SUNDAY POLITICAL BROADCASTS
CLERGYMEN OBJECT IN AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, February 28. Clergymen are criticising the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr Chifley) for choosing Sunday evening at the church hour to broadcast his ‘ reports to the nation.” A Presbyterian minister, the Rev. S. A. Eastman, said that for some time the Australian Council of Churches had been concerned about the use of Sunday as a kind of special day for party political propaganda and public meetings without a vestige of spiritual religion. ‘‘lf the national leaders want us to build a better and a Christian Commonwealth,” he added, “then why do they not give the Church a fair go instead of competing with us in our particular niece of work? It is neither good unionism nor good grace.”
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25741, 1 March 1949, Page 5
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