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Victoria’s Labor Party has voted down Fiona Patten’s Health Legislation Amendment (Conscientious Objection) Bill which aimed to expand abortion access by preventing publicly funded hospitals from refusing to perform abortions. The bill would have also forced all taxpayer-funded hospitals -- including those with religious affiliations [...]

The Restoring Territory Rights Bill, which plans to overturn the 25-year-old ban on euthanasia legislation in the Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory, was passed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday 3 August, 99 votes to 37. The private member's bill was briefly debated [...]

Victorian MP Fiona Patten is pushing a new bill that aims to take away the rights of publicly funded hospitals with religious affiliations to refuse to perform abortions and euthanasia. The state’s current laws allow women to access an abortion up to 24 weeks into [...]

Catholic bishops in the United States have condemned the passing of the Democrats' new attempt to slide taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand into law. House Democrats succeeded in moving their latest manifestation of abortion legislation through to the next round, after the House of Representatives approved bill H.R. [...]

The fact that Scott Morrison lost the recent federal election is all the more “miraculous” (let the reader understand) when one considers that Anthony Albanese failed so spectacularly throughout the entire campaign; not knowing the current unemployment and cash rate, being unable to relate his [...]

In a tragic development for pro-life groups around the country, New South Wales has become the last state in Australia to pass assisted dying legislation. The bill passed the NSW Upper House after a lengthy debate and the amendments were accepted by the Lower House. [...]

A young friend's life and death in the loving care of her family is a demonstration of how life is worth living despite suffering and loss. Euthanasia, or assisted suicide, is an overly simplistic answer to the natural human experience of suffering and death. We [...]

Many SA parliamentarians betrayed the public last year by waving through horrendous anti-life legislation. This Saturday's SA election is our chance to hold them accountable and elect leaders who will stand with society's most vulnerable. Voting for Life in the SA Election The South Australian [...]

Editor's Note: We are republishing this excellent piece from November 2020, to encourage readers to make more discerning choices during upcoming elections. The author Tom Kenyon is standing for the Upper House in South Australia's Parliament, representing Family First. ___ How many times have we [...]

As the New South Wales Parliament debates the Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Bill, we review why euthanasia and assisted suicide are fundamentally wrong, eroding our society's care and concern for the elderly, disabled, mentally ill and vulnerable. As I write, the Parliament of New South [...]

Euthanasia is set to be debated in NSW in the next few months. Please sign and share this petition to tell the state's upper house that we value life and want to see the vulnerable protected. We need your help. Within months, euthanasia will be [...]

What happens to our society when we remove the supporting pillars or load-bearing wall of Christian ethics? Are we destroying the foundations of our common home? Many years ago, hubby and I decided to make our old home ‘open plan’. It was where Ivan had [...]

Australian pro-life group Cherish Life Queensland opposes vaccine mandates. Vaccination must be left to individual choice, they say, since Covid-19 vaccines rely on cell lines derived from aborted foetal tissue. We have been asked our position on the Covid-19 vaccines many times over the previous [...]

We are more than halfway through our month of Prayer and Fasting for Family and Nation, and there are many things we are praying for. One prayer we did not expect to see answered so dramatically is that the euthanasia bill, recently tabled in the [...]

With euthanasia once again before the New South Wales Parliament, it is critical that Christians understand the worldview that underpins perspectives that support abortion and euthanasia. An Interesting Experiment During an emergency drill at work, a smoke machine was set off in our printer room [...]

Revivalist Lou Engels says, “You should look for the answers to corporate days of prayer and fasting in the headlines of secular newspapers.” We have been quoting these words often in recent times because they increasingly ring true. Last Friday, the Canberra Declaration launched the [...]

In a tragic development in the fight for life, the Queensland parliament has voted overwhelmingly to support new euthanasia laws. Nonetheless, while the results are hugely disappointing, Christians were at the forefront of the opposition to the bill. On Thursday afternoon, sixty-one members of parliament [...]

God's favour is always with us, even in the midst of suffering and trial. These are certainly trying times for the Body of Christ, what with the ongoing restrictions due to the pandemic, and there seeming to be no end in sight, particularly for those [...]

This article can be summarised in three questions: First, how did we as Christians arrive at this state of being in a “culture war”? Second, as the culture has drifted so far from us, what do we have left to us and what do we [...]

Munganbana Norman Miller, Convenor of the Voice of First Nations Peoples Against Euthanasia, said from Cairns today: “We need to protect our elders, First Nations and others, from the Queensland government’s plans to legalise euthanasia in the form of Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation, and I [...]