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You may have heard/read comments, many of them hostile, about Australian anti-porn campaigner Melinda Tankard Reist flying thick and fast in recent days. This attention was generated in the wake of her "outing" as a pro-life feminist with alleged connections to Canberra's Belconnen Baptist Church, which to atheist bloggers and tweeters appeared to indicate MTR …
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Romans 12:3 In last week's sermon we saw how, in Romans 12:1-2, Paul commends a positive attitude toward God in God's attitude toward the world, and a negative attitude toward the world in its opposition to God, as the basis of Christian discipleship. There is great power in those words, and surprise, and challenge. But …
In a win for decency and sanity, the federal Classification Review Board has unanimously decided to classify the “torture porn” film The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) as Refused Classification, meaning the film cannot be sold, hired or advertised in Australia. Earlier this year, the board gave the film an R18+ classification, despite the fact …
As the father of a teenager, I was very interested in the findings of a new survey published this week, which highlight the intensifying pressures teenagers face, and who’s there to help when things go wrong. Mission Australia’s 10th National Survey of Young Australians asked 46,000 young people to rank 15 issues according to which …
The surprise move this week by the Gillard Government to replace Labor’s Harry Jenkins with the Liberals’ Peter Slipper as Speaker of the House of Representatives has led to speculation that the deal struck between independent MP Andrew Wilkie and Prime Minister Julia Gillard to introduce mandatory pre-commitment technology for poker machines is off. But …
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