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PM Gillard's video address to Christians to be uploaded on Australia Votes website

The Australian Christian Lobby will upload footage of its interview with Prime Minister Julia Gillard to its Australiavotes.org.au website tomorrow evening..

  • Party responses to key issues of concern promoted to one million Christians

    With little more than two weeks to go until the Federal election, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today launched a website – promoted by a million flyers and booklets sent to churches throughout Australia – informing Christians about the different political party standpoints on key issues they care about.

  • Website displaying Party standpoint on key issues to be launched

    With little more than two weeks to go until the Federal election, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) will launch a website informing Christians about the different political party standpoints on key issues they care about on Thursday, August 5.

  • ACL: Artistic experience is no excuse to exploit children

    Claims of artistic merit should never be seen as a satisfactory excuse for exploiting children, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) said today.

  • Dr Gordon Moyes on the High Costs of Gambling

    Parliamentary Leader of Family First NSW, Dr Gordon Moyes advises the Racing Industry is proposing a huge new gambling extension to repay $150 million that it will borrow from the State Government. Dr Gordon Moyes states \"I am opposed to the Racing Industry being allowed to enact any sort of extension to gambling because of the adverse high cost to the community.\"

  • Family First: Australian Sex Party preference deal is an attempt to discredit us

    Family First's Federal Chairman and State Chairman have denied reports of the party entering a preference arrangement with the Australian Sex Party, and labelling the claim from the Sex Party to be "an attempt to discredit Family First and to undercut the supporters of Family First\".

  • Senate candidate: country people are treated as second class citizens

    Queensland Family First senate candidate Wendy Francis is angry at the lack of basic health services in regional and rural Queensland and has vowed to do something about it.

  • Family First NSW announce lead candidate for Senate

    Greg Swane, Senate candidate of Family First NSW raises the question, "Who is determining political debate in Australia? Is it Julia Gillard and Tony Abbot, or Wilbur and Wilamena?" "How tragic it is", Greg says, "that the timing and content of a debate between our leaders is dictated by a cooking program! Why have our political leaders allowed issues of national importance to become dreary, boring and unimportant?"

  • Increase in children sexually abusing children sparks call for review of classification system

    In the face of new evidence of the increasing levels of children sexually abusing other children the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) today called for both major political parties to immediately commit to a comprehensive review of the classification system across all media.

  • It's time for a humane, bipartisan approach to the treatment of asylum seekers

    Asylum seekers are people in need of care and not to be feared, say Australian Churches.

  • Declaration calling for Christian values in Australia announced at Parliament House

    Canberra Declaration, a document declaring the reliance of Australian citizens\' trust on God and importance of Christian values to the wellbeing of the Australian society will be be released at the Government of God Conference on the Parliament House lawn in Canberra on Friday, July 23.

  • Dr Gordon Moyes Opposes Adoption Amendment (Same Sex) Bill 2010

    In July 2009, a Parliamentary Inquiry conducted by the NSW Standing Committee on Law and Justice recommended that same-sex couples be enabled to adopt children. There was an enormous outcry from the public in response, with many thousands of signed petitions being received from citizens across New South Wales beseeching the government not to permit such a thing, as children have the fundamental right to be raised by a mother and a father, biological or adoptive. That was not the end of it, howev