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Basketball Victoria preserves the integrity of its women’s league

Posted on Blog by Frederick Brohier · April 19, 2023 3:32 PM
Basketball Victoria is to be commended for preserving the integrity of its women’s league by declining the application of the biologically male athlete, Lexi Rodgers, to compete in the female competition.
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Basketball Victoria falls behind in advocating for female athletes

Posted on Blog by Frederick Brohier · March 24, 2023 12:54 PM
Just days after Basketball Victoria revealed that biological males will be allowed to participate in elite female competitions, World Athletics has banned transgender athletes from competing in female track and field events, citing fairness over inclusion.
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Basketball Victoria sacrifices fairness and safety for ‘inclusion’

Posted on Blog by Frederick Brohier · March 22, 2023 9:01 AM
Basketball Victoria claims they’re committed to “fairness, inclusion and safety,” yet they’re set to allow natal males to compete in the semi-professional women’s league.
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Thorburn ‘booted’ for his Christian beliefs

Posted on Blog by Wendy Francis · October 05, 2022 5:00 PM
The booting of Essendon Football Club’s newly appointed CEO, Andrew Thorburn, over his Christian beliefs and church involvement is concerning fair-minded Australians who continue to express their anger through social media with comments such as, “Seems we have lost free speech and freedom to be ourselves in this country now!!!!” “Diversity is the in thing, unless it’s something diverse from the woke narrative.”
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Christians not welcome in Essendon Football Club or, it seems, Victoria

Posted on Blog by Wendy Francis · October 05, 2022 4:35 PM
The forced resignation of Essendon Football Club’s newly appointed CEO, Andrew Thorburn, because of his Christian beliefs and church involvement should concern every single Australian who believes in freedom of speech and thought.
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Manly Sea Eagles are a diverse team - let's keep it that way

Posted on Blog by Martyn Iles · July 26, 2022 4:26 PM
The Australian Christian Lobby has today endorsed Prime Minster Anthony Albanese’s comments amidst the Manly Sea Eagles’ pride jersey saga, when he said, “It's important in Australian society that we respect everyone for who they are”.
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QLD: The Palaszczuk Government Refuses to Protect Women’s Sport

Posted on Blog by Wendy Francis · May 13, 2022 10:00 AM
The Palaszczuk Government, with the support of The Greens, has rejected a motion by KAP Party leader, Robbie Katter, to protect the integrity of women’s sport in Queensland. 
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TAS: Senator Chandler lights a candle for women’s sport

Posted on Blog by Frederick Brohier · March 01, 2022 1:06 PM
A 14 year old girl should be able to compete against other girls on sports day.
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ACL welcomes PM’s support of Save Women’s Sport bill

Posted on Blog by Wendy Francis · February 22, 2022 3:27 PM
The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) welcomes the Prime Minister’s strong affirmation of Senator Claire Chandler’s ‘Save Women’s Sport’ bill which calls for changes to the Sex Discrimination Act to confirm that the operation of single-sex sport on the basis of biological sex is not discriminatory.
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Senator Chandler is correct: keep women’s sport for women

Posted on Blog by Frederick Brohier · August 11, 2020 4:22 PM
“Women’s and girls’ sport should be exclusively for biological females,” Australian Christian Lobby state director Christopher Brohier said today, as the ACL supports Liberal Senator Claire Chandler’s call for Sport Australia to scrap guidelines which allow anyone identifying as a woman to play women’s sport.
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