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Australia's first, safest, and most conservative voluntary assisted dying scheme is booming. In Victoria, demand has skyrocketed, and the Labor government plans to loosen safeguards and make it easier for even more people to access services. 

I want to consider how Australia appears now to be untethering the law from the morality of traditional Christianity, and from reason, at a cyclonic pace in a comprehensive triumph of positivism over natural law.

Christian leaders from across Australia have released a powerful manifesto defending biblical values, life, and free speech against growing cultural and legislative pressure.

I am deeply thankful to Pope Leo XIV for honest, blunt talk about the most troubling questions the human race now faces on assisted suicide, abortion, birth rates and the sexual revolution.

In an Australia first, the ACT Labor government is considering assisted suicide for patients who lose decision-making capacity — alarming pro-life groups who have long warned of a slippery slope regarding euthanasia.

My journey to be the lead South Australian Senate Candidate for Family First starts at our family breakfast table. We would come home after church, have breakfast and have spirited arguments about political issues.

The head of the Tuscan Bishops’ Conference said the passage of a new law in Italy allowing medically assisted suicide was “not an achievement, but a defeat for everyone.”

J.D. Vance’s speech to last week’s Munich Security Conference was a masterpiece of MAGA rhetoric. His theme was that “there is a new sheriff in town” who doesn’t give a damn what you stuffed shirts think.

Discover the dark alliance between Marie Stopes and Margaret Sanger — pioneers of contraception whose obsessions with eugenics and sexuality sparked rivalries, scandals, and an enduring global legacy.

Regrettably and importantly, the assisted dying bill gives no direction as to what the doctor should do if the “lethal” dose does not, in fact, kill the patient. This will certainly happen and it needs to be specified if the bill is to become law.

MPs in the British Parliament have voted for Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill on its second reading by 330 votes for to 275 against. It is highly appropriate that this Bill should have passed its second reading on “Black Friday”.

Joe de Bruyn is a well-known Catholic trade-unionist who was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He gave a speech in thanksgiving for the award, which prompted a disconcerting walk-out by graduates and faculty members.

Australia’s Capital Territory is considering a proposal to expand its voluntary assisted dying scheme so that those with reduced mental capacity can consent to their death by euthanasia.

Apart from having the highest death rate, Queensland also has the title of the first coronial inquest into a wrongful death under its euthanasia laws. 

When we allow euphemisms like "abortion", "termination of pregnancy", "assisted suicide", "health care", or "dignified dying" to creep unqualified into our vocabulary and our conversations, we lose the meaning, the picture of what is truly taking place: deliberate killing of a human person.

The Country Liberal Party has stormed to victory in the NT election. Hidden from the major headlines – but more important – is the story of prayer behind it.

The more the Christian roots of America and the West are attacked and removed, the less the benefits of the faith will last. What we are seeing now is clear proof of this reality.

Former members of Freemasonry are rich sources of information about current anti-life legislation and policies, and those who are willing to speak out do confirm that there is a strong link between Freemasonry and the push for progressive social agendas generally.

New South Wales will soon be the “death capital” of Australia’s new euthanasia reality, with statistics showing the state has the highest rate of “voluntary assisted dying” deaths in the country. 

The Australian Capital Territory has passed the nation’s most extreme voluntary assisted dying laws, after last-minute attempts by Liberal MPs to pass amendments were defeated. The Legislative Assembly passed the bill on 5 June, and the law will come into effect on 3 November 2025.