The Uniting Church is calling for asylum seekers to be brought to Australia immediately in the wake of the uncertainty and furore created by Donald’s Trump’s stated disgust over a deal to resettle them in the US.
In an open statement the Refugee Council of Australia says the situation of asylum seekers being kept on Manus and Nauru islands “has reached ...
The Uniting Church has told a parliamentary inquiry into free speech that it is more vital than ever to keep strong laws against racial vilification.
UnitingJustice Australia National Director Elenie Poulos and Dr Mark Zirnsak of the Justice and International Mission appeared at a Melbourne hearing of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry that is considering ...
According to Rev Gordon Bannon, a gathering in a small town country church can have big things to say to the increasingly fractured wider world about bringing people of different faiths together.
The Uniting Church Loddon Mallee minister spoke at the multifaith service held at Newstead Uniting Church on Sunday. Mr Bannon organised the service along with parish minister Michele ...
Uniting Church representatives were on hand for the solemn task of taking away the hundreds of flowers, cards and toys that expressed an outpouring of community grief and support following the random running down of pedestrians in Bourke St Mall earlier this month.
Premier Daniel Andrews, Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, Chief Commissioner of Police Victoria Graham Ashton, emergency service ...
The Synod of Victoria and Tasmania is calling on the federal government to immediately admit a pregnant refugee on Nauru to an Australian hospital.
According to doctors on the island, the 35-year-old woman from Kuwait is facing life-threatening pregnancy complications and her baby is in breech position. She has a large fibroid or benign tumor on the wall of her ...
Since 1994, Australia Day has been celebrated nationally on 26 January, the day when white settlers first arrived in Australia.
But for many Indigenous Australians, it is a day that marks the dispossession, bloodshed and genocide of Aboriginal people.
A growing number of voices in the Australian community are calling for ...
The President of the Uniting Church in Australia Stuart McMillan has issued a Survival Day message calling on all Australians to show respect and honour for First Peoples on 26 January 2017.
“Our heritage as a nation began long before 1788. It began at creation,” Mr McMillan said.
“I am committed to honouring First Peoples as sovereign over these ...
Congratulations to Rev Alistair Macrae and eight other members of the VicTas synod who have been honoured with awards in today’s Australia Day Honours List.
The former President and Moderator has been named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) “for distinguished service to the Uniting Church in Australia through executive and ministerial roles at ...
Bachelor of Social Work students are getting the chance to learn and develop outside the classroom by doing six-month placements at Uniting AgeWell Manor Lakes Community .
Manor Lakes Care Manager Kimberley Briggs said the Community wanted to provide students with a supportive environment where they can be challenged and gain valuable experience towards their studies.
After 16 years of service and leadership in human rights advocacy, Rev Elenie Poulos will step down as National Director of UnitingJustice Australia.
A prominent public voice on human rights issues, Ms Poulos has played a vital role shaping the Uniting Church’s social justice policies, especially in the areas of refugees and climate change.
Melbourne CBD feels different this Monday morning even as workers sit at their familiar desks while tourists wander the streets. It is not just the floral tribute to those who were killed and injured in Friday’s minutes of insanity by a lone driver evading police, it is the shock, grief and lingering uncertainty about safety in our streets.
ANTONY MCMULLEN
At the height of the Brexit debate in the UK a politician, Jo Cox, was slain by a man reportedly shouting “Britain first”. During the heat of the US election campaign the now President of the US, Donald Trump called for a halt to immigration from Islamic countries, sentiments echoed by One Nation’s Pauline Hanson on her return ...
