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JESUS CENTRE PEOPLE  1978

SYDENHAM RD. PROPERY DEVELOPMENTS  1978

VISIT TO MANOAH COMMUNITY  Aug. 1978

FESTIVAL OF LIGHT  10 Sept. 1978

On the 10 September 1978, some of the Jesus Centre people joined the ‘Whitehouse Rally’ in Adelaide's Rymill Park. Festival of Light circulated a petition calling for tighter control of pornography, later signed by over 14,000 South Australians.

On 20 September, Labor Premier Don Dunston delivered a blistering attack on the Festival of Light in the South Australian House of Assembly, calling the petition pamphlet "disgraceful". He said a graph accompanying the petition was "one of the most untruthful pieces of work that I have ever come across" because it showed a rise in South Australian rates of reported rape following a 1974 law allowing the sale of hardcore pornography, compared with Queensland where hardcore pornography was banned and rape reports remained steady. Dunstan said rape convictions should have been used instead of reports, and the graph should have extended beyond 1975.

However, on 27 September, Liberal MP Bruce Eastick defended the Festival of Light petition and graph, and said part of the Premier's speech the week before had been a "blatant untruth". Dr Eastick said rape report statistics from South Australia and Queensland after 1975 showed that "it is quite clear that the problem in South Australia is almost four times as serious as that which exists in Queensland". Liberal MP Mrs Jennifer Adamson later fully documented the statistics in the Festival of Light petition pamphlet, and listed the academic credentials of the founding chairman Dr John Court.

see above report on Wikipedia "Family Voice Australia".

RUSSELL BARTLETT INDIAN VISIT  1978

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NORWOOD COMMUNITY EVENTS  Dec. 1978

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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