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LABOR SHORTEN

FamilyVoice Australia is questioning the ALP’s decision at its National Conference on Monday to continue to push for the removal of gender from official documents.

Despite cleverly wording the push as simply a “review” of gender rules for official documents, the cultural Marxist agenda influencing Labor to legitimize so-called “transgenderism” is clear.

In October, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said his government would not remove gender from official documents.

“No, no … it’s nonsense, no plans to do that,” Mr Shorten told reporters.

“We’ve got no plans to change that (gender on documents),” he said.

“We were repeatedly told before and during the plebiscite that redefining marriage had no consequences,” said FamilyVoice National Director Charles Newington.

“And yet, a year after gender was removed from marriage, the ALP is seeking to remove gender in society more broadly,” said Mr Newington.

“Bill Shorten must stand up to the radicals in the Labor movement and give voters an iron-clad guarantee that a government under his watch will not remove gender from official documents such as birth certificates and passports.

"For obvious international identification and medical reasons birth certificates and passports should be reliable records of the biological sex of a person.”

For more information, contact Charles Newington on 0412 163 862.

REFUGEES

FamilyVoice Australia has slammed Labor’s commitment to expand Australia’s refugee intake, especially as it promises to funnel $500 million to the United Nation’s refugee agency that has a well-known bias against Christian refugees.

“In 2015 and 2016, the United Nations High Commision for Refugees (UNHCR) selected 6,444 refugees from the Middle East for resettlement in Australia. Twelve percent were Christian — just 782 people,” said FamilyVoice National Secretary David d'Lima.

“Under the Coalition government, the Department of Immigration and Border Protection prioritised religious minorities in the Middle East, particularly Christians.

“According the New York Times, 78 percent of the approximately 18,563 refugees from Syria and Iraq granted entry from mid 2015 to early 2016 were Christians.

“Christians in parts of the Middle East face heavy persecution and are under continual threat of being wiped out.

“In 2015, Labor immigration spokesman Shayne Neumann mouthed support for ‘a non-discriminatory immigration program’, in opposition to the Coalition desire to bring in Christian refugees, which aimed to offset the UN program’s bias against Christians.

“FamilyVoice opposes increasing the refugee intake under any Government that refuses to protect the most vulnerable. Indeed, Australia should fund an intake it can afford, and the current level of 16,250 is about right.”

For more information, contact David d'Lima on 0414 969 145.

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A federal Labor bill to undermine religious freedoms enjoyed by faith-based schools failed to pass the senate last week, but the legislation still remains a threat. It's an issue the Parliament will consider in the new year.​

The legislation to remove faith-based exemptions was pushed by Labor on the basis of a discredited notion that same-sex attracted students suffer discrimination at faith-based schools.

South Australian Liberal Senator David Fawcett, a strong advocate for religious freedom, explained his concerns about the legislation:

“The Labor bill modified Section 37 of the Sex Discrimination Act (SDA) which deals with religious bodies (churches, synagogues, temples and mosques) as opposed to religious schools (educational religious bodies - Section 38). The Labor bill would expose someone providing education within a religious body (eg: a course or seminar run by a Church, and potentially even teaching on a Sunday morning from the pulpit) to the provisions of the SDA.

This creates the possibility that a priest or pastor who taught the accepted view of a Church that God created people male and female or that marriage was between a man and a woman could be hauled before a Discrimination tribunal in the same way Jason Tey (a Perth based photographer) was recently, just for stating his belief.”

Senator Fawcett added that the Labor Bill “represents an unprecedented attack on religious freedom, and freedoms more broadly (speech and association) that have always underpinned Australia’s successful plural democracy.”

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FamilyVoice Australia       MEDIA RELEASE     4 December 2018

Parliament must strengthen, not weaken, protections for the unborn

FamilyVoice Australia urges both the parliament and the people to reject the abortion reform bill as “a excruciating and heartless attack on unborn children”.

FamilyVoice National Director Charles Newington said the unborn are society’s most vulnerable members and must be safeguarded.

“Unborn babies should not be treated as any less human just because they have not yet passed through the birth canal,” he said.

“They feel the excruciating pain of abortion and mothers frequently report physical harm and mental anguish following the procedure.

“In any abortion not just the child dies in its mother's womb.

Especially in late term abortions something else dies in the mother's heart” he said.

“Parliament must also recognise the medical advancements that have reduced the age of surviving premature birth to about 23 weeks which is a clear indication of the child's full humanity. It's past time for moral leadership on this issue. Reject the Bill. Protect mother and child. Find a better way."

For more information, contact David d'Lima on 0414 969 145.

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A Tasmanian bill which would allow parents to refuse to list a child’s gender on their birth certificate has been deferred until March next year.

If the legislation were to be passed, persons 16 or older will also be able to legally change their gender on their birth certificate by simply filling out a statutory declaration.

Before and during the plebiscite, we were told repeatedly that there would be no adverse consequences to redefining marriage. And yet, just a year after removing gender from marriage, LGBT activists are seeking to remove gender from society altogether.

The good news is we still have time to fight this radical Tasmanian proposal!