International Workers’ Memorial Day is observed today in Australia and more than 100 countries around the world, following Canada’s first remembrance of persons killed from work-related causes in 1991.
Sadly, two members of Victoria’s magistracy and countless others who have ended their lives, due at least in part to their work, will not be counted in WorkSafe Victoria’s official ...
Uniting Church members from around Australia will come together in prayerful community at Box Hill Town Hall in July for the 15th Assembly meeting.
On Sunday 8 July, members of the 15th Assembly will install Dr Deidre Palmer as President, the second woman to hold that leadership position.
The Synod of Victoria and Tasmania and other non-profit organisations have called on Australian fashion brands to sign a critical safety accord on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse.
The collapse claimed the lives of more than 1100 workers in Bangladesh and led to a global campaign to prevent a repeat.
GAVIN BLAKEMORE
This month marks 125 years since the Central Methodist Mission was created in response to the growing social needs in Melbourne.
In 1892, the Methodist conference established CMM – which went on to become Uniting Wesley – as part of Wesley Church. Rev Alexander Robert Edgar was appointed Superintendent Minister.
JIM FOLEY
More than 60 people seeking asylum in Australia enjoyed a “great day out” at a well-attended community picnic in Castlemaine Botanical Gardens.
On a recent sunny Saturday people from the Lentara Asylum Seeker Welcome Centre and the Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project in Melbourne experienced the hospitality of the Harcourt Uniting Church and Rural Australians for Refugees plus ...
Easter is always a busy period for Beechworth-Stanley Yackandandah Uniting Church in north-eastern Victoria. Chair of the church council Don Pope takes Crosslight readers on a photo tour of the community’s Easter celebrations.
“This year we staged a number of activities as individual congregations and in conjunction with the Combined Christians of Beechworth,” he writes.
The power of story was a central theme of the Voices of Strength cultural gathering held at the Leprena centre in Hobart on 18 April.
Approximately 130 people attended the event to launch the Voices of Strength book, which is a collection of women’s stories and artwork collated by writer and historian Terry Whitebeach.
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Ice creams, a sausage sizzle and bargains greeted customers at the March Community Day to celebrate the opening of the new Uniting Ballarat op shop.
The shop has moved from its previous home near the Ballarat Central Uniting Church to a building in Delacombe, a suburb of Ballarat. It offers easier parking and a ...
Presbytery child safe project officer Anne Kim says that even though she has the daunting task of liaising with 130 congregations there is plenty to encourage her.
Since late 2016, Anne has been busy making sure synod’s Keeping Children Safe policy and practices are understood and operating effectively in the churches that form the Port Phillip East ...
DAVID SOUTHWELL
For six months of the year Bairnsdale Uniting Church becomes the second spiritual home for a group of men from Vanuatu.
The current group will be returning to Vanuatu early this month and for some it has been their third time working on a 500-acre organic vegetable farm in East Gippsland. From November to ...
While footy umpires can be targets of criticism and abuse on any given Saturday, it’s the potential feedback he might get on a Sunday that concerns Leongatha Uniting Church minister Rev Paul Bauer.
Paul has picked up the flags again this season to be a goal umpire, something he has done for 25 years with ...
Uniting Vic.Tas will trial a new service to ensure out-of-home care siblings remain together for as long as possible.
On average, 25 percent of children who enter into foster care in Victoria are separated from their siblings.
The Siblings Support and Placement Service, the first program of its kind in Australia, will help keep siblings together. It ...
