WfaAR strongly disagrees with the comments of Lyle Sheldon, Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, as reported in the media: “This is a bigger decision than the republic because it’s redefining marriage and families…this is a bigger decision than merely a ceremonial head of state”. At the time, Sheldon was arguing for public funding of the YES and NO Cases. However, we have news for him. Australians have been redefining marriage and families for years now without needing a plebiscite and…. the Republic is much more fundamental change to our system of government than just having a ceremonial head of state. ACL should bone up on the technicalities of an Australian Republic before indulging in any more throw-away lines.[“Taxpayers may foot bill for campaigns” by Stephanie Peatling, Fairfax, 26 July 2016]. In fact, we’d go as far as to say that this extremely rare plebiscite is a waste of a process and everyone’s time and that it should be on the Republic instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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