Rev Rronang Garrawurra, chairperson of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC), stands in front of Parliament House as part of a vigil for ‘A Destiny Together: A Week of Prayer and Fasting for Justice for First Peoples’.
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The 2014 school year is well and truly underway. Many Uniting Church school chaplains are busying themselves in new roles, while others are moving on after many years of committed service.
Arthur Drummond recently retired from his position at Ballarat and Clarendon College. Since 1971 Mr Drummond has occupied many positions at the college including stints teaching maths and ...
Approximately 130 people attended a forum – ‘Accommodation in Retirement: Considering the Options’ – last month at the Forest Street Uniting Church hall in Bendigo.
The idea for the forum came from Bruce Keeling, a member of St Andrew’s UC Bendigo.
Mr Keeling suggested to the Central Bendigo Cluster Education Committee in August last year that the church should ...
The Justice and International Mission (JIM) unit has funded an investigation into five seafood processing facilities run by one of the largest seafood companies in Thailand. The company supplies Australian businesses such as Coles, ALDI, Nestlé and John West (a brand owned by Simplot in Australia).
One of the facilities investigated was largely compliant with Thai labour law and the ...
In February, five Christians and an atheist debated at The Wheeler Centre ‘for’ or ‘against’ the statement: ‘Faith-based religious education has no place in public schools’.
A full house, as well as long lines behind the audience participation microphones, demonstrated public interest in the issue – traditionally fraught with controversy and passion – is as high as ever.
First to ...
If it is true that the Hobart North Uniting Church, on the fringe of the city’s central business district, had previously been invisible in one of the city’s best known restaurant strips, it is certainly not the case now.
A $1.4 million redevelopment – officially opened on 2 March – has transformed the site into a contemporary building which commands ...
Tasmanians overwhelmingly endorsed the Liberal Party in the State election on 15 March.
The Liberals won 15 seats in the 25-seat Lower House on the back of polling more than 52 per cent of the first preference vote across the five electorates. Labor won seven seats and the Greens three
Each of Tasmania’s five electorates returns five members. The Liberals ...
Nearly 90 people (aged from 18 months to 70 years and older) gathered at Adekate campsite in Creswick over the March long weekend to spend time together having fun, worshipping God and thinking about energy and sustainability.
This was the fourth annual synod social justice family camp which offers people time to be together with other families and reflect on ...
Throughout the month of March more than 400 Pancake Day events were held in schools, churches and community organisations to help raise money for UnitingCare’s Homelessness programs.
UnitingCare’s annual Pancake Day was launched in Melbourne’s Federation Square on 2 March.
More than 2000 pancakes were sold with the help of ambassadors Brian Nankervis (from the TV program ‘RockWiz’), Janelle Bloom ...
The Major Strategic Review (MSR) needs your input.
Resolved at Synod 2013 to develop a strategic vision for the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, one of the first stages of the MSR program is to find out how members view the church and what they want for its future.
This process is being initially conducted through a questionnaire inserted in ...
UCA Funds Management recently announced it will no longer invest in companies involved in mining or exporting thermal coal, as well as companies profiting from unconventional fossil fuels.
The Fossil Fuel Policy has been developed in response to community concern regarding the environmental impact of fossil fuel mining.
The policy will also exclude companies that extract or refine unconventional oil ...
On 18 March, on the lawns in front of Parliament House in Canberra, approximately 300 members of the Uniting Church in Australia gathered for an act of public worship.
The vigil was part of ‘A Destiny Together: A Week of Prayer and ...
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