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Sandy Grant is an Australian Anglican minister, who has been Dean of St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney since 9 December 2021. [1] [2] Prior to that, he was Senior Minister of St Michael's Cathedral, Wollongong from 2004 to 2021.

Grant was previously Chair of the Sydney Anglican Domestic Violence Task Force. [3] [4] [5] He studied at Moore Theological College. [6]

Grant is an advocate of poker machine reform. [7] [8]

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References

  1. "Canon Sandy Grant, of St Michael's Anglican Cathedral Wollongong, the new Dean of Sydney". Illawarra Mercury . 8 August 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  2. "Sandy Grant". SydneyAnglicans.net. Anglican Diocese of Sydney.
  3. Powell, Russell (4 June 2015). "Sydney Diocese appoints Domestic Violence task force". SydneyAnglicans.net. Anglican Diocese of Sydney . Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  4. Baird, Julia; Gleeson, Hayley (21 July 2017). "Australian church leaders call for urgent response to domestic violence". ABC News . Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  5. Baird, Julia; Gleeson, Hayley (22 November 2017). "Raped, tracked, humiliated: Clergy wives speak out about domestic violence". ABC News . Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  6. Grant, Sandy (4 March 2015). "For Christians who missed the memo: the Bible abhors all domestic abuse". Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 4 September 2022.
  7. Abbott, Rebecca (27 September 2022). "Poker machine reform: Why Christians should care". Eternity . Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  8. Woods, Bill (29 September 2022). "Sydney pastors plea for action against poker machine 'scourge'". 2GB . Retrieved 10 April 2023.
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