UnitingCare Australia has voiced concern over the recent abolition of the Dementia and Severe Behaviour Supplement.
UnitingCare National Director Lin Hatfield Dodds said the supplement was essential for the additional cost incurred by those supporting severely disabled individuals.
“The Dementia and Severe Behaviour Supplement was introduced to meet the additional costs of caring for people with severe needs. While that ...
In response to recent budget cuts affecting people with disabilities a Bust the Budget march supporting people with disabilities has been organised for 11 July in Melbourne.
People with disabilities, their carers, families and supporters are being urged to attend and support the march.
Uniting Church Moderator Dan Wootton recently wrote to Prime Minister Tony Abbott to voice concerns ...
In a sharp contrast to the largely middle-class post-budget marches and student protest rallies in Melbourne and other Australian capitals, today’s march from Trades Hall to Parliament House was made up principally of union workers.
With flags from the CFMEU, Plumbers Union, United Voice, ANIMF, CPSU and NIW displayed, a large cross-section of employed workers took ...
The old saying states that neither religion nor politics should be discussed in polite company. So what happens when you combine the two? This month we speak with those from the Church whose views would more closely align with the words of Indian revolutionary Mahatma Gandhi: “Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know ...
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse will deliver an interim report towards the end of this month. The Commission is expected to ask for a two-year extension, primarily to ensure all private sessions can be completed.
The Royal Commission is currently hearing its 12th case study, an independent private school in Perth. Instead of releasing all its ...
Yarra Ranges Uniting Church minister Jennie Gordon led a special pre-match minute’s silence before Australia’s first Aussie-rules gay pride game. Rev Gordon encouraged those attending to remember same-sex attracted young people who had taken their own lives because they did not feel loved or accepted and to ask for, and accept, forgiveness from same-sex attracted young people they may have ...
Winter has well and truly arrived in the southern states of Australia. For many, the cold weather signals the inconvenience of commuting in the dark punctuated by lazy weekends in front of the fire watching your team play footy on TV.
The appearance this morning in Melbourne of a hot-air balloon resembling the statue of Christ the Redeemer from Rio de Janeiro, bearing the advertorial legend of Sportsbet, has been criticised for causing offence to the religious faithful.
Released as a marketing stunt to promote the betting company’s activities in advance of the upcoming World Cup games in Brazil, the appearance ...
The Uniting Church in Australia has named racism as a sin in a strongly-worded submission to the Federal Government’s proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act.
The submission, prepared by UnitingJustice, called on the Federal Government to abandon its plans to repeal the provisions that offer protection against offence, insult and humiliation and refocus the definition of intimidation narrowly on ...
The SacredEdge festival at Queenscliff Uniting Church last month was a true example of placing those at the edges of society at the centre of the Church. The mood, both sacred and festive, instilled a genuine sense of warmth into the connections made ...
The University of Divinity (UD) has accepted two newly reconfigured colleges – the Pilgrim Theological College (PTC) and the Trinity College Theological School (TCTS) – into the university. PTC is an expanded program of the Uniting Church Theological College.
It follows a decision to close the United Faculty of Theology at the end of this year.
Advocacy and welfare groups have criticised the 2014 Federal Budget over wide-ranging cuts to welfare, education and support services.
The Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia has urged the Federal Government to maintain the closest possible scrutiny on how Australia’s most vulnerable are affected by the tough changes in the Federal Budget.
