Senate debates

Thursday, 28 November 2024

Statements by Senators

Injune Churches Together

1:40 pm

Photo of James McGrathJames McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) | Hansard source

Merry Christmas, everyone. Each year my Christmas card features a country church from a small town in Queensland, and this year it is the Injune Churches Together, in Injune. On the back of the card is my message to everybody: 'Christmas is a time to give thanks, to rest and to reflect. Whether you pray to God or gods or to none, let us all give thanks that we live in Australia. As Ukraine fights for freedom and war grows in the Holy Land, we do pray for peace. We give thanks that in Injune the Anglican, Catholic and Uniting churches showed the way by coming together as Injune Churches Together. Originally known as St Peter's, it a simple church that was built of cypress pine in 1925. Inside it was unlined, with a simple altar and stools for seating. Injune Churches Together is proof that churches need not be grand for us to pray, to think and to give thanks. Let the story of this church and the uniting of different denominations in a small country town guide us, and may the new year bring better days.'

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