“We need to keep talking about these issues, we need to keep caring for each other. It’s an issue that’s very close to my heart and an issue I am passionate about.”
Moderator Rev Sharon Hollis backed up those words delivered to a carers’ lunch in Tasmania by attending three Mental Health Week-themed events in three days ...
A recent study by ACOSS (Australian Council of Social Service) found that more than 3 million Australians live below the poverty line. Throughout anti-poverty week, much discussion has focussed on young school-leavers, generational welfare dependence, lone-parent families and older people living on the pension. A group which is largely overlooked in ...
Last week in Melbourne at the launch of the Living Stones campaign, the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Reverend Dr Olav Fyske Tveit highlighted that next year Palestinian Christians will have been living under Israeli military occupation for 50 years.
He was speaking at the lunchtime release of the Uniting Church’s Living Stones website, which provides ...
The Uniting Church is calling on the Pakistani government to repeal the country’s blasphemy laws as Christian woman Asia Bibi continues to languish on death row.
In 2009, Ms Bibi was involved in a dispute at a well where she and her fellow farmhands were fetching water. One of her co-workers, who noticed Ms Bibi drinking a cup of ...
Nearly 30 years ago, former Prime Minister Bob Hawke declared he wanted no Australian child living in poverty by 1990.
But more children live under the poverty line today compared to a decade ago, according to a new report released by ACOSS (Australian Council of Social Service).
The report, prepared by ACOSS in collaboration with the Social Policy ...
Moderator Sharon Hollis told a lunch for mental health carers at Clarence Uniting Church in Hobart on Wednesday that they were sending out an important message in an area that is still often shrouded in shame and silence.
“Mental health is one of the most stigmatised illnesses in our community,” Ms Hollis told the gathering of 30 people who had ...
Overnight the First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at a New Hampshire event in support of Hilary Clinton.
Repeatedly Obama referred to Donald Trump solely as ‘the Opponent’ and stated that the role of President requires a candidate who can observe ‘basic decency’.
It is a powerful speech. Obama commands the room with her direct language and emotion. She describes how ...
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As Garth Jones noted in his Crosslight feature Unexpected Rainbow in Outback Australia, the 2004 marriage act amendment was legislated without any call for a referendum.
How the wind changes! In July we rejoiced over an optimistic, courageous decision; now that decision has been blown away, overturned. One could understand this if mistakes had been made, but this one seems to have come about because of the evils and temptations of pressure, power and money.
The number of deaths by suicide is at its highest rate in a decade, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
In 2015, more than 3000 Australians lost their lives to suicide, with Tasmania experiencing the largest rate of increase from 2014.
For every death from suicide, an estimated 60 people are directly affected.
DAVID SOUTHWELL
The recent ruckus over the ‘Budgie Nine’ is a reminder that however globalised the world might sometimes seem, cultural assumptions and understandings cannot be blithely assumed to be universal.
This was a harsh truth learnt by the young Australians who were arrested, detained for four days but fortunately released by ...
While most Uniting Church ministers spend their Sunday mornings preparing to lead a worship service, on Sunday 16 October Rev Nigel Hanscamp will be preparing to line up with more than 30,000 runners to complete the Melbourne Marathon.
Long-distance running is a relatively new past time for the Heathmont Uniting Church minister. Five years ago, while living in New ...
