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JESUS CENTRE GATHERINGS  1975

BARRY McGUIRE ADELAIDE VISIT  March 1975

KYM & ELAINE'S WEDDING FESTIVITIES  1975

OS GUINNESS VISIT & NATIONAL CONFERENCE

MELBOURNE STREET MARKET  Sept. 1975

GEOFF & AVA'S WEDDING  Oct. 1975

KAROONDA METHODIST CHURCH  Oct. 1975

NIKKI CRUZ RALLY  Nov. 1975

Nikki Cruz featured in "The Cross and Swithchblade" book by Rev. David Wilkerson. He was a former member of the "Mau Maus" gang in New York City.

Nikki's testimony of coming to know God is in the book "Run Baby Run".

PRO-ABORTION RALLY  Dec. 1975

The Jesus Centre, based in North Adelaide, was committed to presenting a Christian alternative to the pro-abortion movement at the time. We joined the Abortion Rally on the 6th December 1975 handing out flyers to promote a pro-life position.

POLITICAL RALLY  Dec. 1975

The 1975 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 13 December 1975. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives and all 64 seats in the Senate were up for election, due to a double dissolution.

Malcolm Fraser had been commissioned as caretaker prime minister following the dismissal of Gough Whitlam's three-year-old Labor government by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, on 11 November 1975. The same day, Fraser advised an immediate double dissolution, in accordance with Kerr's stipulated conditions (see 1975 Australian constitutional crisis).

The Coalition of Fraser's Liberal Party of Australia and Doug Anthony's National Country Party secured government in its own right, winning the largest majority government to date in Australian history. The Liberals actually won a majority in their own right, with 68 seats–the first time that the main non-Labor party had done so since adopting the Liberal banner in 1944. Although Fraser had no need for the support of the National Country Party, the Coalition was retained.

Labor suffered a 30-seat swing and saw its lower house caucus cut almost in half, to 36 seats—fewer than it had when Whitlam became leader in the aftermath of the Coalition landslide nearly 10 years earlier, in the 1966 election.

JESUS CENTRE PEOPLE  1975

This history of the ADELAIDE JESUS CENTRE and JIREH CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY has been compiled by Mal Graetz. The purpose of this site is to make the text and photos available to former members of these Christian communities so that any corrections or additions can be made.

A printed book is planned following this consultation process.

See BOOK heading for more details

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