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Legality won’t change brothels’ dark side
Monday, June 21, 2010
“WA Attorney-General Christian Porter thinks he can clean up the sex trade by making it legal,” former Perth madam Linda Watson said today. “Tell him he’s dreaming!”
FamilyVoice appeals Salo ruling
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
FamilyVoice Australia has today filed an appeal in the Federal Court against the decision of the Classification Review Board to classify as R18+ the child abuse and torture film Salo or 120 Days in Sodom.
WA Attorney-General fails to persuade on brothel law
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
FamilyVoice Australia has pointed out serious weaknesses in the WA Barnett government’s plan for legal brothels in red light districts across the state.
Major error in Senate report on paid parental leave: total income tax ignored!
Monday, June 7, 2010
"The 3 June Senate report on the Paid Parental Leave Bill contains a major error,” Richard Egan, FamilyVoice Australia policy officer, said today.
TV watchdog takes eight months to bite – with no teeth!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
"Why did it take eight months for the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to decide about an episode of Packed to the Rafters last September – and then impose no penalty, even though Channel 7 had breached several sections of the TV Code?”
WA euthanasia bill puts vulnerable people at risk
Friday, May 21, 2010
FamilyVoice Australia has warned that the euthanasia bill to be introduced in the WA Legislative Council today by Greens MP Robin Chapple would put the lives of vulnerable elderly, disabled and sick people at grave risk.
Salo decision goes so low
Thursday, May 6, 2010
“Yesterday’s confirmation of the R18+ rating for the DVD of Salo – Pasolini’s film revelling in teen torture and sex abuse – hits a new low in Australian classification decisions,” FamilyVoice national policy officer Richard Egan said today.
Bishop Michael Nazir Ali: The legal threat to our spiritual tradition
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The McFarlane judgment raises fundamental questions about church and state, says Michael Nazir-Ali.
There's a hole in your bucket, dear Henry!
Monday, May 3, 2010
“There is an ideological black hole in Ken Henry’s tax reform report released yesterday,” said Ros Phillips, national research officer for FamilyVoice Australia. “The Treasury boss’s report contains the equivalent of an outer space vacuum cleaner. It aims to suck up and make financially unviable many of the families where mum stays home to give her babies the best possible care.”
Thank God for Lord Carey
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
In an unprecedented move, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, and other church leaders are calling upon senior judges to stand down from future hearings involving cases of religious discrimination because of the judges’ perceived bias against Christianity.
The battle for the SA upper house
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The SA upper house election on Saturday is looming as a key battleground, with major parties competing with minor parties and many independent candidates.
FamilyVoice: asking the hard questions before the SA election
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
"This year we have again sent surveys to all contactable candidates in the SA state election 2010," said FamilyVoice SA state officer David d’Lima.
No justice for caring mums!
Monday, March 8, 2010
"Tony Abbott has chosen International Women’s Day to turn his back on the majority of women," said FamilyVoice Australia research officer Ros Phillips.
Violent games make violent kids
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Research published yesterday by the American Psychological Association, analysing 130 studies worldwide, has proved conclusively that exposure to violent computer games affects youth behaviour.
Julia Gillard, please note: new study shows abstinence education works best
Friday, February 5, 2010
A US study published this week has found that abstinence-only sex education was significantly more effective than "safer sex" programs in delaying sexual activity.
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali: immigrants should accept Britain’s Christian values
Thursday, January 14, 2010
All new immigrants should accept Britain’s traditional Christian values and be willing to adapt to them, according to a prominent clergyman.
Tougher laws on child pornography welcomed
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
FamilyVoice Australia has welcomed the recommendation of the NSW Child Pornography Working Party that child pornography laws be strengthened by removing the defence of artistic merit.
Prove it's not porn: artists told
Sunday, January 10, 2010
PAINTERS and photographers will no longer be able to rely on a defence of artistic merit under an overhaul of child pornography laws.
Win for adopted children
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Adopted children, like other children, do best when raised by a mother and a father.
Smacking study finds what parents already know
Monday, January 4, 2010
Smacking can be beneficial – as most parents know
FamilyVoice Australia - Media Release - 4 January 2010
We need a shared story to underpin our national life
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Our future leaders must be taught selflessness in place of greed, and service in place of arrogance, says Michael Nazir-Ali.
ACMA’s nasty Christmas present for Aussie families
Friday, December 18, 2009
Explicit pornography will be allowed on commercial television from 1 January, under the new Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice approved today by ACMA.
Controversial New Study Strongly Links Child Porn Use and Child Abuse
Friday, December 11, 2009
A recent study performed by psychologists among inmates of the Bureau of Prisons suggests a strong link between the use of child pornography and child abuse.
South Australia victory on euthanasia
Monday, December 7, 2009
On 18 November the SA Legislative Council rejected the Greens euthanasia bill, 11 votes to 9. The final vote stunned the parliament, especially Greens MP Mark Parnell, who had earlier anticipated a vote in favour of euthanasia.
Nine’s Underbelly breaches TV Code - again
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has ruled that Channel Nine’s controversial Underbelly program has again breached the TV Code of Practice.
An affront to democracy
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Brennan Report drives a coach and horses through our legal and constitutional framework, says George Brandis.
Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.
Battlelines
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
What's next for the conservative side of politics? Where are new battlelines to be drawn?
Religion laws don't have a prayer in a country with robust common sense
Saturday, April 18, 2009
This week we have heard about an increasing international trend to prosecute religious issues in the courts. In Britain cases are being brought under laws such as the Religious Hatred Act, which makes it a crime to "stir up" "religious hatred". British police have even warned that insulting Scientology would be treated as a crime.



 
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