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Confirmed: Australian Christian Lobby made a call to stay out of the Voice debate

Posted on 25/10/2023 by John Sandeman
Wendy Francis ACL National Director Politics

It must have been tempting for the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), which has built up a large supporter base of people mostly on the political right, to join the “No” campaign that polls had suggested for months would win. It… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Australian christian lobby, Christian news, The Voice
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Time to be a good loser

Posted on 14/10/2023 by John Sandeman
Yes logo

It is time to practise what the writer/scholar John Dickson, himself a “Yes” voter, suggested Christians should become better at – being a good loser. “No group in society should be better losers, more cheerful sufferers, than followers of the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, The Voice

National sins, collective guilt: how Presbyterian hero John Dunmore Lang acknowledged Aboriginal dispossession

Posted on 18/09/2023 by John Sandeman
John Dunmore Lang

An excerpt from John Dunmore Lang’s Sermon National sins, the cause and precursors of national judgments  Preached in Scots church Sydney in 1838. Lang is often regarded as the father of the Presbyterian Church in Australia. It stands with Baptist… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, First nations, Presbyterians, The Voice

The Anglican Marks of Mission and the Voice to Parliament

Posted on 09/09/2023 by Peter Sandeman
Three flags of Australia

Opinion: On The Other Cheek, we welcome “the other twin,” Peter Sandeman writing on the Voice. He is Canon for Social Justice in the diocese of Adelaide. Now that the referendum is approaching and the contending arguments have been coloured… Continue Reading →

Latest, News, Opinion Anglicans, Christian news, First nations, The Voice

Tim Costello: Let’s heed the lessons of history from Botany Bay to Uluru

Posted on 02/09/2023 by John Sandeman

An open letter from Rev Tim Costello to church leaders on the Voice This week marks the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech. Those prophetic words for all Americans are now etched in history. Less… Continue Reading →

Latest, News, Opinion Christian news, First nations, The Voice
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Bad reasons to vote ‘No’ (a list for people leaning ‘No’)

Posted on 30/08/2023 by John Sandeman
Three flags of Australia
Latest, News Christian news, The Voice

A short primer on the voice

Posted on 23/08/2023 by John Sandeman
Three flags of Australia

Lawyer Peter Cooper gives a reality check. A short primer on the Voice: This is not esoteric or philosophical. It is just the structure of the Voice Amendment, its place in the Constitution, its structural place in the Constitution. *… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, First nations, The Voice
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Both sides now: ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ cases for the Voice from Christian leaders at a church debate

Posted on 14/08/2023 by John Sandeman
Three flags of Australia

What do indigenous people mean by the word “spiritual” in the Uluru Statement from the Heart became a significant talking point in a discussion on the Voice hosted by Hoxton Park Anglican Church in southwest Sydney. The video of the… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, First nations, The Voice
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Peter Dutton, Rehoboam, Jeroboam, Kanishka Raffel and ‘the voice’

Posted on 12/04/2023 by John Sandeman
Larissa Minniecon on QandA (with her father Ray on the left)

An Obadiah Slope column. Obadiah is curious to know if Peter Dutton was away the week they studied 1 Kings or 2 Chronicles at his alma mater, St Paul’s Anglican School, Bald Hills. But Dutton would have learned a valuable… Continue Reading →

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