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SPC Newsletter May 2012. Overcoming pokies addiction : Gabriela Byrne. »

SPC Newsletter May 2012. Overcoming pokies addiction : Gabriela Byrne.

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 »
Events

Gabriela Byrne on the personal and community impact of pokies. »

Gabriela Byrne on the personal and community impact of pokies.

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 »

Sufficient for the day: a response to global warming »

Sufficient for the day: a response to global warming

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 »

Working families, social inclusion, and fair wages: moving beyond rhetoric »

Working families, social inclusion, and fair wages: moving beyond rhetoric

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 »

2011 AGM »

2011 AGM

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 »

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The Yarra Institute

Caritas call to continue increase in official aid. »

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 »

Working families, social inclusion, & fair wages: moving beyond rhetoric »

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 »

The illegality of selling Australian uranium to India »

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 »

Santamaria’s Salesman: The National Catholic Rural Movement 1959-1961. »

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 »

SPC Newsletter May 2012. Overcoming pokies addiction : Gabriela Byrne. »

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 »

Asylum seekers

National Directory of Refugee & Asylum Seeker Support Services. »

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 »

Refugees in Australia: An English View, by Sally May »

Refugees in Australia: An English View, by Sally May

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 »

Study finds lengthy detention harms asylum seekers »

Study finds lengthy detention harms asylum seekers

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 »

Health costs and extended mandatory detention – Media Release »

Health costs and extended mandatory detention – Media Release

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 »

Stewardship of our planet

Sufficient for the day: a response to global warming »

Sufficient for the day: a response to global warming

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 »

State of the Climate Report CSIRO/Bureau of Meteorology March 2012 »

State of the Climate Report CSIRO/Bureau of Meteorology March 2012

03:47 am | By Bill Frilay    On13 March 2012, CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology jointly released an updated State of the Climate Report…

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Cities, Nature & the Sacred. »

Cities, Nature & the Sacred.

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 »
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Rich Land, Wasteland – How coal is killing Australia, A review essay by Len Puglisi »

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