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Currently before the NSW Parliament Upper House is the: Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019 An Act about reforming the law relating to terminations of pregnancies and regulating the conduct of health practitioners in relation to terminations. This bill should be retitled as: Ensuring Access [...]

The big social morality issues facing our nation currently, as all readers of the Daily Declaration will know, are Euthanasia/Physician Assisted Suicide (EPAS), now re-titled as Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD); abortion, now re-titled Reproductive Health Care Reform; transgenderism; the absent care of babies “accidentally” born [...]

Dear Friend, Once again it all seems overwhelming, and it is a time for miracles. Yes, to make our voices heard on earth, but also in Heaven, realising we wage war against principalities and unseen powers (yes, I know, Ephesians 6), praying that the Hosts [...]

The Cove is a haunting movie about dolphins. Dolphins appeal to everyone with their gracefulness, intelligence, ability to communicate, and apparent sense of family and community. It also seems that they have a natural desire to please, an instinctive trust and, it would seem from [...]

Dear friend, as outlined in a previous article, our freedom to believe, to speak of that which we believe – yes, even around the kitchen table – to teach that which we believe, and have it taught in our chosen educational facilities by teachers that [...]

"Hate speech" needs to be defined with respect to the Israel Folau saga. It can be defined as “abusive or threatening speech or writing against a particular group”, but as with many other terms that have been hijacked by LGBT ideology, this is also equated [...]

“Traditional” medicine is under attack on many interrelated fronts, perhaps broadly represented in summary by these specific but interrelated front lines. Liberty of Conscience in Medicine The exercise of conscience is foundational to good medicine. It underlies every aspect of good medical practice, to make [...]

To my praying friends. A three-year respite from the relentless march of evil. To plan and implement strategy. This is an outline to pray. During which time the church has a chance to repent, to become a “confessing church”, a united church. If we do [...]

Assisted suicide became legal in the Australian state of Victoria Jun 19, 2019. See excellent article by Xavier Symons. This article highlights the fact that in some studies euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide is requested for pain relief in only about a quarter of people, with [...]

When governments deliberately introduce legislation that permit evil – and even to compel it – shame is appropriate and needful. The trouble is that the parliamentary members who introduce such legislation – particularly when the issue at stake is the intrinsic value of human life [...]

Those who refuse to engage in civil discourse have perfected the art of name-calling and labelling to discredit their political opponents before a view can even be expressed. So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, [...]

The Fear-of-God builds up confidence, and makes a world safe for your children. -- Prov 14:26 The Message Which policies may we put into the category of “unsafe” for our children, and what defines this choosing? Which policies show a lack of respect for and [...]

Oh dear! Following on from my last article with the comment by Jerry Bridges “there was a time when committed Christians were known as God-fearing people… a badge of honour”, we need to make more of the fear-of-God. To have a healthy Fear-of-God is a [...]

Help us Lord God – as we think of Gallipoli and Villers-Bretonneux and Passchendaele and Fromelles and Bullecourt and Pozieres – and so many other places such as Burma and Vietnam – help us as we feel that grief to also feel and know enormous [...]

If only!! There was a time when the fear of God meant something, “when committed Christians were known as God-fearing people. This was a badge of honour.” (Jerry Bridges). What does it mean? It is much more than simply being scared and has been described [...]