PENNY MULVEY
Anzac Day 2015 was an enormous event. The centenary of Gallipoli – a disastrous military exercise, which over the nine months it raged between the Turkish and Allied Forces, claimed more than 141 thousand lives.
This year Australia commemorates the 50th anniversary of our involvement in an equally flawed military encounter – the Vietnam War.
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Like many young men in Australia, Peter Johns wanted to attend university and pursue a career in an industry of his choice. But tertiary education can be expensive; tuition fees, transport, textbooks and equipment all add up to create a significant financial hurdle. A person’s own financial circumstances may create an additional barrier to their ...
If experience is the best teacher, Rev Ros McDonald has certainly learnt how to cope with change. As the school chaplain at Acacia College, Ms McDonald found herself counselling and supporting the school community through uncertainty and turmoil at a time when she, personally, was going through those same emotions. It is these skills she ...
“Here today we are making a difference by building bridges of harmony across different faiths and generations. We are learning to share stories of hope, healing and growing stronger as a group determined to paint a new canvas that brings peace and happiness to us all. “ – Shyama Fuad (USMAA)
The Daring Conference is a biannual national gathering of LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) people within the Uniting Church in Australia. This year, the three-day conference will be held at the Centre for Theology and Ministry in Melbourne from Friday 10 June to Monday 13 June.
Much has been written throughout the week about the bungled attempt by Australia’s 60 Minutes program to ‘retrieve’ two children at the centre of a custody dispute from their father in Beirut.
Nine people – the mother of the two children, the 60 Minutes crew and members of Child ...
Uniting Church President Stuart McMillan has joined 50 prominent Australians in urging Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull not to lower taxes in the federal budget.
Other signatories of the open letter to Mr Turnbull include Justice and International Mission unit director Dr Mark Zirnsak, UnitingCare Australia director Lin Hatfield Dodds, ACTU president Ged Kearney, Nobel prize winner Peter ...
Connections UnitingCare has been awarded ‘Best Newcomer to Social Impact Measurement’ by the Social Impact Measurement Network Australia (SIMNA). The agency was awarded for the development of the Connections Outcomes Framework (COF).
The Best Newcomer category recognises organisations that have introduced social impact measurement within the past two years. Assessment is across six criteria, with a focus on rigour, transparency ...
Everyone loves to cuddle a baby animal, and seniors at Uniting AgeWell’s Condare Court are no different.
Baby chicks, lambs, calves, goats and rabbits strutted their stuff at the newly refurbished Camberwell site on April 11 for an afternoon of fun and interaction. The visitors came from Animals on the Move, a mobile farmyard that runs ...
Every year, Year 9 students from Billanook College visit the Melbourne CBD as part of their annual City9 experience. The program introduces students to the rich diversity and cultural history of Melbourne.
This week, the synod centre will host 96 Billanook College students and their teachers as they embark on their City9 journey. The synod centre provides ...
The nominations of Waleed Aly and Lee Lin Chin for the 2016 Gold Logie created an opinionated storm in the Australian media this week.
Following the announcement, The Daily Telegraph published an article titled ‘Six reasons why Waleed Aly should not win Gold’. Today show host Karl Stefanovic joked ...
Men’s sheds are a common sight at many Uniting Churches. Warragul Uniting Church has added a unique spin to the popular tradition with the Warragul Train Shed.
The centrepiece of the train shed is a model railway set built by a former member of the congregation, Don Breeden. When Don passed away in 2013, his wife, June, ...
