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Five years ago, Florida voters amended their state constitution to guarantee the rights of a previously unprotected class: pregnant pigs. Specifically, the ballot initiative guaranteed pregnant [...]

The following is a submission by the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life (of which Life Ministries is a member) to the Consultation Committee appointed by the Western Australian Government to [...]

In a media release on 6 June 2007, the State Director and Senate Candidate for the Christian Democratic Party in Western Australia, Gerard Goiran, expressed support for the stance taken by [...]

On Wednesday, 6 December 2006 the Prohibition of Human Cloning for Reproduction and the Regulation of Human Embryo Research Amendment Bill 2006 passed the House of Representatives. Senator Kay [...]

The word referendum comes from Latin meaning something referred (to the citizens for a decision). Australians have always viewed referenda as constituting the most direct means for expressing the [...]

Many people would be aware of a survey the Democrats launched several months ago to look at the role of religion in politics. Of course, given the secular bias of the Democrats, the real purpose [...]

Two thousand people from across Victoria gathered on the steps of Parliament House in Spring St on Tuesday 8 August to hear 13 speakers express their concern about the impact of Victoria’s Racial [...]

Homosexuals won a major victory in May with the passage of the Civil Unions Bill 2006 through the parliament of the Australian Capital Territory. The new legislation gives official recognition to [...]

In 2004, the Federal Coalition Government amended the Marriage Act 1961 to define marriage as “the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life”. [...]

On the afternoon of 16 January 2005 Western Australian Premier, Dr Geoff Gallop announced that he was resigning his position because he was suffering from severe depression. He said, “It is my [...]