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.
Wesley Mission Victoria is breaking down generational barriers through an innovative home sharing program.
Eighty-year-old Lorraine La’Brooy joined Wesley Mission Victoria’s Homeshare program earlier this year. She wanted to continue living in her home in Edithvale, but also needed someone to assist her occasionally around the house.
Nothing could have prepared me for the shocking reality facing refugees living in Akula camp, on the border of Ethiopia and South Sudan. Walking into Akula I was immediately aware that the refugees living there had next to nothing. It was extremely hot, dry and dusty and their homes were made from torn UNHCR tents and anything ...
Throughout the past month, the weather in Melbourne has lived up to the cliché ‘four seasons in one day’. While Melburnians have been inconvenienced by the threat of sunstroke and torrential downpours in the space of a few hours, for those living in the country the weather is no laughing matter.
For almost 150 years the Penguin Uniting Church has worshipped on the same spot opposite the Bass Strait foreshore of the small north-west Tasmanian town.
In that time the church has become an integral community landmark and a beacon for many events and gatherings, both large and small.
Last month marked the launch of the 24th annual UnitingCare and Target Christmas Appeal, which has distributed more than 2 million gifts to local people who are doing it tough.
In past years the appeal focused on collection of gifts for distribution throughout the community. This will continue this year, and agencies will ensure that all donated gifts will ...
