Share has pledged just under $1 million to more than 20 UnitingCare agencies throughout Victoria and Tasmania. It comes after the Federal Government announced it will cut $271 million to social service grants across Australia.
Director of Share, Angela Goodwin, said distributing the funds is an important initiative in a bid to help agencies provide ...
A Four Corners investigation earlier this year revealed that overseas workers are being trafficked to Australia and forced to work long hours for low pay.
The report revealed that some migrants worked up to 22 hours a day for as low as $4 an hour.
The main industries implicated in the labour exploitation schemes were construction, hospitality, and fresh ...
The world is today witnessing the largest refugee crisis since World War II. Conflict, civil war and persecution have forced nearly 60 million people to flee their homes and seek safety elsewhere.
The last year alone saw an increase of more than 8 million refugees worldwide, the biggest yearly increase in recorded history. Over half of the world’s refugees ...
The Uniting Church in Australia will officially support the People’s Climate Marches taking place around Australia and the world in November.
The marches are scheduled for the weekend of 27-29 November 2015, ahead of UN climate talks in Paris. They are expected to take place in hundreds of major cities throughout the world. The Melbourne march will begin at ...
More than 100 people gathered at the Centre for Theology and Ministry last weekend for the annual Justice and International Mission unit convention.
This year’s convention explored the theme ‘What kind of Australia do we want to be?’
The convention opened with an acknowledgement of country by Rev Ken Sumner, Victorian state director for the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander ...
Australia will have a new Prime Minister following the dramatic leadership spill on Monday night. In the space of a few hours, Malcolm Turnbull replaced Tony Abbott as leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and became the 29th Prime Minister of Australia.
While it is easy to create caricatures out of public figures, behind every politician ...
The Australian Government’s decision to increase Australia’s refugee intake by 12,000 has galvanised advocacy groups and community members into action.
As the Syrian refugee crisis continues to unfold many Church and other community groups are putting their hands up with offers of practical assistance and support.
A range of NGOs, including representatives from UnitingCare, is meeting with senior government ...
By Cath Taylor
Mother Theresa is credited with saying: “We cannot do great things, only small things with great love.”
Sometimes, perhaps we can do both.
Kakuma refugee camp is a sprawling mass of humanity on the border between Kenya and South Sudan. Under canvas and tin supplied by the UNHCR and the Kenyan government, more than 150,000 ...
Crosslight was named Publication of the Year at the annual conference of the Australasian Religious Press Association (ARPA) in Brisbane in late August.
The annual trophy award is one of two prestigious awards presented at the dinner ceremony; the first is the Gutenberg Award, the presidential award presented to a person or publication for overall excellence in religious communication. The ...
The Uniting Church in Australia has been quick to respond to what has been termed the worst refugee crisis since the end of the Second World War.
It is estimated that more than 9 million people have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011. Many of those have sought shelter in neighbouring countries ...
130 Little Collins Street, home to the synod-based ministries and operations since 1967, will be demolished in 2019 to make way for a new development, pending State Government approvals.
This follows the decision by the Synod Standing Committee to enter into a joint venture partnership to construct a mixed-use accommodation hotel and residential apartment building.
By Penny Mulvey
I cannot tell anyone exactly what it is that you actually go through with sexual abuse. It’s not just something that has an impact on you at the time; it’s something that lasts forever. (Philip Constable)
Mr Constable is a former student at Geelong Grammar. His statement was one of several presented as part of Case Study 32 ...
