When 89-year-old Reginald Rigby suffered a serious fall at home earlier this month and broke his left shoulder, hospital staff offered him the choice of recovering in respite care or at an aged care home.
Neither sounded appealing for Mr Rigby who wanted to remain in his own home in the town of Penguin, on Tasmania’s North-West coast, and ...
Melbourne Lord Mayor Robert Doyle says attempts by the Greens to decriminalise begging will rob the city of the only means it has to divert people off the streets and get them appropriate help.
The proliferation of beggars around Flinders St station and major CBD thoroughfares continues to be a contentious issue and Cr Doyle said that being able ...
The heatwave that left the large swathes of the northern (from a Victorian’s point of view) states sweltering this week did not spare the young and not-so-young attending Yurora 2017.
Thankfully on Tuesday the North East Victoria delegation attending the National Christian Youth Convention (NCYC) at Stanwell Tops, south of Sydney, found a nicely shaded spot to enjoy some lunch for the ...
Aged care provider Uniting AgeWell will make its presence felt at one of Australia’s biggest festivals of gay and alternative sexualities.
The agency will be represented by a stand at the Midsumma Festival’s opening event, the Midsumma Carnival, this Sunday on the lawns of Alexandra Gardens in Melbourne.
Chair of the Uniting AgeWell Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex (LGBTI) ...
A life that epitomised post-war Hollywood glamour and popular operatic romance will be celebrated next month in a show that will also help out those fleeing war and persecution.
A special charity performance of Lanza Sings Again is being staged at the Brighton Town Hall in Melbourne’s south-east before the production begins a national tour.
It features opera star Roy Best as Mario Lanza, the telegenic American tenor who went ...
Young people were challenged to make a personal proclamation to follow Jesus during Sunday night’s opening worship rally at Yurora, the Uniting Church’s flagship national youth event.
Congress pastor Uncle Ray Minniecon delivered a stirring message to set the tone of the National Christian Youth Convention, or NCYC as it is better known.
As 2016 draws to a close, Crosslight looks back on the biggest stories from this year.
On the political front, 2016 was a tumultuous year with plenty of shocks and surprises. The Australian federal election became a marathon as the Liberal Party narrowly edged the Australian Labor Party following eight days of counting.
For Christians the birth of Jesus is not just an historical event to be marked on Christmas Day but is an ongoing story of the way that God is at work in the world.
The period of Advent leading up to Christmas is for many an important time to reflect upon this, as moderator Sharon Hollis notes.
This Christmas look for Jesus outside the box, the spiritual leader of the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania says.
In a video message sent to congregations, Uniting Church moderator Rev Sharon Hollis said that early in her ordained ministry she discovered that an Anglican priest had an unexpected take on the traditional nativity scene in ...
For Christians the birth of Jesus is not just an historical event to be marked on Christmas Day but is an ongoing story of the way that God is at work in the world.
The period of Advent leading up to Christmas is for many an important time to reflect upon this, as moderator Sharon Hollis notes.
For Christians the birth of Jesus is not just an historical event to be marked on Christmas Day but is an ongoing story of the way that God is at work in the world.
The period of Advent leading up to Christmas is for many an important time to reflect upon this, as moderator Sharon Hollis notes.
For Christians the birth of Jesus is not just an historical event to be marked on Christmas Day but is an ongoing story of the way that God is at work in the world.
The period of Advent leading up to Christmas is for many an important time to reflect upon this, as moderator Sharon Hollis notes.
