Roy Williams ( – ) author
One of Australia’s emerging public intellectuals and writers, Roy Williams’ distinguished 20-year career in the legal profession was cut short in 2004 when he experienced a life-changing illness. Forced to leave the law, he took time to recuperate before deciding to become a writer.
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Human Rights Law Alliance
Human Rights Law Alliance
The Human Rights Law Alliance is a Christian charitable law firm set up to protect and advance the religious freedom of all Australians.
Lachlan Macquarie Institute
Lachlan Macquarie Institute
LMI prepares Christian men and women for political and cultural leadership.
Themi Adamopoulos
Themi Adamopoulos (1946 – ) the “Saint of Africa”
He risks his life through a sense of love without fear. His tool is faith and his dream is for a better future for the children and heroic mothers of Africa.
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Marriage Week
Marriage Week
Marriage Week is an annual celebration, commencing on the second Sunday in September, to reinforce and promote the benefits/importance of marriage.
Jereth Kok
Jereth Kok ( – ) persecuted doctor
A family doctor has been suspended from medical practice in Australia after sharing his Christian beliefs online.
Royal Flying Doctor Service
Royal Flying Doctor Service
The Royal Flying Doctor Service is one of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world, providing extensive primary health care and 24-hour emergency service to people over an area of 7.69 million square kilometres.
20Twenty
20Twenty
Christian podcasts with Neil Johnson
Focus Military Ministry
Focus Military Ministry
Focus Military Ministry is a Christian ministry, overseen by a board or current or former ADF members, who employ ministry workers and volunteers to lead the ministry. We are committed to making Christ known in the ADF.
Elizabeth Kendal
Elizabeth Kendal ( – ) religious liberty analyst, advocate
God has created within me a heart that yearns for those who suffer and struggle, believers who find their faith sorely tested.
Greg Sheridan
Greg Sheridan (1956 – ) foreign affairs journalist, author and commentator
Sheridan has now well and truly come out of the closet as a highly public Christian in his new book, called appropriately enough Christians
Samuel Leigh
Samuel Leigh (1785 – 1852) Australia’s first Methodist Minister
The indefatigable labours, apostolic zeal and quiet courage that characterized all his undertakings give Leigh an honoured place in the history of Methodism.
Greg Craven
Greg Craven (1958 – ) constitutional lawyer
Greg Craven is an Australian academic, constitutional lawyer and was vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University from 2008 to 2021
Peter Cosgrove
Peter Cosgrove (1947 – ) Chief of Army
“in the end, the motivation to get out of bed in the morning and to be one of Christ’s children is an act of faith”.
Ben Chifley
Ben Chifley (1885 – 1951) locomotive engine driver, Prime Minister
While he attended Mass regularly, after 1914 Chifley believed that he was no longer a full member of the Church, nor, in his own words, could he be ‘one of its model children’.
Anglicare
Anglicare
Anglicare Australia is the national umbrella community services body of agencies associated with each diocese of the Anglican Church of Australia.
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Frank Brennan
Frank Brennan (1954 – ) adjunct professor
Frank Brennan is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to Aboriginal Australians, particularly as an advocate in the areas of law, social justice and reconciliation.
John Dickson
John Dickson ( – ) writer, speaker and academic
John Dickson is an Australian historian of religion (focusing on early Christianity and Judaism) and media presenter.
Nicola McDermott
Nicola McDermott (1996 – ) Olympic high jumper
“What was written was fearless hearts are birthed in perfect love and that’s from Jesus and 1 John 4:18,” McDermott explained.
Mark Powell
Mark Powell ( – ) author
Mark Powell has six children and he serves as a Presbyterian minister. Mark is a passionate advocate for faith and family; he has been on radio and TV advocating for Freedom, Faith, Family and Life. He has also written for The Spectator.
Dave Pellowe
Dave Pellowe ( – ) writer and commentator
Dave Pellowe is a Christian conservative writer & commentator, editor of The Good Sauce, and convener of the annual Church And State Summit.
Kurt Mahlburg
Kurt Mahlburg ( – ) author
Kurt Mahlburg is Canberra Declaration’s Features Editor. He also works as a primary school teacher and a freelance writer. He blogs at Cross + Culture and is a regular contributor at the Spectator Australia, MercatorNet, Caldron Pool and The Good Sauce, among other online publications.
Family First
Family First
Two former state Labor ministers have quit the ALP and are restarting the Christian-based Family First Party in South Australia, saying the major parties no longer support religious freedom or give Christians a voice on social policy.
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The Christian origins of the Labor Party
The Christian origins of the Labor Party
If the Labor Party can recover this story, it won’t just be the ALP that’s renewed. It might just be Australia, too.
John Haller – Fellowship Bible Chapel
John Haller
While much of this tribute website is devoted to Australia’s Christian heritage and history.
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ISCAST
ISCAST
To engage Australians in constructive conversation between Christian faith and the sciences.
Torres Strait islanders celebrate 150 years since the arrival of Christianity
Torres Strait islanders celebrate 150 years since the arrival of Christianity
Marked annually on July 1 as ‘The Coming of the Light’, Torres Strait Islanders are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity to island communities.
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Ash Barker
Ash Barker ( – ) founder of Urban Neighbours of Hope
Until October 2013, Ash Barker was the founding director of Urban Neighbours Of Hope (UNOH), which the Barkers started in Springvale (Melbourne, Australia).
Joseph Lyons
Joseph Lyons (1879 – 1939) Prime Minister
Lyons won three successive elections convincingly, a performance then unmatched by any other prime minister.
