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In this issue: It's time to stand up for your faith...Cleanfeed letter presented to the PM - thank you!...Vulnerable Australians need your voice on these issues...Come join us and be inspired!...Thank you for your support...From the National Director.

FAMILYVOICE AND THE CULTURAL COMMISSION. By Dr David Phillips BSc, MSc, PhD, Tha.        Rick Warren's book, The Purpose Driven Life, is one of the best-selling non-fiction books of all time. It topped the Wall Street Journal best-seller charts as well as Publisher's Weekly charts with over 30 million copies in print by 2006. Why? Why has it been so successful?

DO PARLIAMENTS NEED UPPER HOUSES? By Roslyn Phillips BSc, DipEd and Richard Egan BA, GradDipLibSc.        Australia's federal parliament is bicameral ("two chambered"). It has two houses - a lower house called the House of Representatives and an upper house called the Senate. Legislation must be passed by both houses, and signed by the Governor-General, before it can become law.

In this issue: Visit our new website!...Scott Morrison is rasing a voice for our children...What's on your mind?...Thank you!...From the National Director.

THE 'TRANSGENDER' PROBLEM. By Roslyn Phillips BSc, DipEd.        In 1967 the parents of baby Bruce Reimer, whose penis had been destroyed in a botched circumcision, turned for help to Dr John Money at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr Money advised them to have their son raised as a girl. Bruce was renamed "Brenda". Surgeons castrated him and fashioned an artifical vagina. He was dressed as a girl and given female hormones.

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM UNDER ATTACK. By Richard Egan BA, GradDipLibSc.       It seems to happen every ten years. Governments, or government-appointed bodies, think it is time to launch another attack on freedom of religion in Australia. They never call it an "attack", of course - it is usually dressed up, like a wolf in sheep's clothing, as an "extension" of our religious freedom. Christians need to be aware of these past attacks so they can remain vigilant now and in the future. 

HOME EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA. By Terry Harding BA, DipEd, DipCDP, MEd, MACE. Manager, Schools Department, Christian Education Ministries; home educator for 15 years with wife Diane; former principal of the Australian Christian Academy.       In all Australian states and territories and across the Western world, especially the US, Europe, NZ and South Africa, increasing numbers of parents are choosing to educate their own children at home. The home education movement has flourished over the past 30 years as families have been increasingly able to access distance education, home schooling networks, high quality curriculum materials and a wide variety of information via the internet.

HUMAN RIGHTS CHARTERS: Do they protect our rights? By Dr David Phillips.        The Rudd Labor government of Australia elected in 2007, like the earlier Whitlam and Hawke Labor governments, soon began pushing for a national bill of charter of rights. Nearly $3 million over two years was set aside in the May 2008 federal budget to pay for a nationwide consultation on human rights and the best way to protect them. This move followed a decision by the Australian Labor Party at its 2007 national conference to "initiate a public inquiry about how best to recognise and protect the human rights and freedoms enjoyed by all Australians".