Stoker, Canavan and Christensen to speak at pro-life rally in Brisbane
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Scott Morrison’s Assistant Minister for Women will be among the headline speakers at an anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia rally in Brisbane on Saturday.
Senator Amanda Stoker’s appearance, fresh from losing her fight against James McGrath for the coveted first place on the LNP Senate ticket, comes as the pro-life movement ramps up its activism, including paid newspaper and radio advertisements, before a planned conscience vote on voluntary assisted dying laws in Queensland.
News by Samantha Maiden 6th May 2021 4:53 AM Cricket great Michael Slater has challenged to Prime Minister to a debate as he delivered another brutal sledge over the flight ban for Aussies trying to flee India. Slater called on Scott Morrison to take your private jet and come and witness the dead bodies on the street! before saying he would debate him anytime in a series of blistering tweets. In the latest war of words between the pair, the broadcaster returned fire after the PM dismissed his claim that the Morrison Government could be left his blood on his hands over the Indian flight ban.
News by Samantha Maiden 6th May 2021 4:53 AM Cricket great Michael Slater has challenged to Prime Minister to a debate as he delivered another brutal sledge over the flight ban for Aussies trying to flee India. Slater called on Scott Morrison to take your private jet and come and witness the dead bodies on the street! before saying he would debate him anytime in a series of blistering tweets. In the latest war of words between the pair, the broadcaster returned fire after the PM dismissed his claim that the Morrison Government could be left his blood on his hands over the Indian flight ban.
Australia keeps calm while China carries on
Cairns Aquarium, Queensland, Australia (Xinhua/Bai Xuefei via Getty Images) Published 4 May 2021 06:00 5 Comments
Now that the Morrison government has cancelled Victoria’s Belt and Road agreement with China, Australia is bracing for retaliation from Beijing, probably by way of further trade sanctions. When that retaliation arrives, what should Australia do about it?
There’s an old saying that “living well is the best revenge”. If someone has wronged you, don’t retaliate and don’t be consumed with anger or thoughts of vengeance. Just focus on living your best life. There’s a hint of stoicism about this advice – it calls for endurance and calm indifference to wrongs, rather than retribution. It is not always emotionally satisfying. When we have been injured or embarrassed by someone, it often feels like the best revenge is, well, re
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Scott Morrison’s address to the Australian Christian Churches (ACC) gathering on the Gold Coast last week began with a roll call of Christian influence on the government. The words were music to the ears of an adoring audience of Pentecostal Christians lapping up the proof of how far they’d come with one of their own in the highest political office in the land.
“Brother Stewie,” the prime minister said, name-checking Employment Minister Stuart Robert, a fellow Pentecostal. Robert has recently been promoted to the government’s powerful Expenditure Review Committee.
Then there was “brother Matt”, who’d “recently joined us”. This was West Australian Liberal Matt O’Sullivan, elected to the Senate in 2019, who graduated into politics via billionaire Christian businessman Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation. In his brief time in Parliament, O’Sullivan has already distinguished himself as a defender of the governmen