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I am on the Board of Trustees responsible for Mangrove Mountain Retreat. This fabulous centre was designed and built for young people who are in conflict with their parents. It was built by Wesley Mission when I was Superintendent, but is today operated by Youth Insearch under a trust. This work has helped stabilise over [...]

As Leader of the Family First Party NSW, I believe that Baby Safe Havens are desperately needed in New South Wales, and will introduce legislation into the next session of parliament.

Many of the issues at the Federal election have already been debated in the State Parliament. Members of the public have been very vocal and I have replied to hundreds of letters and emails. My speeches on the issues are to be found in Hansard or at http://www.gordonmoyes.com Now the pressure is upon the [...]

I am very pleased, speaking as the NSW Parliamentary Leader of Family First, along with my other colleagues in both the South Australian Parliament and the Australian Senate, to witness the excellent campaigns of all of our representatives standing for Parliament in this year’s Federal elections. Family First is the fifth biggest political Party in Australia, and having members in both State and Federal Parliaments, are not to be confused with micro parties that have only one member in one Parliament or none at all.

Australian society, like the rest of the Western world, is facing controversial issues due to the presence of Muslims, both immigrants and Australian born. What is the best response for us to take? Condemning a whole race or religious group and preventing them from coming to Australia as refugees or immigrants on the basis of [...]

In July 2009, a Parliamentary Inquiry conducted by the NSW Standing Committee on Law and Justice recommended that same-sex couples be enabled to adopt children. There was an enormous outcry from the public in response, with many thousands of signed petitions being received from citizens across New South Wales beseeching the government not to permit [...]

There is a better way of dealing with the confronting burqa. I thought that Former Prime Minister John Howard expressed it best when he spoke of the burqa as “a ‘confronting’ form of attire”.
It is true that some people are completely confronted with the way some people dress, so much so that it drives them [...]

Rev Fred Nile introduced a Bill into the House this week claiming urgency to debate his Bill to prosecute anyone who wears clothing that conceals the face. Although he said it was not just the burqa that concerned him, he went on to say how people around the world wear a burqa to hide explosives [...]

My wife saw on our large back lawn a pair of Australian wood-ducks. She was really pleased to see them walking around our back lawn, eating any sprouting seeds. They are “our” wood ducks. They have been coming to our dam and walking on our lawns for years. They stay together for years, make their [...]

I guess I have worn a tie almost every single day for the past 60 years. It certainly started as part of my primary school uniform, then my high school uniform which included suit and cap for six years, then theological college and University, then in ministry where the professional standard in those days required [...]