aged and infirm, and a call to arms to fix the deep deficiencies revealed in the course of the royal commission’s investigations. There have been many complaints about…

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LIFE ISSUES Melbourne and Brisbane on the march

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter KelleherNovember 2, 2019

The annual March for the Babies, held each year close to the anniversary of the passing of the 2008 Victorian abortion law, one of the worst in the Western world, took place this year on October 12. Victoria’s abortion law allows abortion up to the very moment preceding birth, and tramples the conscience rights of…

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LIFE ISSUES To hold the hand … an answer to euthanasia

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Anne LastmanNovember 2, 2019

Because of the lack of respect for life at its genesis, there is now a global push for legalisation of the premature disposal of life at its end: euthanasia and assisted suicide. Photo: Gert Stockmans       Euthanasia simply means an earlier death than would come in the natural course of events. Its proponents would…

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LIFE ISSUES Of foetuses and fallacies

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Sean HaylockNovember 2, 2019

Rarely is the progressive bias of the mainstream media and the major political parties more flagrantly on display than in discussions of “reproductive rights”. On this issue in particular the arguments in favour of more permissive laws are conspicuously thin, amounting to little more than the parroting of a handful of clichés. Anyone who recognises…

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LIFE ISSUES NSW abortion bill: Nothing but danger and death ahead

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Anne LastmanSeptember 7, 2019

As I listen to the debate surrounding the NSW Reproductive Health Care Bill 2019, I am horrified that we are seeing a repeat of the changes in 2008 to the Victorian law and how they were orchestrated by a handful of female politicians who were also able to convince some of their male colleagues that…

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LIFE ISSUES Sloppily drafted NSW abortion bill invites open slather

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherSeptember 7, 2019

Would the New South Wales abortion bill (the Reproductive Health Care Bill 2019) allow a woman’s violent domestic partner to request an abortion for her? Would it allow the father of a girl who is the victim of incest to request that an abortion be performed on her? Would it allow a pedophile to request…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Families keeping the faith: the Benedict and other options

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Allan CarlsonJune 15, 2019

Professor Allan C. Carlson delivered this address at the Saturday evening dinner of the National Civic Council’s 2019 Annual National Conference. The Annual Conference was held in Melbourne over the weekend of February 1–3, 2019. Professor Carlson’s address on that same morning appeared in the March 9, 2019, edition of News Weekly. This address points…

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LIFE ISSUES Families, youth boost crowd at WA Rally for Life

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Warwick D'SilvaJune 15, 2019

On Tuesday May 14 a crowd of over 2,000 from all generations gathered outside Parliament House to mourn the loss of 173, 000 unborn children 21 years since abortion laws were passed in Western Australia. The rally was organised by the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life, which includes the NCC and the AFA.…

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LIFE ISSUES Trump, Shorten and Morrison on abortion

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Andrew LansdownApril 20, 2019

As part of their inexorable push to the extreme left, many Democrats in the United States are now actively supporting late-term abortions and even infanticide. Donald Trump was mocked when he warned about this during the 2016 presidential campaign. Since becoming President, Mr Trump has: (a) cut all American aid to foreign organisations that provide…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Revitalising marriage and family: an especially lay apostolate

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Archbishop Julian PorteousApril 20, 2019

Archbishop of Hobart Julian Porteous delivered the following paper at the National Civic Council’s 2019 Annual National Conference, which was held in Melbourne over the weekend of February 1–3, 2019. Archbishop Porteous recaps the dire state of marriage and family in Australia, both socially and legislatively, and reminds us that reviving these fundamental social institutions…

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LIFE ISSUES ALP abortion policy blithely tramples all our consciences

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Chris McCormackApril 20, 2019

        After the Victorian ALP legalised abortion till birth in 2008, late-term abortions increased by 600 per cent at the Melbourne Royal Women’s Hospital   The ALP treats the killing of a baby in the womb as of no more significance than getting a hip replacement       The Federal ALP’s…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY The end of ‘Liberalism’

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Dr Allan CarlsonMarch 9, 2019

On the Saturday morning of the National Civic Council’s 2019 Annual National Conference, Professor Allan C. Carlson delivered the keynote address. The Annual Conference was held in Melbourne over the weekend of February 1–3, 2019. Professor Carlson’s address on that same evening will appear in the next edition of News Weekly. In that address he…

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FAMILY RELATIONS Dad: a girl’s first and most influential love

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Timothy RarickFebruary 23, 2019

Last September, on a Sunday afternoon, my wife and I were walking through “Speakers Corner” in Hyde Park, London. I was amazed by the number of men who were there passionately trying to convince the masses of people why their ideas were good and true. My wife directed my attention to a man holding a…

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LIFE ISSUES ‘Viability’ argument is wearing a bit thin

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy NW ContributorFebruary 9, 2019

“Tail-docking a dog would be illegal, putting a lobster in boiling water would be illegal, but it will be legal to abort a six-month-old child if this [Andrews Labor, 2008] bill passes.” Mathew Guy MP (2008) For the advocates of abortion on demand for non-medical reasons, or feticide (the intentional and unjust killing of an unborn baby), the issue…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Migration, instability and the erosion of conscience

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Anne LastmanFebruary 9, 2019

The challenge to long-held social norms has been multi-pronged. Movements of the 1960s such as pro-choice, women’s rights feminism began a change in society that has altered our understandings and beliefs. The feminist movement acted with the impossible aim of changing the very nature of woman. Thus we had the abortion-on-demand movement, which began in…

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LIFE ISSUES The unvarnished truth about surrogacy

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Joan SmurthwaiteJanuary 26, 2019

For nearly 40 years Australia has allowed the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART), in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), and embryo transfer (ET) to help heterosexual couples overcome infertility to have their own biologically related child. Around 15 years ago, the demand for children from same-sex couples and from single people led to fertility clinics using third-party…

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LIFE ISSUES Culture of death lands killer blow on Queensland

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Gilbert KeithNovember 3, 2018

On Wednesday October 17, 2018, Queensland became the second Australian state to legalise open-slather abortion and simultaneously remove the conscientious objection of medical practitioners to opt out of referrals for the lethal procedure in an emotional and often personal debate that succeeded 50 votes to 41. Other than a gestational limit two weeks earlier and…

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LIFE ISSUES Truth the first casualty of Victorian bubble-zone law

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Marcus L'EstrangeNovember 3, 2018

At the beginning of 2015, the Victorian ALP Government rightly removed the Coalition’s “move on” laws from the statute book. Rightly so, as the laws were intended really to prevent unions protesting. The laws were seen as an unfair restriction on free speech. At the time, Attorney-General Martin Pakula proclaimed: “Victoria doesn’t need Bjelke-Petersen-style laws…

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LIFE ISSUES Bowing to the goddess of abortion law reform: the pseudo-religion of radical feminism

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Gilbert KeithOctober 6, 2018

In October 2008, the Victorian Parliament passed legislation to remove abortion from the Crimes Act after roughly 40 years of campaigning from militant radical feminists. Reflecting on that legislation, DLP MP Peter Kavanagh remarked: “It’s hard to imagine a worse bill and a worse model, and indeed that’s partly why it was passed here; to…

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LIFE ISSUES Abortion grief: a restoration of honour

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Anne LastmanOctober 6, 2018

  Lord, You have joined an innocent heart to a penitent’s sorrow.” Life of St Aloysius Gonzaga, Office of Readings, June 21 Grief is the human response to the traumatic loss of someone or something very important to the life and wellbeing of the individual. It is the psyche’s attempt at dealing with a separation…

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LIFE ISSUES Queensland law will open floodgates to sex-selective abortion

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Jean SeahSeptember 22, 2018

On Wednesday August 22, yet another abortion bill was tabled in Queensland Parliament. It proposes to allow abortion until 22 weeks of gestation for any reason whatsoever (section 5, Termination of Pregnancy Bill 2018), and abortion after that up to full term if two medical practitioners agree it is necessary for the woman’s “current and…

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LIFE ISSUES Queensland life march busts media stereotypes

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Chris Da SilvaSeptember 22, 2018

There was something markedly different about Brisbane’s second March for Life of 2018 – different from any other pro-life march throughout Australia as far back as a millennial such as this writer can remember. In years gone by, march organisers would be happy to receive any mainstream media coverage whatsoever; if they were so lucky,…

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BOOK EXCERPT From Patrick J. Byrne’s book, Transgender: One Shade of Grey

HEALTH & EDUCATION, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneSeptember 22, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of Patrick J. Byrne’s new book, Transgender: One Shade of Grey. In this excerpt, the author outlines the thesis and aims of the rest of the book. Patrick J. Byrne is national president of the National Civic Council. In 2016, this author commissioned polling to determine what…

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LIFE ISSUES A world of competing sorrows: Ireland’s abortion referendum

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Margaret SomervilleJuly 14, 2018

Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Sydney and was the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University in Toronto, Canada. Professor Somerville reviews the Irish referendum and wonders whether some compromise can be achieved  to save…

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LIFE ISSUES So, is this not pro-life?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Anne LastmanJune 2, 2018

His Holiness Pope Francis has for some years been persecuted unmercifully and called many names and titles (false prophet, anti-Christ) by supposedly “good Catholics”, which should make us all hang our heads in shame. “Our defence of the innocent unborn, for example, needs to be clear, firm and passionate, for at stake is the dignity…

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GENDER POLITICS As Queensland transgenders birth certificates, 300 women quit UK Labour Party

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILY, POLITICSBy Patrick J. ByrneMay 19, 2018

As the Queensland Government moves to allow men to self-identify as women, 300 angry women have quit the British Labour Party over guaranteeing transgender male-to-females on the party’s All-Women Shortlist. UK Labour’s All-Women Shortlist is the equivalent of the Australian Labor Party’s affirmative action policy to having women preselected in 40 per cent of winnable…

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LIFE ISSUES Abortion Rethink Summit: the case for care

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Anne LastmanApril 21, 2018

Recently, over several days in March (17–22), I had the pleasure of attending the Abortion Rethink Summit in Queensland. It promised to be a different but good conference. I was invited to speak first at the conference and later at Brisbane’s Parliament House to politicians on Tuesday March 22. I say it promised to be…

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FAMILY POLITICS A Trojan horse for monitoring children

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherMarch 24, 2018

The Children Legislation Amendment (Sharing of Information) Act amounts to state overreach – big government – and is contrary to the values of freedom and independence of the individual and family from excessive state control. Introduced into the Victorian Parliament only on 13 December, 2017, the last sitting day of the year, the Children Legislation…

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GENDER POLITICS Family Court washes hands of gender-dysphoric kids

HEALTH & EDUCATION, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneJanuary 27, 2018

If minors can decide to have hormone sex transitioning treatments without Family Court approval, are children also capable of making their own decision to become child brides or child soldiers? In a landmark decision on November 30, 2017, a Full Bench of the Family Court ruled that Court approval was no longer needed for young…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Faiths and the global future

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Allan CarlsonOctober 21, 2017

This essay is adapted from an address delivered to an international conference on the family in Manila in March 1999. It first appeared in its present form in The Natural Family (Vol. 30, No. 3, 2017), the journal of the International Organisation for the Family, Religion & Society, of which Allan C. Carlson is editor.…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY The child as weapon in Family Court process

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Amanda SillarsOctober 21, 2017

Next time you hear a parent denigrate or make claims of abuse against an ex-partner with whom they had children and, at one time, a loving relationship, think again. Be careful not always to accept these kinds of stories at face value. Emotionally abusive parents often play the victim; they’re often very believable and good…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY Child-support payments and parental alienation

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Augusto ZimmermannSeptember 9, 2017

Reliable studies indicate that children often adapt better to their parents’ divorce if they are allowed to have a continuing contact with their non-custodial parents. Indeed, a recurring theme in the field of child psychoanalysis is that children of divorced parents often desire to develop a meaningful relationship with their non-custodial parents. Three things should…

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MARRIAGE AND LAW NSW Law Society spruiks for same-sex marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Robin SpeedSeptember 9, 2017

What hope is there for a fair and honest discussion on same-sex marriage when the president of the Law Society of NSW issues a joint press release on the subject that is false and misleading? According to the press release dated August 19, 2017, the legal and medical professions in NSW have united in support…

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MARRIAGE The issue, Bill, is transgender marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter Westmore National President of the National Civic CouncilAugust 26, 2017

Following the failure of the Senate to support a plebiscite on marriage, the Federal Government has announced that it will conduct a national ballot on the issue, conducted by the Bureau of Statistics. Perhaps not surprisingly, those who opposed a plebiscite or referendum on the issue have announced that they will challenge the Government’s decision…

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GENDER POLITICS Melbourne mum goes viral on ‘Safe Schools’

HEALTH & EDUCATION, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Chris McCormackJuly 29, 2017

An Australian mother’s video clip exposing what the “Safe Schools” program is teaching her children has gone viral, while in Britain, schools are being threatened with closure if they don’t teach about gender reassignment. A Melbourne mother’s video has been viewed over 3.5 million times on Facebook and shared over 54,000 times, revealing what her…

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GENDER POLITICS Parliamentary stalemate on same-sex marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILY, POLITICSBy Patrick J. ByrneMarch 11, 2017

After a year-long rainbow alliance campaign for a parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage, the Federal Government’s policy is still for a plebiscite, while Labor has shifted onto other issues. Despite the Senate blocking a people’s vote on the issue late last year, Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed that a plebiscite remains his Government’s policy. Mr Turnbull…

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LIFE ISSUES Abortion trauma link to male suicides

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Julie CookNovember 19, 2016

“I’ve put the gun down now!” were the words of a young man to the pregnancy crisis phone counselor. He had been involved in three abortions and thought himself unaffected until one girl carried to term and delivered. Holding a gun to his head, he phoned a pregnancy crisis centre. With extraordinary good fortune, the…

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LIFE ISSUES Infant viability fails to wake upper house interest

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherJune 18, 2016

The Infant Viability Bill was debated in the Victorian upper house on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. Rachel Carling-Jenkins, left, and Brad Mattes, right. The bill was to provide for holistic care and support, and referral to support and counselling services for women, and that abortion would be prohibited from 24 weeks. Where there was a…

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LIFE ISSUES Who am I? Baby’s first memoir

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Leon VoesenekJune 4, 2016

As News Weekly went to press, Rachel Carling-Jenkins’ Infant Viability Bill was due to be debated in the Victorian Parliament. Leon Voesenek offers a glimpse at who it is all about. My life began in Mum’s Fallopian tube. Here Dad’s sperm and Mum’s egg met and fused resulting in a one-celled being called zygote, with…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Media gush over study only to find same-sex parents more irritable

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Mark RegnerusMay 7, 2016

The social science on same-sex households with children isn’t settled. It’s just plain unsettling. Go to the source. A new study of six-to-17-year-old children of female same-sex households has been rushed to publication and is now making the rounds at the typical outlets, which are proclaiming that now the social science here is truly, genuinely,…

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FAMILY AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Gender symmetry: women can be as abusive as men

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Dr Augusto ZimmermannMay 7, 2016

Domestic violence used by women against men is a phenomenon that has received little attention within the media, academia and the political elite. Despite this lack of attention, for nearly four decades the best research indicates that men are also frequently the targets of domestic violence. And yet, the media and our political/judicial elite often…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY SSCA embeds sexualisation of children in schools

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherApril 23, 2016

The Australian Family Association (AFA) appeared before a hearing of the NSW Committee of Inquiry into the Sexualisation of Children and Young People in Sydney on April 7. To access the AFA submission, go to the parliamentary website. The AFA submitted that the Safe Schools Coalition program (SSCA) is embedding the sexualisation of children and…

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SEX EDUCATION “Gender identity” puts vulnerable kids in danger: Pediatricians

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter Westmore National President of the National Civic CouncilApril 23, 2016

One of the key elements of contemporary sex education, and of the Safe Schools Coalition’s anti-bullying program, is that young people should be encouraged to explore their gender identity, and that schools and society must accept and celebrate “gender diversity”. What do these innocent-sounding words mean? Fundamentally, it means that boys who imagine they want…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY SSCA sets mines to basic building blocks of society

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherApril 9, 2016

The Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) program essentially is a deconstruction of the natural family. Scarleteen: Libertarianism of the body. SSCA deconstructs the family by presenting all forms of sexual relationships – gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender as well as heterosexual – as the same. Students are encouraged to question their sexual orientation and gender identity…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY SSCA apologists try to shrug off media furore

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherMarch 12, 2016

The Safe Schools Coalition Australia (SSCA) program hit the headlines in The Australian newspaper on February 13: “Sexual politics in the classroom”. Where have your kids been surfing today? National Correspondent Natasha Bita reported: “Ostensibly an anti-bullying program, it takes a politically correct approach to sex education. Teachers are told it is “heterosexist” to refer…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Farewell, religious liberty, farewell, conscience

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Augusto ZimmermannFebruary 13, 2016

On December 5, 2015, Dr Augusto Zimmermann, spoke on the topic, “Same-sex marriage and the church of the future” at a conference at the New Life City Church, Kewdale, Western Australia. The following is a slightly abridged version of Dr Zimmermann’s talk. Dr David van Gend believes the process rewards political harassment.   Same-sex marriage…

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LIFE ISSUES Euthanasia: a false start to end-of-life issues

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Lucy SullivanJanuary 30, 2016

Today’s proponents of euthanasia fail to apprehend that the proposal has passed its use-by date. The problem in the practice of medicine that resulted from its increasing power to prolong the life of the intrinsically failed or failing human body has been resolved, and in a manner that incorporates both the traditional ethic that eschews…

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LIFE ISSUES Victoria enacts law based on lies told to Parliament

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John YoungJanuary 30, 2016

The Victorian Parliament has made acts of charity criminal acts. Last November a big majority in both the lower and upper houses voted effectively to end the ability of pro-lifers to offer help to women entering abortion facilities. The Orwellian entitled bill, the Public Health (Safe Access) Amendment Bill, creates 150-metre zones around facilities that…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Swedish daycare part II: problems of weak parenting

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Jonas HimmelstrandDecember 19, 2015

Sweden has youth with poor mental health and poor school results, and stressed parents with weak parenting skills. Why? Is there a causal relationship between the negative outcomes and the introduction of public affordable daycare initiated 40 years ago? If so, there would be every reason to warn other nations contemplating the model until a…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Free speech petition: appeal all ‘right not to be offended’ clauses

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneDecember 19, 2015

After a complaint against the Catholic Archbishop of Hobart was lodged with the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, the Australian Family Association launched a change.org petition to protect freedom of speech. The complaint against Hobart’s Archbishop Julian Porteous and the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) came from Martine Delaney, a transgender activist and Tasmania Greens candidate. Delaney…

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LIFE ISSUES Feminists, conservatives unite against surrogacy

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Madeleine van der LindenDecember 5, 2015

The issues of family planning and same-sex marriage get a lot of attention, both in the media and in political circles. But while airports light up in rainbow colours and people leave Tony Abbott flowers, the people who will truly suffer from the destabilisation of the family do not even have a vote. Most haven’t…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Swedish daycare: paradigm or cautionary tale? Part I

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Jonas HimmelstrandDecember 5, 2015

Sweden is a pioneer in public, tax-subsidised, out-of-home daycare. In 1975, the Swedish government made public daycare available and affordable to all. Daycare expanded greatly during the 1980s and was made even cheaper in 2002 when a maximum fee (maxtaxa) was introduced. No matter how many children, no matter how many hours they spend in…

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LIFE ISSUES Keeping a straight face with Andrew Denton on euthanasia

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Tom MortierNovember 21, 2015

In May 2015 Paul Russell of HOPE, an Australian coalition opposing euthanasia and assisted suicide, invited me to come to Adelaide to speak about my experiences with the Belgian euthanasia law. It is now well known that my physically healthy mother was killed by a lethal injection given by Flemish euthanasia practitioner Dr Wim Distelmans.…

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LIFE ISSUES With Nitschke out of death industry, Exit must go next

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellNovember 21, 2015

The Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency, the Medical Board, moved on October 26 to curtail the suicide advocacy of Dr Philip Nitschke by placing an unprecedented 25 rest­rictions upon his licence to practice medicine. Nitschke in happier days, making his sales pitch. This action is the culmination of a dozen complaints the agency had received,…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Symptoms of a civilisation in crisis

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Kevin AndrewsNovember 7, 2015

Kevin Andrews MP gave the 2015 Warrane Lecture on October 7, 2015. Mr Andrews has been the member for Menzies since 1991 and was a minister in the Howard government, and was, until the recent leadership spill, Minister for Defence in the Abbott government. This is an edited version of his speech. The entire speech…

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LIFE ISSUES Altruistic surrogacy leads to baby trafficking

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneNovember 7, 2015

Poor women in India are being paid to produce children for wealthy Westerners. In some cases, they are impregnated with two human embryos, with the second baby destined for the black market. Family Court Chief Justice Diana Bryant, left, and Federal Circuit Court Chief Judge John Pascoe.   Commissioning couples from the United States and…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Best marriage research backs Church’s teaching

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Jonathan AbbamonteNovember 7, 2015

From individuals, to families, to the general population at large, marriage is essential to society. A committed marriage provides the best arrangement for the wellbeing of both spouses and children. Marriage provides a more stable environment for personal growth and development than any other living arrangement. Indicator after indicator shows that marriage optimises the possibilities for…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Marriage redefinition will feed government business

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Michael OrdOctober 24, 2015

In “Child-support program under the microscope” (News Weekly, October 10), Michael Ord reviewed the submissions to the Commonwealth House of Repre­sentatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs inquiry into the Child Support Program and raised questions about government and stakeholder involvement with separated families. In this second part, he considers the committee’s report,…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Senate committee says no to marriage plebiscite

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherOctober 10, 2015

The Senate committee inquiring into the matter of a popular vote on redefining marriage has come down against allowing the Australian people a say on the matter. Dissenting senators Ian Macdonald and Linda Reynolds The committee recommended in its report tabled on September 15 instead that “a bill to amend the definition of marriage in…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Child-support program under the microscope

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Editorial TeamOctober 10, 2015

The Commonwealth House of Repre­sentatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs recently tabled the report on its inquiry into the Child Support Program (CSP). This article is the first of a two-part review that will consider submissions to the inquiry, the committee response and recommendations, and their ramifications. Michael Ord reports. The aim…

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LIFE ISSUES Assisted suicide and our society of autonomy

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Dominic BurbidgeSeptember 26, 2015

The individualism required by a society of autonomy shuts down love, dependence, and self-sacrifice. To extinguish grief, we are told, we must extinguish the grieving. Economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen On Friday, September 11, the UK’s House of Commons considered and voted down an Assisted Dying Bill. It was its first vote on voluntary euthanasia…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Vulnerable GLBT youth pawns in plebiscite game

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherSeptember 26, 2015

There is no research to show that legalising same-sex marriage would reduce the GLBT suicide rate. It would appear to be based on an ideological assumption rather than on hard evidence. The current Senate Committee inquiry into a popular vote on same-sex marriage has heard stern warnings against holding a plebiscite or popular vote because…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Witness to Marriage Day, August 1

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Editorial TeamSeptember 12, 2015

Months of preparation culminated in a rally to “Witness to Marriage”, one of many to be held throughout Australia in these months in support of traditional marriage. It was held at the Victory Life Centre in Osborne Park, WA, on Saturday August 1, 2015. Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey Among those in attendance at the 500-strong…

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LIFE ISSUES Singer escapes Fisher’s net in euthanasia debate

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellSeptember 12, 2015

I had heard it described as the “clash of the titans” and other similarly grand claims evocative of mythical or gladiatorial contests of one kind or another.   Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher, left, and Professor Peter Singer But for those who have known or observed Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher and Professor Peter Singer…

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FAMILY LIFE A father’s presence in the home: part II

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John A. CuddebackSeptember 12, 2015

Is the chief intention of the man of the household – the flourishing of relationships, especially spousal and parental – essentially tied to work in the home? This is a central issue about which we should be concerned. A husband and wife of the Middle Ages at work on their cabinetry workshop. The work of…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY They don’t want diversity but to impose conformity

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneSeptember 12, 2015

There were howls of protest from the same-sex marriage lobby when Sydney’s Daily Telegraph recently reported parents objecting to a documentary on gay families being compulsory viewing in a Sydney high school. You will conform. Senator Penny Wong tweeted that this was “bullying”, automatically classing as bullies parents wanting to teach a different value system…

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LIFE ISSUES When an abomination becomes good business

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Zac AlstinAugust 29, 2015

A recent undercover operation by an anti-abortion group has cast light on some of the gruesome details behind abortion clinics’ cooperation with biotech companies in the supply of aborted foetal remains for research purposes. Saturn devours his children The story is as grotesque as you might imagine. In one video, the Planned Parenthood senior director…

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FAMILY LIFE A father’s presence in the home: part I

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John A. CuddebackAugust 29, 2015

In the face of woeful marriage statistics, appalling portrayals of marriage in the arts and entertainment, and mounting negative political and legal pressures, defenders of marriage find themselves falling back, fighting simply to salvage the freedom to articulate, yea even to live, basic aspects of traditional marriage. It might seem that this is a time…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Canada: basic freedoms lost since same-sex marriage came to town

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherAugust 29, 2015

Canadians have faced disciplinary action, termination of employment or prosecution by government tribunals since same-sex marriage was legalised in 2005 and protected attribute status was granted to sexual orientation and gender identity in anti-discrimination laws.1,2 Since being made legal, same-sex marriage has been treated identically to traditional marriage in law and public life. A corollary…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Dawn’s warning at a minute to midnight

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter KelleherAugust 15, 2015

Once a year we are reminded that countries around the world occupy different time zones: when New Year strikes in New Zealand, then Australia’s east coast, then Japan and our west coast, China, India, the Middle East, Europe, Britain, then the U.S. and Canada trailing behind. Dawn Stefanowicz spoke to News Weekly. In a moral and…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY Research finding hardly a shock: men don’t mother

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Jenet EricksonJuly 18, 2015

There’s been a strange turn of opinions about fatherhood – at least in recent public debates. Decades of research have now documented the tremendous challenges children face when they grow up without their fathers. But you would never know it by looking at some of the recent public arguments for “genderless parenting”. So, what do…

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LIFE ISSUES Woman’s suicide wrongly used to justify euthanasia

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellApril 11, 2015

The suicide death late last year of an elderly Victorian woman is being used by euthanasia advocates to push their agenda. The suicide on November 26, 2014, of 86-year-old Dorothy Hookey, a resident of Spring Gully, near Bendigo in country Victoria, was recently reported in the Melbourne daily newspaper, The Age. Director of HOPE, Paul…

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LIFE ISSUES Shocking figures on Holland’s euthanasia-fest

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Hal ColebatchJanuary 31, 2015

The British Daily Mail has published a shocking exposé by journalist Susan Reid on the euthanasia culture run wild in Holland — the country of Anne Frank and Edith Stein — which lost thousands of its Jewish citizens to the Nazis’ death factories in World War II. Apart from Nazi Germany, Holland was the first…

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LIFE ISSUES Assassinations should be ‘safe, legal and rare’

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy newsw_adminJanuary 31, 2015

If Jason Bourne of the Bourne movie trilogy had to write a thesis before graduating from the CIA’s training camp for assassins, then the following could imaginably have been his.  Melbourne underworld identity, the late Carl Williams It is high time assassinations were legalised. Week after week we learn of shootings, knifings, bashings, many of…

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MARRIAGE The love that brings new life into the world

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Rabbi Lord Jonathan SacksDecember 20, 2014

Three hundred faith leaders and scholars from around the world gave former Chief Rabbi of the Commonwealth, Lord Jonathan Sacks, a standing ovation for a speech in defence of marriage that he delivered at a recent Vatican-convened colloquium in Rome.  Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks The three-day international colloquium on “The Complementarity of Man and Woman”…

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MARRIAGE LAW Can state parliaments legislate for same-sex marriage?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Augusto Zimmermann and Lorraine FinlayDecember 6, 2014

Western Australia is about to become the focal point of the same-sex marriage debate in Australia, with the Same-Sex Marriage Bill 2013 potentially due for debate in the WA Legislative Council before the end of the year. This was introduced in December 2013 as a Private Member’s Bill by Greens MLC, the Hon. Lynn MacLaren.…

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FAMILY POLICY Canada introduces income-splitting for families

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John BallantyneNovember 22, 2014

Canadian single-income two-parent families with dependent children will be better off after a multi-billion dollar package of tax breaks and increased child benefits was announced last month by the Conservative government of Stephen Harper.  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Parents with children younger than 18 can now split their incomes for tax purposes up to…

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MARRIAGE Historic U.S. court ruling upholds man-woman marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneNovember 22, 2014

After a long string of court victories, the American campaign to redefine marriage has lost a major case in the powerful U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. The decision will have far-reaching consequences.  Judge Jeffrey Sutton At recent referenda in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, clear majorities of voters supported…

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LIFE ISSUES At last, we wake up to the truth about Dr Death

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellJuly 19, 2014

Dr Philip Nitschke and his pro-euthanasia group Exit International have been widely condemned in the aftermath of the suicides of two psychologically troubled men, Nigel Brayley, 45, of Perth, and Joe Waterman, 25, of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. ABC television’s 7:30 Report of July 3 reported: “Dr Nitschke is being accused of moving into uncharted territory…

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LIFE ISSUES: ‘Bring it on’: euthanasia doctor dares police to prosecute him

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellJune 7, 2014

A Melbourne doctor has publicly admitted that he prescribed a potentially lethal barbiturate, Nembutal, to a terminally-ill cancer sufferer nine years ago. Nembutal — known by euthanasia advocates as the “peaceful pill” — is also used by veterinary doctors to end the lives of dogs, cats and larger animals. After making his admission, Dr Rodney…

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LIFE ISSUES: A poor prognosis is not an argument for euthanasia

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellApril 12, 2014

The pro-euthanasia lobby often promotes — or, at the very least, piggybacks upon — media reports of people facing difficult prognoses who want to end their lives rather than face the prospect of deterioration and all the difficulty that such an outcome may visit upon them. Such persons often become, for a short while, celebrities…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Same-sex ‘marriage’ and its consequences

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Gerard CalilhannaMarch 15, 2014

“Just now I held up the fingers of my hand to you. You saw five fingers. Do you remember that?” “Yes.” O’Brien held up the fingers of his left hand, with the thumb concealed. “There are five fingers there. Do you see five fingers?” “Yes.” And he did see them, for a fleeting instant, before…

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FAMILY LAW: The innocent victims of ‘no-fault’ divorce

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Augusto ZimmermannMarch 1, 2014

The “no-fault” divorce revolution that spread across the Western world was led in the 1970s by members of the cultural, academic, legal and political elites, in particular by radical feminists who made the case for easy divorce as a means of women’s liberation. By declaring marriage to be an oppressive institution, they demanded “no fault”…

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FAMILY LAW: Australian man’s eight-year battle against paternity fraud

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Colin JoryFebruary 1, 2014

The basic story of Liam Magill and the paternity fraud of which he was, and is, a victim is already quite well-known, locally and internationally, as two minutes of Googling on the Internet will show. It is the story of a member of the agreed loser-class, the class comprising perhaps 95 per cent of men…

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LIFE ISSUES: Belgium euthanasia experience teaches bitter lessons

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Tom MortierDecember 21, 2013

ROTSELAAR, BELGIUM — I believe that before the Canadian province of Quebec passes its own legislation to legalise euthanasia, it needs to take a good look at Belgium, which recently took legal steps to extend euthanasia to children. After all, my country has more than 10 years of experience. In 2002, when euthanasia was legalised,…

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LIFE ISSUES: The abominable industry of human trafficking

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergNovember 23, 2013

It was overwhelmingly Christians two centuries ago who worked to abolish slavery around the world. Because of the tireless efforts of abolitionists like William Wilberforce, most of the world no longer has to deal with this horrific sin against humanity. However, there are still at least two forms of slavery being practised. Tragically, slavery in…

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LIFE ISSUES: Dr Nitschke promises death facility for Adelaide

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellNovember 23, 2013

Founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International, Dr Philip Nitschke, can’t seem to let a euthanasia debate go by without seizing the headlines. As the South Australian parliament winds down for the year, and with only two possible days for debate of Independent MP Dr Bob Such’s Ending Life with Dignity Bill, Nitschke…

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LIFE ISSUES: Tasmanian euthanasia bill defeated… for now

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellNovember 9, 2013

After 10 hours of gruelling and emotionally-charged debate, the latest euthanasia and assisted suicide bill in Tasmania was defeated 13 votes to 11 in the state parliament’s lower house on the evening of Thursday, October 17. The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2013 had been foreshadowed for more than two years. It had been the subject…

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MARRIAGE LAW: Ploy to make Coalition legalise same-sex marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Terri KelleherOctober 26, 2013

Australia’s same-sex marriage lobby is using state and territory bills in an attempt to manoeuvre the federal Coalition government towards granting a so-called “conscience vote” on changing Australia’s Marriage Act. This year alone there have been three such bills — in South Australia, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. These moves are really…

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LIFE ISSUES: Culture of death and our missing moral compass

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergOctober 12, 2013

Plenty of people today have a global positioning system (GPS). This has made the job of getting from one place to another much easier. Of course, these devices are not always foolproof; but generally they are a great help in keeping us on course and getting us to our desired destinations. Without a GPS, or…

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MARRIAGE: Same-sex marriage: is it harmless?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneOctober 12, 2013

Same-sex marriage fundamentally changes not only the legal definition of marriage, but all the social, educational, economic, legal and religious institutions that service and support marriage, family and children. Yet, the lobby pushing for redefining marriage argues that same-sex marriage does no harm to anyone else, so it should be legalised. In the Australian Capital…

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LIFE ISSUES: Abuse of the disabled: the invisible epidemic

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellSeptember 28, 2013

“Violence against persons with disabilities is a frequently unrecognised and under-reported problem that has reached epidemic proportions in the United States” — from the website of the Disabled Persons Protection Commission, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A recently published landmark report I received, entitled Abuse of People with Disabilities: Victims and Their Families Speak Out, didn’t fit…

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MARRIAGE DEBATE: Media’s reaction to ‘child equality’ election campaign

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneSeptember 14, 2013

A leaflet campaign across a number of east coast electorates defending marriage and children’s rights, organised by supporters of the Australian Family Association (AFA), attracted a strong media interest during the federal election. The AFA has had a long-standing public policy supporting marriage, which is defined in Australian law as the union of one man…

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LIFE ISSUES: Dr Nitschke reveals euthanasia’s dark side

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellSeptember 14, 2013

You’ve got to hand it to euthanasia campaigner Dr Philip Nitschke for telling it like it really is. Australia’s state-based euthanasia lobby groups, and the state-based MPs who support them, traditionally argue for limited legislation with so-called safeguards. Dr Nitschke, however, has consistently called for the legalisation of virtually unrestricted euthanasia — save only for…

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LIFE ISSUES: Are calls for euthanasia just about avoiding pain?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellJuly 20, 2013

Once, euthanasia advocacy was supposed to be chiefly concerned about sparing people unnecessary pain and discomfort towards the end of their lives. Pain is really not the issue any longer, if it ever really was. Palliative medicine has developed, particularly in recent years, to a point where virtually all pain can be dealt with. If…

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LIFE ISSUES: Two myths about those who defend the unborn

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergJuly 20, 2013

There are plenty of criticisms of, and objections to, the pro-life position. I have dealt with many of them over the years, and I find them easily answerable. A close look at these objections usually shows they are without much value and generally based on fallacious and errant thinking. Here I wish to raise two…

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LIFE ISSUES: Legal loophole threat to Irish pro-life consensus

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John AroutiounianJuly 6, 2013

The present political uproar over abortion law in Ireland — one of only three Western European nations, together with Poland and Malta, which continue to ban the practice — seems to have arrived with ferocity. The warning signs, however, are decades-old. Ireland has been abortion-free for as long as anyone can remember. The illegality of…

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MARRIAGE: Pity the child of same-sex union

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Dr David van GendJune 22, 2013

Atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “It is through children alone that sexual relations become of importance to society and worthy to be taken cognisance of by a legal institution.” The legal institution of marriage is, as French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss puts it, “a social institution with a biological foundation”. Our marriage laws and customs exist…

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MARRIAGE: The traditional family remains the most treasured relationship

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Margaret CourtJune 8, 2013

Margaret Court wrote the following letter to The Australian (May 23, 2013) on Kevin Rudd’s recent change of mind on same-sex marriage. To be swayed by a conversation over coffee and change your mind from what you once believed to be the correct moral and ethical position about marriage — as that covenant between a…

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LIFE ISSUES: Killed for being the wrong gender

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergMay 11, 2013

A bill being debated in a Senate inquiry on gender-selection abortion is most timely given the headline in Melbourne’s Sunday Herald Sun (April 28, 2013). It reads: “Couple abort girl because they wanted a boy”. Definition of barbarism: killing a human being simply because selfish adults wanted one of a different sex. Victorian DLP Senator…

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LIFE ISSUES: Lighting a candle amidst the darkness

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Ben O'BrienApril 27, 2013

Sometimes we appear to be living in a mixed-up world, especially in the way that people think about abortion. If I donate blood to the Red Cross, I can save the life of an unborn child. But if I offer to help a woman who may be having an abortion, I am accused of harassment.…

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FAMILY AND TAX: Restore the family wage by simplifying the tax system

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Stephen SmithApril 13, 2013

Two changes are needed for the taxation and family benefits system to improve efficiency and achieve equity between families. The first step is to replace the current complicated family tax benefit payment schemes with a single lump-sum payment per child. All existing family allowances, childcare subsidies, maternity allowances and other concessions for children in the…

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LIFE ISSUES: The world’s greatest killing machine

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergApril 13, 2013

So who is responsible for the most deaths ever? The communists? The Nazis? Armies at war? None of these. We now have the rough figures on the cause of the most deaths, and it is not from soldiers, dictators or criminals, but from doctors and those involved in the medical services. Abortion, it appears, is…

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LIFE ISSUES: AMA Tasmania resists Labor/Greens euthanasia push

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellApril 13, 2013

Following the South Australian branch of the Australian Medical Association’s recent rejection of the Hon. Dr Bob Such MP’s Ending Life with Dignity Bill in SA, the Tasmanian AMA last month rejected the Voluntary Assisted Dying proposal of Tasmanian Labor Premier Lara Giddings and Greens leader Nick McKim MP. The Hobart Mercury (March 16) cast…

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FAMILY: The not-to-be-missed World Congress of Families, Sydney

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter Westmore National President of the National Civic CouncilApril 13, 2013

The program for next month’s World Congress of Families (WCF) in Sydney shows that the congress will bring together many of the best thinkers and writers on the natural family, along with leading practitioners and family organisations from Australia and the rest of the world. The program is available on the congress’s website at www.wcfsydney2013.org.au/program.…

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MARRIAGE LAWS: State same-sex marriage laws would be invalid: leading QC

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter BakerMarch 30, 2013

Australia’s leading constitutional lawyer has advised that any attempt by the states to legalise same-sex marriage would be inconsistent with the federal Marriage Act and inconsistent with the Commonwealth Constitution. David Jackson QC is considered Australia’s leading constitutional lawyer. Recently, he was asked for a legal opinion by the NSW Department of Attorney-General and Justice…

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LIFE ISSUES: China: Baby crushed to death during one-child policy enforcement

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Reggie LittlejohnMarch 16, 2013

A 13-month-old baby was crushed to death under a vehicle containing Chinese government family-planning officials in Dongshantou Village near Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, in early February. Eleven officials were attempting to collect a fine from a couple who had allegedly violated China’s one-child policy. According to a China Daily report, the discussion became heated between…

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OBITUARY: Dr Lyn Billings (1918-2013), pioneer of natural family-planning

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILY, SPECIAL FEATUREBy Peter Westmore National President of the National Civic CouncilMarch 2, 2013

Dr Evelyn Livingston Billings AM: born February 8, 1918; died February 16, 2013. Dr Evelyn “Lyn” Billings, co-founder of the Billings Method of natural family-planning with her late husband, Dr John Billings, died in Melbourne on February 16 at the age of 95. The Billings were pioneers in natural family-planning, using the natural cycle of…

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FAMILY II: World Congress of Families, Sydney (May 15-18)

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter Westmore National President of the National Civic CouncilFebruary 16, 2013

Plans are now well advanced for next May’s World Congress of Families in Sydney, where around 2,000 people from around Australia are expected to come together with leading family organisations to discuss how to protect and advance the natural family. Details of the congress can be downloaded from the congress website, www.wcfsydney2013.org.au, and from the…

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FAMILY I: Is family tax relief ‘middle-class welfare’?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Angela ShanahanFebruary 16, 2013

The Australian newspaper has often published diatribes against “middle-class welfare”, especially from its regular commentators, George Megalogenis, Judith Sloane and various employees of the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). Many regular readers will no doubt find themselves in agreement with these commentators’ characterisation of “middle-class welfare”, nodding and muttering all the way through. “Why should…

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LIFE ISSUES: Darkening skies: euthanasia fronts in 2013

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellFebruary 2, 2013

The closing months of 2012 saw a massive media barrage from various pro-euthanasia sources, particularly in the eastern states. The intensity and frequency of calls across the media for voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide, ranging from personal testimonies to the latest polling results, cannot have been accidental. Those pushing for change are nothing if not…

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LIFE ISSUES: Assisted suicide rationalised by misguided motives

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Paul RussellNovember 24, 2012

Recently, I was discussing suicide with a new acquaintance. He was surprisingly open about his views, which, as it happened, largely coincided with my own. The conversation then turned to the question of assisted suicide. I proffered the opinion that, if someone was, say, standing on a precipice and about to leap to their death,…

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MARRIAGE LAWS: State same-sex marriage laws are unconstitutional

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Augusto ZimmermannOctober 13, 2012

The Tasmanian Labor government, led by Premier Lara Giddings, has long been pushing for legislation for state-based same-sex marriage. The problem is that any such legislation would be subject to disallowance by the High Court were a challenge to be mounted. The Australian constitution explicitly provides the Commonwealth parliament with the authority to “make laws…

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MARRIAGE: State push for same-sex unions could trap Nicola Roxon

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter Westmore National President of the National Civic CouncilSeptember 15, 2012

With the strong support of the Greens, Labor governments in Tasmania, South Australia and now the Australian Capital Teritory are pushing to get legislation through at state and territory level, as a means of bypassing the federal parliament where it seems that a majority of MPs and senators will reject same-sex “marriage”. The unpopular Labor…

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GENDER AND IDENTITY: Hope for people who struggle with same-sex attraction

HEALTH & EDUCATION, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Marie MasonSeptember 1, 2012

Where do people suffering from unwanted same-sex attractions turn for help? There are a number of support organisations, most of them run by churches. One of the longest-established is the Catholic Church’s Courage, which is made up of men and women who struggle with same-sex attraction, but who seek to live out their lives in…

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LIFE ISSUES: Pioneering law saves the unborn, protects women

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Babette FrancisSeptember 1, 2012

Two American lawyers, who have helped devise groundbreaking pro-life legislation in their country, toured Australia and New Zealand in August to promote their pioneering approach to saving the unborn. Nikolas T. Nikas and Dorinda C. Bordlee, president and vice-president respectively of the US-based pro-life legal organisation Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF), played a key role in…

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FAMILY: Madrid hosts inspiring World Congress of Families

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Babette FrancisJune 23, 2012

Despite economic woes besetting their country, pro-family groups in Spain — headed by Ignacio Arsuaga Rato, founder of a pro-life human rights movement HazteOir.org (roughly translates as “Make you hear”) — organised an inspiring World Congress of Families VI in Madrid, May 25-27. Not only did delegates hear a veritable feast of pro-life and pro-marriage…

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MARRIAGE: Don’t blame gay lobby for decline in marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Stephen BaskervilleMarch 3, 2012

Defenders of marriage must face some hard facts or they are going to lose their fight — and with it, quite possibly, their religious freedom as well. Considerable nonsense has been written by some opponents of same-sex marriage, while some critical truths are not being heard. Confronting the facts can enable us to win not…

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FAMILY: Feminism the sworn enemy of families

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Tempe HarveyFebruary 18, 2012

My close encounter with feminism was confined to a fortnight during 1982 when I was studying first-year law and a Masters in study avoidance techniques. Gaining credit in the latter, I tucked myself into a cubicle in the University of Queensland’s Duhig Library and listened to hours of cassette recordings of American feminist academics interviewing…

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MARRIAGE: Mature leadership needed in emotional marriage debate

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Tim CannonDecember 24, 2011

The marriage debate has become so deeply personal and emotional that it can be difficult to approach the issue objectively. The personal dimension of the debate was highlighted at the ALP’s national conference, where ACT Deputy Chief Minister Andrew Barr argued the case for marriage reform on the basis of ending discrimination. “We are not…

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FAMILY LAW: Labor and Greens creating a fatherless society

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy special correspondentDecember 10, 2011

On the night of Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at 9:53 pm, the Labor/Greens-controlled Senate passed the “Shared Parenting Rollback” Bill 2011 (Family Law Amendment Bill 2011). Warwick Marsh, head of the Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation, said afterwards that the new measures were “nothing more than radical feminist ideologically-based, anti-family legislation that will ensure the destruction of…

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FAMILY LAW: Labor/Greens to dump Howard’s shared parenting laws

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Warwick MarshOctober 29, 2011

I received a phone call a few weeks ago from a 30-year-old dad desperate to be reunited with his 11-month-old son. I had already commenced trying to write my newsletter for the Fatherhood Foundation and really didn’t want to talk to him, but something about his reasoned manner on the phone caught my attention. We…

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MARRIAGE: Same-sex marriage will damage family and society

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy James BowenSeptember 17, 2011

In her article, “Same-sex marriage agenda to subvert marital fidelity” (News Weekly, August 20, 2011), Babette Francis highlights one of the serious risks that the gay rights agenda poses for traditional marriage and its important role in society. The Greens, exploiting their crucial support for the Gillard minority Labor Government, are likely to continue their…

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FAMILY LAW II: Creating another stolen generation?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy George R. ChristensenJune 25, 2011

In addressing the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Family Violence and Other Measures) Bill 2011, I have come to understand how the citizens of Troy must have felt when they were greeted with the gift of a giant wooden horse, because this bill is not what it appears. It is a Trojan horse. Just like the…

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FAMILY LAW I: How widespread are false allegations of abuse?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick ParkinsonJune 25, 2011

The Gillard Government is poised to roll back a number of the “shared parenting” provisions that the Howard Government introduced to the Family Law Act in 2006. These were to ensure that children of divorced couples could, wherever suitable, continue to enjoy a meaningful relationship, and spend significant periods of time, with both their parents.…

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FAMILY AND CIVILISATION: The growth and decline of the Roman economy

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John G. Keegan AMApril 2, 2011

When one harkens back to Rome one is usually met with consistent comparisons to political ideals, military glory or the decadence and immorality of the upper classes in the late republican and imperial periods. Very rarely, however, is the focus on the economy that made the wealth of the Roman Republic possible in the third…

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OBITUARY: Abortionist who became pro-life crusader: Bernard Nathanson (1926-2011)

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILY, UncategorizedBy Bill MuehlenbergMarch 19, 2011

Anyone involved in the abortion debate – no matter which side they are on – will know of Dr Bernard Nathanson. A key player in the abortion wars, he passed away in the United States on February 21, aged 84, after a lengthy battle against cancer. Bernard N. Nathanson, MD(1926-2011). He was one of a number…

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PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Gillard’s pseudo-PPL scheme a malign charade

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Colin JoryMarch 5, 2011

On New Year’s Day, the Gillard Labor Government’s so-called “paid parental leave” scheme came into force. It has attracted considerable protest from some employers because of the cost and pointless inconvenience to which it will put them. They would protest much more stridently, however, if they realised how the scheme is pre-programmed to evolve. Under…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Why children need a mother and a father

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergOctober 30, 2010

There are many thousands of studies which have appeared over the past four to five decades showing quite clearly how absolutely important biological mothers and fathers are to the well-being of their children. Study after study has shown that no other factor is more vital to the healthy development of children than having a mum…

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DIVORCE LAW: The continuing war on marriage and fatherhood

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Stephen BaskervilleOctober 2, 2010

Some four decades ago, while few were paying attention, the Western world embarked on the boldest social experiment in its history. With no public discussion of the possible consequences, laws were enacted in virtually every jurisdiction that effectively ended marriage as a legal contract. Today it is not possible to form a binding agreement to…

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FAMILY POLICIES: Let families decide how they structure their work/life balance

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Tim CannonAugust 21, 2010

Families want government support to raise their children as they please, and to have time together over the Sunday roast. However, today, when parents are run off their feet working and looking after their kids, both sides of politics are bent on getting more married women with children into paid work and away from their…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Saying yes to heterosexual marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergAugust 7, 2010

There are plenty of reasons why we should not confuse same-sex marriage with the real thing. Marriage is a universal and historical institution which serves tremendous social purposes. It regulates human sexuality, and it procures the well-being of any offspring from the sexual union. Thus it is not a mere private matter, but a vitally…

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PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: The PPL assault on the family: a solution

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy News Weekly TeamAugust 7, 2010

A special report In Sweden, 81.3 per cent of children are in part-time or full-time day-care. This statistic should serve as a warning of how disastrous for Australian families is paid parental leave (PPL), which discriminates heavily against stay-at-home mothers. In Australia today, only about 30 per cent of babies and toddlers are in day-care.…

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PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Labour and Coalition reject equality for stay-home mums

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Tim CannonJune 26, 2010

As News Weekly goes to press (June 16), the Australian Senate has adjourned debate on the Rudd Government’s proposed paid parental leave scheme. However, comments from Liberal Senator Sue Boyce indicate that the bill will pass the upper house with the support of both Liberal and Labor senators, contrary to concerns expressed by the Prime…

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PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Rudd and Abbott overlook stay-at-home mothers

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Babette FrancisJune 12, 2010

Children will suffer discrimination based on the workforce status of their parents if the Rudd Labor Government’s draft paid parental leave (PPL) bill is enacted. PPL would give families on two full-time incomes an average of $2,000 more per pregnancy than single-income families who get the baby bonus. I, along with a number of like-minded…

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GENDER AND IDENTITY: Children with gender identity disorder

HEALTH & EDUCATION, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Babette FrancisMay 15, 2010

Baby girls make a beeline for dolls as soon as they can crawl, and baby boys head for toy cars, a new British study has shown. “There could be a biological basis for their choices,” said one of the study’s authors, London psychologist Dr Brenda Todd (UK Daily Mail, April 16). I myself wrote exactly…

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GENDER AND IDENTITY: Help for homosexuals who want change

HEALTH & EDUCATION, LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Babette FrancisMay 1, 2010

Last week I was privileged to meet “Catarina”, who prefers to omit her last name because of aggressive opposition and death threats she has received from a range of organisations that oppose reparative therapy for same-sex attraction (SSA). Married with four children, Catarina is an Italian psychologist, based in Spain, but currently living in Melbourne.…

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PAID PARENTAL LEAVE II: Maternity leave and the mother wars

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergApril 17, 2010

A brand new survey of what women really want concerning paid maternity leave is most revealing. Contrary to the usual line that basically all women want a paid career, with perhaps family thrown in on the side, this new Galaxy poll finds overwhelming support for the importance of stay-at-home mothering. Commissioned by the Australian Family…

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PAID PARENTAL LEAVE I: Rudd and Abbott schemes will punish stay-home mums

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Colin JoryApril 17, 2010

Recently, federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott unilaterally announced that the federal Coalition, if elected, would implement one of the most extravagant paid parental leave (PPL) schemes in the world. Women in the paid workforce will receive six months’ maternity leave on a government maternity wage at their full pre-leave pay-rate, up to $150,000 per annum…

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PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Voters want equality for all mothers: Galaxy poll

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneApril 3, 2010

By a two-to-one margin, Australians want equal parenting payments for all mums with new babies, in place of the discriminatory Rudd and Abbott paid parental leave schemes. Overwhelmingly, 64 per cent of Australians want paid parental leave to be made available to all new mothers, whether they are stay-at-home or paid workforce mothers. The findings…

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DIVORCE LAW: Family Law’s unending war on fatherhood

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergMarch 20, 2010

Australian family law, the Family Law Act and the Family Court all have a lot to answer for. They have regularly and systematically treated fathers with contempt and derision, depriving them of the most basic of human rights, including the right to see their own children after the breakdown of a marriage. A devastating critique…

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SEX EDUCATION: Abstinence-only programs teach young to make wiser choices

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Babette FrancisMarch 6, 2010

Sex education programs that encourage children to remain celibate can persuade a significant number to delay sexual activity, according to a landmark study funded by a federal grant from the US government. Only a third of the 6th and 7th grade American students who participated in an abstinence-only program started having sex in the next…

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FAMILY POLICY: Voters demand equality in childcare maternity payments

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Patrick J. ByrneMarch 6, 2010

Overwhelmingly, Australians want childcare payments made to all families, and they want all mothers to receive the same amount from the government whey they have a child. Currently, childcare payments are paid only to women with paid jobs who put their children in childcare centres; childcare payments discriminate heavily against mothers who raise their children…

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FAMILY AND SOCIETY: What fatherlessness costs society

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergMarch 6, 2010

A recent Melbourne newspaper article carried this headline: “Boys lack role models.” The piece began with these words: “A decline in the number of male teachers is being blamed for rising youth violence. Just 28 per cent of state schoolteachers are men, down from 32 per cent 10 years ago. “Youth crime has soared in…

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SURROGACY: Next stolen generation – who needs a mother, anyway?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy David van GendMarch 6, 2010

The Surrogacy Bill 2009, passed by the Queensland Parliament, by 45 votes to 36 on February 11, should have been about altruistic surrogacy as a “last resort” for an infertile couple. But no, under that respectable cloak this new act has smuggled in a radical proposal to deprive children of their birthright – their fundamental…

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FAMILY VALUES: Human rights and education

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy William Saunders JrFebruary 6, 2010

This article is from a presentation by William L. Saunders, Jr, director of the Centre for Human Life and Bioethics, Family Research Council, at the fifth World Congress of Families, held in Amsterdam in August 2009. I would like to focus upon a matter many ordinary people consider to be of primary importance in ordinary…

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FAMILY LAW: Will Rudd Govt roll back shared parenting?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Sue PriceFebruary 6, 2010

According to leaks to the media, Australian children less than two years old, whose parents are separated, will be prevented from spending much time with their father. Information from the Australian Institute of Family Studies’ “Shared Parenting Study” – and the report into domestic violence and family law compiled by ex-Family Court judge Richard Chisholm…

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FAMILY VALUES: Human rights and education

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy William Saunders JrFebruary 6, 2010

This article is from a presentation by William L. Saunders, Jr, director of the Centre for Human Life and Bioethics, Family Research Council, at the fifth World Congress of Families, held in Amsterdam in August 2009. I would like to focus upon a matter many ordinary people consider to be of primary importance in ordinary…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Back to basics in the marriage debate

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Tim CannonSeptember 19, 2009

Impassioned calls for same-sex marriage have left some of our MPs perilously prone to well-intentioned confusion. Before they redefine a fundamental institution of human civilisation, our elected representatives would do well to consider why marriage exists at all. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has put forward a bill which would redefine the institution of marriage to…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Family the key to social inclusion and cohesion

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy James BogleSeptember 5, 2009

Five hundred people from around Australia gathered in Canberra at the Great Hall of Parliament House on August 13 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the passage of the Howard Government’s Marriage Amendment Act, designed to uphold the traditional definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. The Canberra gathering also saw…

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MARRIAGE: The personal and social costs of cohabitation

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Tim CannonAugust 8, 2009

Cohabitation before marriage or engagement is a significant risk factor for divorce, and predicts lower marriage quality, according to a new study published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Family Psychology. The study serves as a stark wake-up call for young couples at a time when the incidence of pre-marital cohabitation continues to rise.…

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FAMILY POLICY: Promoting family-centred child-care

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Dr Allan CarlsonApril 18, 2009

Why have stay-at-home mothers and home-based child-rearing been so consistently undervalued? Distinguished American social commentator and family activist Dr Allan Carlson finds some unexpected answers in history and economics. Contemporary issues surrounding family life, gender roles and child-care usually generate controversy. Accordingly, it is important to remember that the “collision” between home and work –…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Swedish social laboratory’s disastrous legacy

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergApril 18, 2009

The institutions of marriage and family are barely recognisable in Sweden today, writes Bill Muehlenberg. There are plenty of countries in the West which have promoted secular, leftist ideologies and have embraced radical social engineering. And these utopian schemers are quite happy to use the coercive powers of the state to enforce their radical objectives.…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Sexual suicide of Western society

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergMarch 7, 2009

How much more abuse can we take as a culture before society can no longer function or continue, asks Bill Muehlenberg. The dramatic erosion of marriage and the explosion of out-of-control sexuality are not without their devastating consequences. Many acute observers have noted this. In 1968, Will and Ariel Durant warned in their important book…

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MARRIAGE: US battle to preserve traditional marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John ElsegoodDecember 6, 2008

Citizens in three American states have voted to prevent traditional marriage from being redefined, reports John Elsegood. The greatest threat to marriage and family is the attempt to legalise same-sex marriage, according to Lynn Wardle, law professor from Brigham Young University in Utah. He warned the October national conference of the Australian Family Association in the…

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FAMILY: Will paid maternity leave help mothers?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergOctober 25, 2008

Bill Muehlenberg asks whether paid maternity leave is merely a cynical means to help businesses get their female employees back to paid work as soon as possible. There are two main questions to ask about any paid maternity leave scheme. First, who pays for it? And, second, how long should it extend for? Perhaps most…

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MARRIAGE: On breaking the marriage covenant

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergAugust 30, 2008

US Senator John Edwards has admitted to having an extramarital affair while his wife was dying of cancer. However, what is even more indefensible, writes Bill Muehlenberg, is that many people are prepared to justify his behaviour. For millennia, the institution of marriage was viewed as a solemn covenant, involving strong obligations and commitment. Recently, however,…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Under threat – the roles of motherhood and fatherhood

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Mary-Louise FowlerAugust 2, 2008

A controversial Same-Sex Relationships Bill, designed to afford lesbian de facto partners the same legal status as biological fathers, was passed by the New South Wales Parliament on June 4. On the eve of this vote, Mary-Louise Fowler, NSW president of the Australian Family Association, spoke against the bill at a Dads4kids forum held at…

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FAMILY POLICY: Home truths about working families

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergJune 21, 2008

The Rudd Government speaks incessantly about working families. The recent federal Budget was all about working families. Government policy is aimed at working families. So just who and what exactly are these working families? Bill Muehlenberg reports. Certain terms are simply government code-words, or euphemisms, for politically correct ideologies. That is certainly the case with the…

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FAMILY LAW: Paternity fraud punishes the blameless

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Charles Francis, AM, QC, RFDApril 26, 2008

Husbands have no protection from paternity fraud, thanks to legal rulings by the Family Court and High Court, writes Charles Francis QC. At a public function where Sir Owen Dixon, then Chief Justice of our High Court, was present, a guest remarked to him that he must feel very proud to have administered justice for…

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FAMILY POLICY: Family-friendly policies at risk

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John MorrisseyFebruary 16, 2008

Will existing government family benefits be maintained by the new Rudd Labor Government, or will they be re-allocated to institutionalised child-care? John Morrissey reports. Finance Minister Lindsey Tanner has the unenviable task of having to find more than $10 billion in cuts to the federal Budget. This is argued to be necessary to lessen the…

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FAMILY: Group marriage on the way

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergAugust 4, 2007

Australia should brace itself for the group-marriage debate, warns Bill Muehlenberg. Dumb ideas have the propensity to spawn more dumb ideas. Reckless social engineering tends to result in even more radical social changes. Give the radicals an inch and they will demand a light year. Such is the nature of the never-ending radical agenda. Call…

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FAMILY ASSISTANCE: Howard’s cash benefits for families

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John MorrisseyMay 12, 2007

Has the Howard Government really boosted working families’ incomes, asks John Morrissey. Howard Government boosts the working family’s income! This unlikely-sounding scenario is true for single-income families with children and earning low take-home wages. In fact, the $25,000 a year gross wages of a breadwinner with two children and a carer/spouse, is topped up to…

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OBITUARY: Dr John Billings (1918-2007) and the Culture of Life

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILY, SPECIAL FEATUREBy Anna KrohnApril 28, 2007

The life and career of Dr John James Billings – pioneer of “the Billings Method” of natural family planning – are celebrated by Anna Krohn. Dr John Billings (right)and Dr Evelyn Billings. It is noteworthy that Dr John James Billings should pass from this life on April 1, the vigil of the second anniversary of…

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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY: Rights and wrongs in relationship recognition

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergFebruary 17, 2007

Bill Muehlenberg warns that the battle to preserve marriage in Australia is far from over, as various state Labor governments attempt to establish alternative “relationship registers”. Homosexuals continue to demand special rights. The simple truth, however, is that, as individuals, homosexuals already enjoy all the rights and benefits that others do. It is when the…

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BIOTECHNOLOGY: The ascent of Mount Improbable

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Brian ComanOctober 14, 2006

Think of modern research in human biology as a journey up the slopes of a huge mountain – Mount Improbable. Here, science has mastered all medical ‘problems’ – the human genetic code and every aspect of human physiology. There are limitless possibilities – indefinite prolongation of life, ‘designer’ babies, human-animal hybrids, bionic limbs, and computerised…

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SEX EDUCATION: Islamic schools reject “safe sex” message

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy News Weekly TeamJune 10, 2006

A principal of a Melbourne Islamic school said his sex education classes will not include discussion about “safe sex” because it encourages promiscuity. Islamic schools in Australia have united to ensure that Muslim children reject the “safe sex” message purveyed through most Australian schools, and to ensure that children are taught that sexual activity should…

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FAMILY: Co-habiting couples and child neglect

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Howard CenterMay 13, 2006

Non-marital cohabiting couples spend more money on themselves and less on their children than do married couples, a recent US study has found. Though the chattering classes generally view it as a fully acceptable substitute for marriage, non-marital cohabitation offers little to children. For cohabiting parents typically part with so much of their money at…

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FAMILY LAW: Divorcing dads let down again

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John HirstApril 15, 2006

Men’s groups are disappointed that the Government’s amendments to family law don’t go far enough, writes John Hirst. In June 2003, Prime Minister John Howard declared family law was not working well because too many children were growing up without contact with their fathers. The various men’s groups around the country hoped that finally they…

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FAMILY: Parental duty of care fails adolescents

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Susan Reibel MooreOctober 8, 2005

Australian family law considers an adolescent of 16 to be fully adult. But if his parents divorce and then abandon him, he has no legal redress, writes Susan Reibel Moore. Under Australian family law, a post-divorce court settlement can often result in the innocent party, often the father, effectively being denied access to his children.…

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Family Law’s five-fold disaster (letter)

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Janos PaskandySeptember 24, 2005

Sir, Almost 30 years after the enactment of the Family Law Act 1975, Australia has suffered a five-fold disaster: a divorce epidemic;a half stolen generation;fathers dispossessed of their property, children and a large part of their income on an ongoing basis;a lower level of achievement but increased drug abuse and higher crime rate among children,…

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FAMILY LAW: Paternity fraud penalises the innocent

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Babette FrancisAugust 13, 2005

Businessmen who are caught committing corporate fraud or insider trading are exposed and punished – with fines, jail or both – and rightly so. However, women who commit paternity fraud, i.e. deceive their husbands about the paternity of “their” children, appear to get away with it and seem to have the Victorian Women’s Legal Service…

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FAMILY: Is Australia facing a new baby boom?

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Dr Kerrie AllenJune 18, 2005

Dr Kerrie Allen examines what makes women choose to have or not to have children. Australian women are having more babies, according to recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data. More than 133,000 were born in the six months to September last year – the biggest six-month total in the past 14 years. This increase…

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FAMILY LAW: ‘No-fault’ principle undermines marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Babette FrancisApril 23, 2005

The “no-fault” principle enshrined in Australia’s Family Law Act has had a devastating impact on the status of marriage and the family, writes Babette Francis. The Federal Government is optimistic that changes to the Child Support Agency and the new Family Relationship Centres will reduce the animosity between divorcing couples. However, just as geologists and…

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FAMILY LAW: Family Court ‘a monstrosity’

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John HirstApril 9, 2005

No-fault divorce has not yet led to no-fault weddings. Marriage services are now very varied, but in one form or another the couple make a commitment to each other. So far there are no services where the couples declare: “I promise you nothing” or “I will leave when I like”. These would be the words…

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FAMILY: AFA calls for adopting parents to be married

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Peter WestmoreApril 9, 2005

Children adopted from overseas should be taken into intact families in which both parents are married, says the Australian Family Association (AFA). The House of Representatives is currently conducting an inquiry into the laws governing adoption of children from overseas. In Australia, laws on adoption (including overseas adoption) are state matters, and are influenced by…

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SEX EDUCATION: Telling teens the truth – ‘cool’ virginity, abstinence and faithful marriage

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Roslyn PhillipsDecember 4, 2004

Australia’s Dolly magazine, with its “Perve Alerts” followed by condom and pill advice for young teenagers, is not the place you’d expect to find an article promoting virginity. But the November 2004 edition of Dolly showed six “cool” young women aged 16-23 who were all virgins and proud of it. Anna McCoy (17) said: “I…

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FAMILY: Better deal demanded for families

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy John BallantyneSeptember 11, 2004

Australia’s falling birth-rate, the need to protect children from Internet pornography, family law and divorced fathers’ custody rights, and the media’s antagonism to family values were some of the issues discussed at the recent National Conference of the Australian Family Association. The conference, which was held at Melbourne’s Bayview Conference Centre on August 28, featured…

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MARRIAGE ACT: Major triumph for marriage in Australia

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Bill MuehlenbergAugust 28, 2004

The Marriage Amendment Bill 2004 finally passed the Senate on August 13, by 38 votes to 6, with the Labor Party voting with the Government in favour of the traditional definition of marriage. The Bill upholds “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life.”…

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FAMILY: Hard-won victory on Marriage Amendment Bill

LIFE MARRIAGE & FAMILYBy Richard EganAugust 28, 2004

In June 2003, the Supreme Court of Ontario changed the common law definition of marriage to accommodate same-sex couples. News Weekly reported that this finding had grave implications for Australia. The passage of the Marriage Amendment Bill 2004 has forestalled this particular threat to marriage. It will preclude any recognition by Australian officials or judges…

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