The Queen's Birthday 2012 Honours list
The Governor-General, Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC CVO, today congratulated award recipients in The Queen's Birthday 2012 Honours List. .
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NSW Right to Life concerned as GetUp! using its power to try to silence free speech at Sydney University
NSW Right to Life has lambasted a report in The Australian (6 June) newspaper that a University of Sydney Union group, Life Choices Sydney (LCS) is claimed by some to be an "affront" to women and that GetUp! through their website "Your Community" is trying to silence free speech by sponsoring an online petition .
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Sydney University's pro-life club reports free speech under threat among students
LifeChoice Sydney, The University of Sydney\'s student-based prolife club, is concerned with calls for its recent affiliation to the University of Sydney Union (USU) to be overturned as any such move would significantly diminish freedom of speech in student life.
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Marriage act amendment passes in NSW Parliament, Christian group doubts promise to protect religious rights
The New South Wales and Federal Parliament have voted to legislations to amend the marriage act to allow same-sex couples to marry, and a motion to confirm the freedom of religious celebrants in choosing if they want to perform same-sex marriages if such marriages eventually do get legalized. Australian Christian Lobby however cast serious doubt how long such protection for religious celebrants will last, in view of examples in other countries that have gone through the motions of legalising sam
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Christian lobby: Green's 'marriage equality' inconsistency is revealed by rejecting polygamy
The Australian Christian Lobby said the Greens have shown an inconsistent approach to supposed 'marriage equality' by rejecting polygamous and polyamorous love.
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Young people 'rampantly' accessing porn
The explosion in internet use in recent decades has not come without a cost as more and more people access sexually explicit material over the internet.
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Fred Nile in NSW Upper House: Australia is not a secular, but a Christian nation
The Rev Hon Fred Nile MLC has given a Speech in the NSW Upper House on the theme: Australia is a Christian Nation.
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Wesley Mission mourns passing of Barbara Holborow
Wesley Mission is mourning the passing of former children\'s magistrate and advocate Barbara Holborow.
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Australian children seeking for gender identity disorder treatment on the rise
The number of children receiving hormone treatment for gender identity disorder has increased greatly at one Australian clinic over the past decade, with the number of patient referrals growing eight times since 2003, doctors recently reported in the Medical Journal of Australia.
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ACL welcomes Victorian Government's support for Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commissioner
The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed the Victorian Government's statement of support for Professor Kuravilla George as a member of Victoria\'s Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC).
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Mental health: national study reveals that family carers carry long-term cost
Wesley Mission today released an eight-point plan to help support people caring for relatives with mental health issues after its study of more than 1000 Australians revealed that caring comes at a profound personal cost.
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Anglicare Sydney CEO: Federal budget will deliver a surplus at the cost of the poor and needy
"The Federal Budget falls short in vision, and is constricted to delivering a surplus despite the real human and economic cost", says ANGLICARE Sydney CEO Grant Millard.