Julia Irwin (Fowler, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes:

(a)

that the first week of June marks the week of International Church Action for Peace in Palestine and Israel; and

(b)

the statement by Australian church leaders issued in a statement of 4 June 2008—prepared by Archbishop Phillip Aspinall, Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia; Rev Gregor Henderson, President of the Uniting Church in Australia; and Archbishop Philip Wilson, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference; and supported by 12 national Heads of Churches, 36 other Australian Church Leaders, 8 Heads of Church and related International Aid agencies—calling for the Australian Government to give a much higher priority to working for peace in the Holy Land; and

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