The Anglican Church has been advised that there will be an state inquiry into the need for euthanasia in Tasmania.
25 April 1997
The decision by the Senate, the upper House of the Australian Parliament, to discard the Northern Territory's euthanasia legislation was today welcomed by church leaders. The Senate vote followed a vote in the House of Representatives some weeks earlier, which also supported the Private Member's Bill designed to overturn the Northern Territory euthanasis legislation.
25 March 1997
The Anglican Archbishop of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, the Most Revd Brian Davis, announced his retirement this week. He will retire as Bishop of Wellington on 1 July 1997, and his resignation as Primate of the Anglican Church on Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia takes effect from the same date.
07 March 1997
The Anglican Board of Mission (ABM) is making a series of sweeping changes to put more emphasis on parish work. This year the ABM will streamline its administration in favour of strategically-located field staff specialising the areas of youth ministry, mission education and development work.
27 January 1997
A major national conference to map out the future of the Anglican Church in Australia in the new millennium will be held in Canberra in February. More than 1,000 Anglicans will be attending.
27 January 1997
The Anglican Dean of Sydney, Boak Jobbins, said the latest death by euthanasia in the Northern Territory was another day of shame for Australia. "Quite clearly we are a nation that has come to the end of its resources," Dean Jobbins said. "We no longer have anything to offer the terminally ill, the aged or the disabled but a quick exit at the end of a needle."
09 January 1997
In November, Sydney's diocesan synod rejected a compromise attempt to allow women priests to be ordained in the diocese. It also refused to accept the new Australian prayer book.
19 December 1996
A report published by the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population, entitled Anglicans in Australia, reported that Anglicans were a declining proportion of the population.
07 October 1996
The Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Revd Harry Goodhew, spoke out this month against euthanasia following the first case of legal euthanasia in the Northern Territory. The Archbishop urged that the Federal Government to vote for an anti-euthanasia bill which would effectively overturn the Northern Territory voluntary euthanasia law.
07 October 1996
Leading Anglicans are voicing their concerns about the proposed A$8 million cuts to programmes and services in the Australian Federal Budget.
02 September 1996