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In 2003, with other newly elected members of Parliament, I wrote to Kristina Keneally to invite her to join the Parliamentary Christian Prayer Fellowship. A number of new coalition members joined and three new Labor parliamentarians. They have all made a significant contribution to the prayer meeting I run each Thursday.

One privilege I have as a member of the NSW Parliament is to lead a number of Christian activities within the Parliament. One is a monthly lunchtime meeting in the Parliamentary Theatre called Christian Focus on Society when I introduce outstanding Christian speakers on issues that confront society from a Christian perspective.

I did not know Professor Chris O’Brien well, but during the time I was a member of the Royal Prince Albert (RPA) hospital Ethics Committee, he with other professors would bring their applications for approval for new procedures and for any invasive protocols on their patients for approval.

Rev. Darren Box, 39, is a voluntary member of the ministry team at the Lakes Evangelical Church, Berkeley Vale, New South Wales, where I attend. When Darren scoots in to preach, he already has our attention.

I have been making a study of the political strategy of Barack Obama for the past two years. I have read his two books and have noted every article by journalists. I have just returned from a month in USA where I more closely observed his campaign. He has totally rewritten the strategy of successfully campaigning for elections.

If I was in charge, then the next Young Australian of the Year would be Sophie Delezio. It is impossible to imagine what the recent years have been like for Sophie Delezio and her friend Molly Wood.

The first thing you notice is his size. He is head and shoulders above everyone. And his shoulders – they are wider than the barn door. He often wears shorts to church (ours is a relaxed fellowship!) and that is when you realize his thighs are like tree trunks.

All over the USA are thousands of theme parks, each one different from the last, and each one bring life to cities and remote country towns. All of them together cannot satisfy the American thirst to be entertained.
Communities scratch in the dust of their history frantic to find some historical event from the past that will give them a hook upon which to hang their future, much the same way as Glenrowen is Ned Kelly’s town and the Eureka Stockade gives life to Ballarat.

OK. It was not the sort of thing that people who know me would expect me to be doing – speaking at the opening of a sex shop. And even though I have spoken at the opening of more than four hundred buildings – retirement villages, nursing homes, hospitals, children’s homes, unemployment training centres, educational facilities, – this was the first of its type I have even been in, let alone officially opened. And why have a prayer at such an opening?

Every federal election has some journalist indicating that this particular one is the most important election since World War Two. Perhaps the election of 2007 was.