The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has added his voice to the growing number of advocates calling for a national summit on alternatives to Australia’s refugee policies.
“The federal government should hold a summit to explore alternatives to the current policies which include the mandatory detention and offshore processing of people seeking asylum,” Mr McMillan ...
Fifty years ago, on 18 August 1966, a fierce battle was fought on the rubber plantations near Long Tan in South Vietnam.
The Battle of Long Tan was the deadliest clash involving Australian troops during the Vietnam War. According to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, 18 Australians were killed in the battle with another 24 wounded. An estimated 245 ...
The Rio Olympics has seen record-breaking feats, with Usain Bolt racing himself into Olympics history and Michael Phelps winning his 28th, and most-likely final, medal.
Many athletes dream of returning home with a gold medal. But for some, just getting to the Olympics is a remarkable achievement.
Day one of the Rio Olympics saw teenage Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini ...
Some of Australia’s best opera singers will perform at an upcoming concert to raise funds for people with dementia and their carers.
Renowned singers Judy Sporton, Amanda Stevenson, Torquil Syme and Renn Wortley from Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Victoria will perform songs from hit musicals such as Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music.
UnitingJustice is calling on congregations to write to their local MP in response to the Nauru Files.
More than 2,000 incident reports were leaked from the Nauru detention centre and published in Guardian Australia last week. They detailed harrowing stories of abuse, trauma and self-harm.
UnitingJustice national director Rev Elenie Poulos urged church members to call, email and ...
It was supposed to be the night when Australians paused “to make a difference”. But what took the biggest pause on Tuesday night was the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website frustrating millions who were unable to complete the online Census.
The list of people and organisations being blamed for the ...
By Penny Mulvey
A lifetime of battling the military bureaucracy has finally brought the acknowledgement that Harry Smith had sought for his men who put their lives on the line in the defining battle of the Vietnam War, the Battle of Long Tan.
Lieutenant Colonel (Rtd) Harry Smith was like a ‘dog with a bone’. Despite repeated knockbacks by numerous ...
The Uniting Church has demanded the immediate closure of Australia’s offshore detention centres following the publication of leaked documents from the Nauru facility that detail harrowing incidents of physical, sexual and psychological abuse inflicted on child and adult asylum seekers.
The 2016 documents, detailing 1086 incidents deemed serious enough to be reported by staff working at Nauru detention centre ...
On 9 August, Australians will take part in the 2016 Census. The largest statistical collection in the country will provide a snapshot of how the Australian population has changed over the past five years.
The Census comes a week after Homelessness Week, which adopted the theme ‘homelessness counts’. Homelessness agencies are sending a message that every person, whether they ...
Indigenous Australians have responded to a controversial cartoon in The Australian by proudly sharing stories and photos of their fathers on Twitter.
The illustration by cartoonist Bill Leak depicted a police officer handing an Indigenous child over to his father. The father is shown holding a beer can and is unable to remember his son’s name.
The Uniting Church is uniquely placed to effectively convey the Christian message in contemporary Australia but is failing to do so.
That’s one of the conclusions Rev Dr Philip Hughes has reached after 30 years of researching the faith of Australians.
The Uniting Church minister was a founding staff member of the Christian Research Association (CRA) and is preparing ...
The Rio Olympics officially opens on Saturday morning AEST and millions of spectators worldwide will be cheering on their nation’s heroes.
The 2016 Olympics was supposed to mark Brazil’s rise as a global power. But behind the backdrop of the sunny Rio beaches is a country struggling under the weight of ...
