UnitingCare ReGen CEO Laurence Alvis has welcomed the federal government’s response to the National Ice Taskforce report.
The taskforce was established in April this year by then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott to advise the federal government on a National Ice Strategy.
According to the report, there are currently more than 200,000 ice users in Australia.
Kildonan UnitingCare volunteer Luis Rodriguez has been recognised for his dedication to newly arrived families in Shepparton with a Victorian Multicultural Award for Excellence.
Luis received the award for Meritorious Service to the Community at a ceremony on Thursday evening. It acknowledges his “outstanding achievements in promoting cultural diversity and inclusion”.
He has spent many years coaching and mentoring newly-arrived ...
In results that might come as a surprise to some, Australians are more religious than many would think.
A recent survey conducted by global research company Ipsos – Perils of Perception 2015 – found that those surveyed greatly underestimated the number of people in Australia who consider themselves religious.
Ourstralia, an initiative of Balmain for Refugees, has created a series of videos to spark conversation and awareness about Australia’s current treatment of asylum seekers.
The online videos are the beginning of a campaign seeking to highlight the excuses made to avoid taking responsibility around the issues of refugees and asylum seekers.
More than 600,000 people from 175 countries – including 130,000 people in Australia – took to the streets over the weekend as part of the People’s Climate March.
The protestors called for stronger climate change action ahead of the upcoming UN climate change summit in Paris.
Melbourne led the way with the biggest turnout globally. An estimated 60,000 people ...
Australia’s mental health system will be overhauled as part of sweeping reforms announced by the Federal Government on Thursday.
The reforms were a response to the National Mental Health Commission’s report released in December last year.
According to the commission, as many as 690,000 Australians live with a “severe” mental illness.
Senators Cory Bernardi and Jacqui Lambie recently questioned Australia’s decision to accept 12,000 Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Two newly-arrived Syrian refugees have provided the perfect counter argument by demonstrating the positive contributions refugees make to Australia.
Johnny and Carol Bilouna were living in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, when violence erupted in 2012.
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The annual 16-days of activism to stop violence against women in Australia begins today with White Ribbon Day and will finish on 10 December, Human Rights Day.
Violence against women is a serious problem throughout the country and Tasmania is no exception.
Research indicates that, nationally, on average one woman is killed every week as a ...
China’s Consular General, Mr Yumin Song, has named Launceston Uniting Church school Scotch Oakburn College as Tasmania’s only Confucius Classroom School.
The honour follows the College’s special relationship with the Chinese Government since the then Year 5 students wrote to President Xi Jingping, inviting him to Tasmania last year.
The students met President Xi on that occasion, and subsequently visited ...
In April this year, Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed in Indonesia alongside six other men.
The executions sparked international backlash and an outpouring of grief at the politically-motivated acts of state-sanctioned murder.
Seven months on, the Indonesian government has announced it will temporarily halt all executions.
Berlin Guerrero (pictured) will be familiar to many Uniting Church members and others more broadly involved in social justice advocacy.
In 2007, the then-United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) pastor was abducted by armed men at a memorial service for a friend who was assassinated in 2006.
UnitingCare ReGen was recently awarded the 2015 Victorian Healthcare Award in the category of ‘Improving health, safety and wellbeing’.
The annual Victorian Healthcare Awards recognise innovative community health programs and organisations.
The award’s categories cover a diverse range of community health areas including mental health, palliative care, physiotherapy and drug and alcohol treatment.
