Federal Government releases interim aboriginal services report
The Federal Government has released an interim report into the progress of delivering important social and economic services to aboriginal communities throughout regional and remote Australia. .
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Greens take Balmain in landmark victory
The Australian Greens have won their first ever lower house seat in New South Wales, claiming victory in Balmain.
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ACL: Tas Govt right to link legal brothels to demand for prostituted women
Saturday\'s report that the Tasmanian Labor Government's Attorney General David Bartlett does not favour legal brothels because they increase demand for prostituted women and don't protect the vulnerable shows political leaders are waking up to the failure of normalising the sex trade in other States.
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Christian lobby supports Gillard's right to stand up to Greens
The Gillard Government must not bow to Greens' threats of 'consequences' coming back to 'bite' it for warning Australians of the dangers of Green ideology, the Australian Christian Lobby said today.
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Reverend Moyes to support young Christian leaders in politics
The high profile Christian and now former New South Wales politician, Reverend Gordon Moyes, has announced he'll focus on writing and supporting young Christian leaders following his loss in the recent state election.
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Legal brothels using trafficked women is further proof of failed policy
The Australian Christian Lobby said a report in today's Melbourne Age revealing human trafficking in legal brothels, is further proof that attempts to make prostitution safe through regulation have failed.
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Christian group supports euthanasia
Euthanasia is again in the headlines following the South Australian Parliament's provisional support to provide medical doctors with a legal defence against the assisted suicide of terminally ill patients.
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Christian group: Greens should stick with environmental policies, stop picking fights with faith groups
Failure of the Greens in the NSW election to capitalize on their alliance with federal Labor shows the decisions of faith groups to unmask Greens social policies has traction, according to John Miller, the parliamentary liaison officer for the Australian Christian Values Institute.
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Christian Democrats set to win seat and balance of power
The Christian Democratic Party has outpolled Family First 2 to 1 in the first New South Wales Election to see them come head to head in an upper house contest.
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Barry O'Farrell sweeps to power in record victory
Last night, New South Wales' 43rd Premier (elect) Barry O'Farrell took to a small stage at the Parramatta Leagues Club and declared to 'make New South Wales number one again' after accepting victory in the state election.
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Psychologist fears public support for Heynes misinforms future bully victims, encourage violence
The \"bully slam\" video that shows an Australian teenager body-slamming his bully has gone viral, causing family experts to be concerned that the victim\'s aggressive response is attracting the wrong kind of attention and will only promote violence among children.
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Baptists support Catholic bishops statement on Greens
The President of the Baptist Union of NSW, Mr Frank Willis, today endorsed a statement issued by Cardinal George Pell and nine NSW Catholic bishops warning voters of the radical anti-Christian policy agenda of the NSW Greens ahead of this Saturday's state election.