Bust the Budget: Disability Support & Rights march – 11 July 2014
In response to recent budget cuts affecting people with disabilities a Bust the Budget march supporting people with disabilities has been organised for 11 July in Melbourne.
VIC Workers March on Parliament
In a sharp contrast to the largely middle-class post-budget marches and student protest rallies in Melbourne and other Australian capitals, today’s march from Trades Hall to Parliament House was made up principally of un
Putting the protest into Protestant
The old saying states that neither religion nor politics should be discussed in polite company.
Tribute to a friend
Rev Ojitha Goonetilleke More than 200 people attended a farewell lunch for Rev Ojitha Goonetilleke (pictured), who retired from full-time ministry at the end of April.
The evil of ‘othering’
It’s part of human nature to secure identity by rivalry, building barriers, erecting implacable oppositions of ‘us’ and ‘them’.
News of the Royal Commission
Stuffed bear made by the Pentridge toy makers prison The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse will deliver an interim report towards the end of this month.
Faith in a pluralist society
Miroslav Volf By Penny Mulvey Imagine a world in the not-so-distant future where Christians and Muslims and people of other faiths and no faith work together, holding to their own distinct perspective, but listening and
Footy pride
Jennie Gordon (centre) delivered a reflection before the Gay Pride match in Yarra Glen last month.
KUCA thanks
Margaret Hammon was recently recognised for 30 years of dedication to the KUCA (Kids of the Uniting Church in Australia) club.
The presence of the past
Moderator Dan Wootton standing in front of the giant kauri tree in the Waipoua Forest of the Northland Region. “I have a lofty tree upon one of my estates at New South Wales. It stands upon the summit of a hill.