UnitingCare’s Biala has welcomed a $22,000 funding grant from a philanthropic trust to enable them to continue to provide vital respite services to children.
A not-for-profit centre, Biala doesn’t receive any government funding so relies on trusts and donations.
Established in 1981, Biala provides respite to local families with children who have additional needs. It operates from Ringwood Uniting Church ...
Victorian Uniting Church Chaplains have come together for education and peer development in two separate gatherings in recent months. One gathering shared regional and metropolitan experiences, the other was for chaplains working in the prison system.
Deborah Kottek leads chaplaincy management and development for the synod. She has direct line management of chaplains that work in prisons across the state ...
Tax evasion by multinational companies costs Australia billions of dollars every year. Money that could fund vital public services, such as healthcare and education, is lost to overseas corporations through tax breaks and various legal loopholes.
The Global Week of Action for Tax Justice runs from 16 to 23 June and is an opportunity to put tax evasion on the ...
Refugee Week is an opportunity to recognise the positive contributions refugees make to Australian society.
This year, Refugee Week is celebrated from 14 to 20 June with the theme ‘with courage let us all combine’. Taken from the second verse of the national anthem, the theme invites Australians to reflect on the courage of refugees in fleeing ...
Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey caused a storm this week when he advised first-home buyers to “get a good job that pays good money“.
His comments have been criticised by social welfare agencies for ignoring the root causes of unaffordable housing.
Rising housing prices across the country, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, have pushed residential property ...
Author, activist and psychologist Steve Biddulph was recognised with a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list announced on Monday.
Mr Biddulph, a member of the Pilgrim Uniting Church, in Launceston, was recognised for his contributions to community health and as an author and educator.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” -Greek Proverb.
World Environment Day, celebrated on 5 June every year, is an opportunity for the Uniting Church to reflect on its role in safeguarding God’s creation.
The Uniting Church believes the natural environment is not just a resource ...
The reports coming out of Switzerland indicate that Sepp Blatter presided over the most ludicrous of rackets, treating an organisation that represents the “world game” as a banana republic. Since rising to the post of president in 1998, Mr Blatter has pretty much been re-elected unopposed, cementing his position as commander-in-chief.
National Reconciliation Week concludes on Wednesday, but does that mean we don’t think about the meaning of reconciliation for another year?
Indigenous activist and elder Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM reminded us to continue the conversation when she spoke last Thursday night at the Highway Gallery, Mount Waverley in an event organised by ‘concerned Australians’ and Monash Reconciliation Group.
Earlier this week, three Muslim women were verbally abused by two men on a packed Melbourne train.
Jason Cias, a commuter on his way home from work, confronted the two men when they threatened to “smash” the women. One of the men punched Mr Cias in retaliation before moving to another carriage.
For the past few days, people in the southern states have shivered their way to work.
This foretaste of winter causes most of us to grumble. The days are short, and the snooze button gets a workout as it becomes harder to leave the confines of a warm doona.
With morning temperatures dropping to below five degrees, beanies and ...
On 26 May 1997, the ‘Bringing Them Home’ report on the Stolen Generation was tabled in the federal parliament. National Sorry Day was born the following year as an annual reminder of the forced removals of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children that occurred under government policies.
The Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) believes that ...
