Police urged to monitor Nitschke’s euthanasia meeting

The Australian Christian Lobby urged ACT police to keep a close eye on a public meeting that was held by euthanasia advocate Dr Phillip Nitschke in Canberra. ABC News

Vic Premier defends 18 as legal drinking age

In the wake of a smash in the Melbourne suburb of Clayton, involving eight people in a Mitsubishi Lancer coupe, Victorian premier John Brumby defended the current drinking age. More

The radical threat to our society

Sen Cory Bernardi

South Australian Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi comments on the tradition of opening Parliament with a reading of the Lord’s Prayer:

The weekend’s call by Speaker Harry Jenkins and supported by Senator Bob Brown, leader of the extreme and often contradictory Greens Party, for the abolition of prayers in parliament has been opposed by both major party leaders.

Most appalling was the suggestion that the Lord’s Prayer be replaced by an acknowledgement of the spiritual nature of the indigenous peoples’ relationship with the land. More

Executive salaries – a Christian view

Jim Wallace

“Obscene executive salaries of themselves are not the cause of the current collapse of international markets, but they are symptomatic of a level of greed, and importantly attitude, that is very much characteristic of a world losing its spiritual roots,” Jim Wallace, the managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby, said today.

Backing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s comments about economic greed, Mr Wallace said in a media release that Australia and much of the Western world have travelled too far down a path of materialism, where the desires of individuals are put ahead of the needs of the community. More

ACL calls for action on child sexualisation

Jim Wallace
(Photo: ACL)

As the controversy about photographer Bill Henson’s access to a Melbourne school continued, the Australian Christian Lobby said the issue underscored the wider problem of children being brought up in a “toxic sexualised environment”.

In a statement today, the ACL pointed to federal government inaction following a Senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children.

ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said that the report of the Senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment, which was More

More euthanasia advocacy from Fairfax

Brought to you by the Sun-Herald today – another shameless piece of euthanasia advocacy journalism presented as news.

As the reader (thank you) who sent the link to this piece pointed out, it is a one-sided story championing the views of long-time euthanasia campaigner Rodney Syme. No alternative view is canvassed. But, the Sun-Herald did have the time to seek out another view that supported changes to the exisiting law.

This is another example of Fairfax media campaigning for a radical social cause.

The Greens have indicated that they will use their share of the More

Quote of the Week: Gerard Henderson on Insiders

On the latest developments concerning photographer Bill Henson’s access to schools, the executive director of the Sydney Institute Gerard Henderson said:

“David Marr has said the general public More

ALP senator’s plan to let parents legally abandon kids

News.com.au has this story about a Tasmanian Labor Senator’s plan to allow parents to abandon their unwanted babies without having to give information about themselves or the baby and with guaranteed immunity from prosecution for criminal abandonment. More

NZ parliament’s “rainbow room”

Stuff.co.nz reports that “somewhere over the rainbow at parliament there’s now a select committee room dedicated to gay, lesbian and transgender New Zealanders.” More

Crikey lashes aged pensioners

Crikey adopted a hard-hearted attitude towards Australia’s aged pensioners, but bled for the politically correct poor in the newsletter’s editorial last Friday.

Protesting pensioners were “rent-a-whingers” with “indexed stipends” who are “railing against the obsession with portion size in the parliamentary canteen,” according to Crikey’s Friday editorial. More

Left wing spite on display

Sydney Institute executive director takes aim at some current examples of the cultural left’s contempt for Australian society. More

Warped logic behind Productivity Commission birth rate claim

You sometimes wonder whether government-appointed economists just have too much time on their hands.

The Productivity Commission has released a report which claims that further increases in the birth rate could harm Australia’s economy. More

Going soft on crime breeds more crime

Sending serious juvenile offenders to jail just helps seasoned crims school the pampered snot-gobblers in the finer points of criminality.

And allowing publication of their names will shame and embarrass them, leading to alienation from society and a lapse back into offending.

Well, new figures out today show up those arguments as the namby-pamby balderdash they are. More

Little media interest in teen crime surge

The surge in teenage crime recorded in the latest Victorian Children’s Court annual report (see story above) didn’t generate a lot of media interest. More

Postmodern social engineering scorecard

Stepfamilies and blended families are the fastest growing family types in Australia, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
The SMH quoted a spokesperson of the Stepfamily Association of Victoria, “The whole nature of the family as an institution is changing.
“Many people are finding that quite confusing and distressing.”
What do they expect? More