Tony Abbott today takes time out today from responding the 25 to 50 media inquiries his office receives daily to do something that is really important - write an opinion piece about how people should stop picking on him for being Christian.  As usual it is a vast conspiracy from the Left-liberal media to cast […]

The Australian Electoral Commission released this week its list of political donations.  The Australian has an article on the key givers:
Craig Winkler and Dan Daniels may not be household names, but they are among the emerging tycoons who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to bankroll the Christian conservative Family First’s party high-profile entry […]

It appears that after washing around on the blogosphere for a couple of days, including a mention by frequent commenter Lance (I would link the thread, but can’t figure out what post it was on), the advertiser has caught on to the email to Family First supporters worrying that homosexual behaviour would be “normalised” as […]

The gap between the federal government and Family First widens as Family First senator Steve Fielding states that he will vote against the IR changes because they do not protect overtime and public holidays, thereby undermining the family life. This of course puts the ball firmly in the court of everybody’s favourite court jester, […]

Phil just alerted me to this article from the herald sun reporting that an application by Mornington Baptist Church for an exemption from anti-discrimination provisions so as to allow them to advertise for jobs with community caring, a church charity has failed. The church wanted to advertise for applicants who were baptised, practising Christians […]

In this post (which may take the prize as the comments thread with the most different topics discussed) a discussion has developed regarding the question of what makes a person “fit to lead” in a church context. We often talk about whether someone’s personal morality (particularly sexual morality) as a qualification for leadership but […]

Ian Harper is the head of the new fair pay commission (which is amazing seeing as we don’t even have legislation on this yet). Anyway, he apparently is guided by God as to how this will work:
“I’ll be praying for wisdom … praying for courage and praying above all that God’s will is being […]

Another swipe at the church from a right wing commentator buried in this Paul Kelly article about why the minimum wage must be abolished reformed:
(The intellectual failure of the churches to accept the moral foundations of a market economy and market-based mechanisms to deliver equity dooms them to a historic marginalisation. When on earth will […]

Interesting article from the Australian discussing the recent rush by the press for quotes from religious leaders on topics such as the changes to the industrial relations regime and the debate over the mining of uranium. Morrow concludes:
That churches have started to weigh in on various political controversies is not surprising, but it is […]

Ed Husic was the Labor party candidate for the federal seat of Greenway in the last election and in this article describes how the fact that he was a muslim featured prominantly in the campaign against him:
Another thing I noticed was interest shown in my name by sections of the Liberal Party. Labor campaign workers […]