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Liberating the media from law's bondage

By Vishal Mangalwadi - posted Thursday, 6 October 2011


Those who still have the humility to learn from the makers of modern Australia would know that the founders believed that Australia needed more than laws to become a great nation.

In 1901, after the Constitution was ratified, Alfred Deakin, a father of Australia's Constitution and its second Prime Minister, offered the following public prayer:

"We pray that it may be the means of creating and fostering throughout all Australia a Christ-like Citizenship."

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Even John Fairfax the editor and proprietor of the Sydney Morning Herald built his media empire because of his belief in the Bible. In 1825 he prayed, "That if I ever lived and died without Christ I should be miserable to all eternity."

Indeed, a culture that abandons Christ's grace and truth condemns itself – including its media, economy, family and eventually the streets – to be ruled by chaos or controlled by authoritarian law.

Let's contemplate that now Australia…

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Dr Mangalwadi is visiting Australia between the 8 – 16 October 2011 to do a series of lectures on his new book The Book that Made your World published by Thomas Nelson.



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Dr Vishal Mangalwadi is an international lecturer, social reformer, political columnist, and author of 14 books.

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