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In this issue: Poll position? Which way forward for TAS?... 'Sanctity of life' motion defeated in Senate... Highlights from our religious freedom submission... Cultural Leadership Symposium UK - preparing for the next horizon... Deeper wisdom shapes generations... Transgender swim night 'divisive'... Revitalised in Witness - lessons from the '59 Billy Graham Crusade.

PORNOGRAPHY AND MARRIAGE: HEALING THE HURT. By Andrew and Kathryn.         Ten years into her marriage with Andrew, Kathryn found out about her husband's pornography addiction. It was devastating - for both of them.     Andrew and Kathryn shared with VoxPoint their sturggle and hourney out of porn.

In this issue: FamilyVoice testifies at end of life choices hearing... Kids' rights cannot be traded away... 'Sanctity of life' motion defeated in Senate... Highlights from our religious freedom submission... Cultural Leadership Symposium UK - preparing for the next horizon... Deeper wisdom shapes generations... Transgender swim night 'divisive'... Revitalised in Witness - lessons from the '59 Billy Graham Crusade.

EIGHT MODERN MYTHS ABOUT MARRIAGE. By Kevin Andrews. Edited extract from Maybe 'I do': Modern Marriage & The Pursuit of Happiness. ConnorCourt Publishing, 2012.         A few years ago, a high profile female television news anchor wrote a stinging attack on mentors from her mother's eneration. Approaching 40, "childless and angry", Virginia Haussegger criticised those who suggested her generation could ahve it all. 

'Yes' voters celebrate with explicit mural... NSW victory against kill bill... New euthanasia push in ACT, QLD, TAS... Schools religious freedoms under threat... Conscientious freedom isn't discrimination... We are stirred, but not shaken!... 'For we are Dumb and Policed'... Freedoms report due in March.

PROSTITUTION: WHICH LAWS PROTECT WOMEN? By Roslyn Phillips, B Sc, DipEd, National Research Officer, FamilyVoice Australia.         "Funerals are what I hate most," says Linda Watson.     Linda, a former prostitute and madam, now runs Linda's House of Hope - a rescue ministry for those trapped in the sex trade as she once was. Linda has saved hundreds of women since her House of Hope opened in Perth in August 1999. But she remains deeply troubled by deaths - by drug overdose, murder or suicide - of women who have called for help too late.

New euthanasia push in QLD, ACT, TAS... Half of QLD voters want abortion illegal: poll... Toowoomba spearheads 'porn free city'... QLD election survey surprise... Queensland Labor 'Safe Schools' agenda appears 'fluid'... Conscientious freedom isn't discrimination... We are stirred, but not shaken!... 'For we are Dumb and Policed'... Freedoms report due in March.

HOMOSEXUALITY: THE HEALTH RISKS. WARNING: This article contains some explicit descriptions. By Roslyn Phillips, B Sc, DipEd, National Research Officer, FamilyVoice Australia.         In 1994, a NSW regional newspaper published a letter to the editor from a doctor who outlined medical problems disproportionately linked with male homosexual activity. They included HIV/AIDS and anal cancer.     Some homosexual activists then lodged a complaint of homosexual vilification with the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board. The Board accepted the complaint. It demanded that the doctor and the newspaper editor justify the publication of the letter.

Police reject 'foolhardy' South Australian brothel bill... Freedom under threat in Northern Territory... New euthanasia push in ACT, QLD, TAS... Right to lineage for donor kids... SES units in state of emergency... Conscientious freedom isn't discrimination... We are stirred, but not shaken!... 'For we are Dumb and Policed'... Freedoms review.

THE TEN BLESSINGS. By Vishal Mangalwadi. Edited extract from Truth and Transformation.         These days, the Ten Commandments God gave Moses on Mount Sinai are sometimes seen as burdensome and irrelevant. Not so, says Indian Christian scholar Vishal Mangalwadi: they are Ten Blessings. We should not lightly discard them.     In 1977 a group of "low caste", "untouchable" young people asked me for help. A minor flood in their village had washed away their homes and cattle. My friends showed me the pride of their village - a temple in the middle of the river, built 1000 years ago. I said, "Our forefathers had the ability to build this temple in the middle of a river. It has withstood hundreds of floods. Why didn't they use that ability to build houses on the banks of the river that could withstand floods?

Kill bill to strike 2018 election... Schools religious freedoms under threat... New euthanasia push in ACT, QLD, TAS... Hobart worldview academy seeks new reformation... Victorian schools push sex education... Changing lives... Conscientious freedom isn't discrimination... We are stirred, but not shaken!... 'For we are Dumb and Policed'... Freedoms report due in March.