Yolgnu Nation (Arnhem Land) condemns Stronger Futures legislation
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Social Policy Connections Statement of Support for the
03:28 pm | Overcoming addiction to pokies: Gabriela Byrne at SPC Anne Tuohey Poker machines are taking a huge toll on gambling addicts, according to recent reports, and are deliberately concentrated in lower socio-economic areas. In…
May 3 2012 / No Comment / Read More »05:20 am | by Anne Tuohey There is something extremely powerful about hearing a first hand account of a person’s story of…
Apr 17 2012 / No Comment / Read More »08:00 am | Dr Geoff Lacey Saturday Oases Breakfast 2 June 2012 9-11am Powerful tecnologies have enabled people to utilise vast energy…
Apr 11 2012 / No Comment / Read More »04:54 am | Brian Lawrence, Chair of the Australian Catholic Council of Employment Relations. Brian Lawrence spoke to an audience of SPC…
Feb 27 2012 / No Comment / Read More »02:04 am | SPC 6th Annual General Meeting 24 November 2011 Report by Peter Whiting SPC President. Welcome to this our sixth…
Nov 29 2011 / No Comment / Read More »National Directory of Refugee & Asylum Seeker Support Services.
Santamaria’s Salesman: The National Catholic Rural Movement 1959-1961.
Building Bridges, not Walls:Prisons & The Justice System
Call for more humane treatment of asylum seekers
ACRATH lobby in Canberra
Social Justice and Human Wellbeing – John Langmore
How to make use of Catholic Social Teaching
The Phoenix abortion debate – Brian Lewis
Social Spirituality & Catholic Teaching – Sandie Cornish
The puzzle of Caritas in Veritate – B. Duncan
Pope and world crisis – Bruce Duncan
The War of the Powerful against the Pope, by Arthur Gibbs
Pope & market forces – B. Duncan – the Age
Pope confronts economic injustice – B. Duncan
05:41 am | Bill Frilay Caritas Australia, the Catholic international aid organisation, has asked its supporters to email Senator Bob Carr, our new Foreign Minister, both to congratulate him on his appointment and to thank him for the Government’s commitment to increase Australia’s Official Development Assistance budget to 0.5 per cent of Gross National Income by 2015-16, “as…
Apr 11 2012 / No Comment / Read More »05:10 am | An address by Brian Lawrence to SPC’s forum in Melbourne on 14 March 2012. Brian Lawrence’s recent presentation identified the important relationship between Catholic social teaching and people’s entitlement to employment, a decent wage, and fair work conditions. At the beginning of his talk, Brian provided an example of Catholic social teaching in relation to…
Apr 17 2012 / No Comment / Read More »04:42 am | Australia’s planned breach of its international treaty obligations The sale of Australian uranium to India, as proposed by Prime Minister Julie Gillard in November 2011, would violate Australia’s obligations under the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty SPNFZT), an international legal instrument initiated by Australia in the 1980s. CLICK HERE for the complete article.…
Dec 5 2011 / No Comment / Read More »02:07 pm | By Kevin Peoples. Melbourne John Garrattt Publishing 2012. Bruce Duncan at Albert Park 29 April 2012. Kevin Peoples has written a truly remarkable book, shedding light on one of the most perplexing periods in our nation’s short history and its religious and social movements. Kevin writes that in his youth he was “prone to reckless…
May 8 2012 / No Comment / Read More »03:28 pm | Overcoming addiction to pokies: Gabriela Byrne at SPC Anne Tuohey Poker machines are taking a huge toll on gambling addicts, according to recent reports, and are deliberately concentrated in lower socio-economic areas. In Victoria, problem gamblers are losing up to $4.7 million a day. And, in the last decade, Victorians have lost more than $24…
May 3 2012 / No Comment / Read More »06:39 pm | Refugee & Asylum Seeker Support Services of the Australian Churches. This publication – produced by the Yarra Institute for Religion & Social Policy – provides information about refugee and asylum…
May 9 2012 / No Comment / Read More »04:41 am | Immigration is a key issue in Australia. Until the 1960s, the government encouraged migrants to assimilate into Australian society, but due…
Oct 20 2011 / No Comment / Read More »02:29 am | Not only is prolonged detention of asylum seekers morally objectionable, it is causing long-term damage to the mental health of people seeking…
Oct 12 2011 / No Comment / Read More »02:22 am | Media Release Long-term health costs of extended mandatory detention of asylum seekers. A new report urges Australians to consider the long-term consequences…
Oct 12 2011 / No Comment / Read More »08:00 am | Dr Geoff Lacey Saturday Oases Breakfast 2 June 2012 9-11am Powerful tecnologies have enabled people to utilise vast energy resources for industrial…
Apr 11 2012 / No Comment / Read More »03:47 am | By Bill Frilay On13 March 2012, CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology jointly released an updated State of the Climate Report…
Mar 27 2012 / No Comment / Read More »01:48 am | An opinion piece by Len Puglisi Nature is being lambasted these ‘disaster-ridden’ days as ‘cruel’. But the geologian, the late Thomas Berry,…
Feb 28 2012 / No Comment / Read More »02:55 pm | If you’ve ever had doubts about what the economic rationalist/ neoliberal ethos,1 or corporate-consumerist capitalism,2 might mean for an Australia inside a mining boom as the dominant driver, look no…
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