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Dr Moyes questions the justification for Tillegra Dam

Rev the Hon. Dr Gordon Moyes AC MLC, an Independent Member of the Legislative Council, has questioned the NSW Government's plans to build Tillegra Dam after an independent analysis into water supplies to the Hunter Valley has found that there is a one-in-a-million chance of current water supplies being low enough to justify building a proposed dam..

  • 'Don't dismiss dad' campaign launched as bill rushed on Tasmania's Upper House

    The Tasmanian Upper House has been urged to reject Lower House pressure to rush through a bill which would deny the existence of fathers to young children.

  • Tasmanian Parliament urged not to discard dads

    The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) urged the Tasmanian Parliament to reject proposed law changes which would create biological fiction and dismiss the presumption that a child has a father.

  • Qld parliamentarians urged to vote down same-sex surrogacy

    The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) urged Queensland parliamentarians to vote against moves to allow same-sex surrogacy arrangements which would deprive children of the complementary love and care of both a mother and a father.

  • Amendments improve Equal Opportunity bill in South Australia

    Last month the Equal Opportunity (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill passed the House of Assembly in the South Australian Parliament. Attorney-General, Michael Atkinson, in announcing the passing of the Bill, stated that carers, contract workers, mentally ill people, breastfeeding mothers and people wearing religious dress were among those set to most benefit from the new equal opportunity legislation.

  • New terrorism threat emerges out of Africa

    The global reach of Islamic terrorism has been again underlined by the recent discovery that an extremist movement from a failed African nation served as the inspiration for a group of men in the suburbs of Melbourne to hatch a plan to kill innocent Australians.

  • Mobile phones flared up Kandhamal violence, says police

    Guess, what is the latest to crop up in the list of elements that flared communal violence in Kandhamal? Mobile phones, says a senior police officer.

  • Biofuel production 'exacerbating' climate change, says Christian Aid

    Western governments are pouring billions of dollars into the production of biofuels with dubious benefits for the climate, warns Christian Aid.

  • Residents paying for lack of council power

    Elsternwick residents are rightly 'ecstatic' over recent wins against proposed sex-related bars in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Victoria\'s Liquor Licensing Commission, but it has been an expensive exercise they should not have been forced to go through according to Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) Victorian Director Rob Ward.

  • Australia celebrates bicentenary of William Cowper - the Indispensable Parson

    When retired English banker Keith Cowper wondered what to do with the old chest in his attic, he could hardly have imagined that on the other side of the world the descendents of its original owner were well advanced in planning a bicentennial celebration, seeking their own historical reference points to trace their ancestor's life in Australia.

  • Religion less crucial now in marriage decisions

    More Australians are marrying outside their religion. Second- and third-generation family members are increasingly willing to walk down the aisle with people of other faiths. Monash University research has found Christians have the highest rates of intermarriage, particularly with other Christian denominations, while emerging religions such as Hinduism and Islam have the lowest.

  • Balibo 5 Brother Paul Stewart launches national campaign to help disabled East Timorese kids

    With the national release of the award winning film 'Balibo' (the story of five Australian journalists murdered in East Timor in 1975) Paul Stewart, brother of Balibo Five journalist Tony Stewart, launches a national appeal to help raise money for children with disabilities living in East Timor.