UnitingCare Australia has welcomed the federal government’s announcement of the Try, Test and Learn Fund as part of its vision to overhaul the welfare system.
On Tuesday, Social Services Minister Christian Porter outlined a plan to reduce intergenerational welfare dependency through an investment approach to welfare reform. This identifies groups most at risk of falling into the ‘welfare trap’ ...
Nestled on the banks of the Avoca River, the regional town of Charlton in Victoria’s north-west was one of the communities affected by last week’s floods.
Last Friday, the Avoca River peaked at a height of 7.55 metres, causing major flooding to roads and threatened to inundate the town.
Rev Veronica Bradley, minister at Charlton Uniting Church, lives next to ...
In the 65 years from 1788 in Australia, 25,655 women were transported from Britain and Ireland as convicts.
Most of these women have been known simply by their assigned convict number rather than as people. Rarely has the positive impact they made to the fledgling colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land been acknowledged.
Leaders from around the world will gather at New York on Monday to discuss the international response to the global refugee crisis.
This historic UN General Assembly summit aims to establish a more humane and coordinated blueprint to address the large-scale movements of refugees and migrants.
An estimated 65 million people are displaced throughout the world due to conflict ...
The sound of someone getting their sight back is often no sound at all.
That’s one of the things Uniting Church minister Rev Dona Spencer learnt when she observed eye cataract surgery patients in Kenya discovering if their operations had been successful.
“We were there in the hospital as they took off their bandages,” Ms Spencer said.
The future of the Uniting Church was on show at the 2016 National Young Adult Leaders Conference (NYALC) held on the Gold Coast in July.
Approximately 130 young adults and mentors from various synods congregated at Burleigh Heads over the course of six days. This diverse group of participants traded stories and experiences as they grew together ...
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A new single board will assume governance responsibility for 22 Uniting Church community service agencies from Monday 3 October. The emerging organisation will be known as ‘Uniting’.
In June last year, the Synod Standing Committee (SSC) resolved to establish a single governance board to oversee service delivery and support functions for all community service across Victoria and Tasmania. ...
In 2015, the 14th Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia agreed to support Constitutional Recognition as “… a step towards and not a blockage to the larger issues of sovereignty and treaty”.
The Assembly also committed to work with the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) to educate members of the Church about the need for a ...
Silvia Yang can’t escape the feeling that God has had a hand in her new role as CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) relationship officer for the Uniting Church.
More than 10 years ago, when Silvia was struggling with the difficult decision to give up her life in Korea to support her children studying in Melbourne, it was her local ...
Keiah knows firsthand the importance of education. An Aboriginal woman of the Yorta Yorta nation, she provides literacy support to inmates at Langi Kal Kal prison, 140 kilometres west of Melbourne.
“At least a quarter of the prisoners don’t have basic literacy skills and can’t read at all,” Keiah said.
This week saw two vastly contrasting speeches on the Senate floor.
New Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy, a Yanyuwa woman from the Northern Territory, spoke about welcoming migrants, Constitutional recognition, homelessness and domestic violence. She also shared the heartbreaking story of a young LGBTI relative whom she lost to suicide.
The Uniting Church is being swamped by Muslims – and it’s a wonderful thing.
All across the country Muslim leaders and community members have been reaching out to Uniting Church members to build our friendship as people of faith.
What were at first tentative steps are now rushing ahead apace.
