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Election 2025: Both major parties promise religious freedom won’t go backwards

Posted on 23/04/2025 by John Sandeman
Freedom for Faith logo

Christian legal thinktank Freedom For Faith (FFF) reports positive commitments on religious freedom from both major parties in response to letters from religious leaders. “The responses received are encouraging,” FFF’s Mike Southon has messaged supporters. He desribed the responses as… Continue Reading →

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Change the Conversion Practices Act: NSW Council of Churches asks Premier Minns to keep his promise on prayer

Posted on 16/04/2025 by John Sandeman
Monica Doumit

The NSW Council of Churches (NSWCC) has written to the NSW Premier, Chris Minns asking action under Conversion Practices Ban Act 2024 which came into effect this month, be paused, pending a review of the new law. “We request that… Continue Reading →

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Conversion Act protest needs to be targeted carefully

Posted on 15/04/2025 by John Sandeman

NSW has now joined Victoria in having a Conversion Act come into operation that bans some forms of Christian ministry. The Conversion Practices Ban Act 2024 No 19 aims to “aims to “ban practices directed to changing or suppressing the… Continue Reading →

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The Election viewed from the ACL

Posted on 28/03/2025 by John Sandeman
MIchelle Pearse

The Other Cheek interviewed the CEO of the Australian Christian Lobby, Michelle Pearse. By coincidence, we chose the day PM Anthony Albanese called the poll. The Other Cheek: My general question is, what should Christians pay attention to in this… Continue Reading →

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‘Infringes faith freedoms:’ Anglicans protest Greens’ abortion bill

Posted on 24/03/2025 by John Sandeman
Abortion Protest march 2025

Faith-based health organisations and individuals will face a moral dilemma of directly participalting in abortion services or leaving their jobs, if a bill before the NSW parliament is passed, according to a statement by the Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney… Continue Reading →

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Christians get involved in the federal election

Posted on 20/03/2025 by John Sandeman
Freedom for Faith logo

Two initiatives by the Freedom For Faith (FFF)think tank make it easy for Christians to get involved in the upcoming – not-sure-quite-when – federal election. “As I write, over 70 churches are planning to hold a candidate forum for their… Continue Reading →

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I bought a globe. You should too.

Posted on 19/03/2025 by John Sandeman
globe

Michael Kellahan Executive Director of Gafcon (Global Anglican Future Conference) Australia on being globally aware. I bought a beaten-up second-hand globe from a charity shop for $12. It looks a bit faded and fragile, but it does the job. It… Continue Reading →

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Mark Leach, co-founder of ‘Never Again is Now’ on leaving church ministry.

Posted on 12/03/2025 by John Sandeman

When Mark Leach, then the senior minister of Rozelle Anglican Church in inner Sydney, heard of a pro-Palestinian demonatration being held in the CBD within a couple of days of the massacre and kidnappings of October 7, 2023 he protested… Continue Reading →

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Christian school with a tax debt owes teachers their pay

Posted on 01/03/2025 by John Sandeman
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Brindabella Christian College in Canberra receives $10m a year from the federal government but owes the tax office $8m and has been unable to pay teachers’ wages. At Senate estimates “Education department officials were asked to explain how a private… Continue Reading →

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An Aussie at the ARC conference

Posted on 22/02/2025 by John Sandeman
Jordan Peterson at ARC 2025

Karl Faase, host of the new Encounter testimony video series tells The Other Cheek about attending the ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) conference in London that attracted many Christians among an audience of leaders concerned with the future of Western… Continue Reading →

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