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Consider this fact: China has the second-largest number of organ transplant operations in the world every year, even though they have no organised, official system of organ donations in place. How can that be? This book gives us the answer in grim detail as the two Canadian authors report on their investigation into the widespread allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China.

This Sunday, The Hon. Dr Gordon Moyes AC MLC and Clr Stephen Bali, Deputy Mayor of Blacktown City, will join members of the Blacktown community in officially opening Family Life Ministries and celebrating its service to the Blacktown community.

International Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization, founded by volunteer doctors and nurses and dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through relief and development programs. Our emergency response team is in Haiti responding in force .

The earthquake that devastated the Caribbean’s most impoverished and unstable nation has left the Haitian capital reduced to ruins and the death toll increasing. As aid agencies scramble to bring emergency relief and join in the rescue effort, hundreds of thousands of survivors continue to face the untold suffering of burying their loved ones, searching for buried victims, and sleeping in the streets with no electricity, food or water.

Family First in NSW was receiving Christmas cheers from residents across NSW over the holidays who became part of a large recruitment drive in support of this new NSW-based party. When Dr Gordon Moyes joined in November 2009 as the Parliamentary Leader of Family First in the NSW Legislative Assembly, the first step was to recruit 750 new members for registration purposes. “No problem” said State Director Phil Lamb, who then with State Executive member David Liptak and the State Council, devised a strategic action plan to get the party registered.

The Hon. Linda Burney, Minister for Community Services, will be responding to the Legislative Council’s Inquiry into Adoption by Homosexual Couples no later than the 8th of January 2010. We have had a wonderful response so far from the NSW church community with many hundreds of completed petitions received and presented to the Parliament last week, and many more still arriving each day which will be presented in February when Parliament resumes.

The NSW Parliament Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters is to inquire into and report upon a public funding model for political parties and candidates to apply at the state and local government elections, including how this model could reform political donations and expenditure.

Walk Against Warming is Australia’s biggest community day of action on climate change. Based on the belief that the only way we can be heard on climate change is by standing together, Walk Against Warming provides a powerful voice for ordinary Australians to be counted on the most critical issue of our lifetimes – climate change.

Every year on 3 December, the observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities aims to promote an understanding of disability issues, the right of persons with disabilities, and gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of the political, social, economic and cultural life of their communities.

By now most of you will have heard about the report released by the NSW Standing Committee on Law and Justice Inquiry into Same-Sex Adoption, which recommended that the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to adopt children. The committee have determined that this change will be in the best interests of the child, and furthermore they believe it will best protect children’s rights.