Liberating the media from law's bondage

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."

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…