November 29, 2023
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has discussed a range of issues at a media conference in Perth today.
Gillard discussed a range of issues, including the visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Royal Commission on child sexual abuse, and the latest opinion polls.
Cardinal George Pell has held a thirty-minute press conference in Sydney to discuss the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse.
Anglican and Catholic archbishops have attacked the ALP’s schools policy in a statement released today.
Text of a media release on behalf of the Catholic and Anglican Archbishops of Sydney and Melbourne.
In response to the Australian Labor Party’s Schools Policy Great Australian Schools, we offer the following comments.
“We endorse strongly the principle of parents being free to choose the kind of education they want for their children. Parents may choose education provided by government schools or may choose a school that more closely supports their family’s values and beliefs.
Mark Latham has given a speech in the House of Representatives decrying “the new political correctness” of the “conservative establishment”.
Speaking in the Grievance Debate, Latham, the Labor member for Werriwa, argued that conservatives only want civility on one side of the political fence.
This is the statutory declaration issued by the Catholic Archibishop of Sydney, George Pell.
The declaration responds to allegations regarding a former priest of the Ballarat Diocese, Gerald Ridsdale, aired on Channel 9’s Sixty Minutes program.