Oxfam Australia has published its annual list of ‘naughty or nice’ fashion brands to help shoppers make ethical purchases this Christmas.
Since the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013, numerous clothing companies have pledged to improve workers’ safety by updating their codes of conduct and improving transparency.
Rival protests proved only a minor distraction for those attending this year’s Time for Remembering ceremony at Parliament House on Sunday.
Synod disability and inclusion office Rev Andy Calder, who was ceremony convenor, said the annual event had once again been “a great comfort and support” for those affected by road trauma.
Teenage Tasmanian Indigenous artist Grace Williams has been the driving force behind two distinctive pieces of artwork which have pride of place at Leprena, the southern Tasmanian home of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress.
Working collaboratively with other young Indigenous people, 18-year-old Grace designed a mural for the back fence of the property. The mural portrays the young ...
The Victorian and Tasmanian Synod has called Rev David Withers as strategic framework minister to join the team implementing the Church’s renewed vision of spiritual and strategic discernment.
Mr Withers started in the role last month and is looking forward to the diverse nature of his work as he helps the Church live out the Vision and ...
The aged care sector is facing testing times as providers seek to retain the quality of their service while faced with significant reduction of government funds.
However, this is a challenge that Andrew Kinnersly (pictured) is prepared to meet as he takes up the role of Uniting AgeWell (UA) Chief Executive Officer.
CATH TAYLOR
The halving of extreme poverty over the last two decades is one of the biggest success stories in recent human history. But chances are you haven’t heard about it.
A recent global study ‘Glocalities’, carried out by Dutch agency Motivaction, found that worldwide, only one-in-a-hundred people correctly identified that global poverty has actually halved. In Australia 90 per ...
Evidence presented over the last three years to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has demonstrated that many institutions have failed the people they are supposed to serve.
Witnesses before the commission have told harrowing stories of betrayal, a lifetime of suffering, addictions and brokenness caused by the sexual, physical and psychological abuse ...
Uniting Church member Shirley Johnson’s award-winning gardens may not quite stop traffic but they do slow it down.
Ms Johnson, who attends the Church of All Nations in Carlton, has been named Gardening Australia magazine’s Gardener of the Year. She also won the magazine’s community garden category for her efforts in making the traffic obstacles in her North Fitzroy ...
JESS XAVIER
In Zimbabwe’s Masvingo region the ground is dry and dusty. It hasn’t rained in months. Overall lower rainfall and rising temperatures, due to climate change, mean traditional farming techniques are no longer working, and for many farmers, crops have failed for the third year in a row.
While many families rely on government food aid to survive, there ...
Twenty-five years ago an idea for a fundraising venture was put to a Kangaroo Flat Uniting Church UCAF meeting – making Christmas puddings for sale. Profits would then be distributed between church funds, local charities and organisations under the banner of the Uniting Church.
Production of these puddings had humble beginnings in the church hall and kitchen. ...
The announcement in November that international power company Engie would close the Hazelwood coal mine in March next year shone a spotlight on the town of Morwell in the shire of Gippsland.
So it was a timely coincidence that the moderator of Vic/Tas chose Warragul Uniting Church as the venue for a lunchtime chat about the importance of resilience ...
On Wednesday, 9 November, more than 300 people packed Wesley Uniting Church for the Victorian Council of Churches’ Christian Perspectives on Treaty, Sovereignty and Constitutional Recognition forum.
The evening focused on thoughtful and respectful dialogue on the path to Treaty with Australia’s First Peoples.
Noting the solemn mood – in the wake of news of Donald Trump’s ...
