Uniting for Change is an online community to promote fairness, opportunity and hope.

The website has three parts: a community, campaigns and the collaborative workspace for services.

The online community is where you can read ideas and opinions and contribute your own.

The website will highlight campaigns on issues that are at the heart of community. The first action is poker machines. Did you know you can lose $1,200 an hour on a poker machine in Australia? Apart from the financial hardship this causes the social costs of problem gambling are serious: suicide, depression, relationship breakdown, lower work productivity, job losses, bankruptcy and crime.

You can get information on poker machines and you can Act Now to be a part of the solution. 

Community service providers in the UnitingCare Australia network can join the collaborative workspace to bring your knowledge together to inform decision makers and public opinion.

Here are some ideas for getting involved for citizens, congregations and community services.

And, you can always contact us to share your ideas and feedback. 

There are many ways to be Uniting for Change — both online and in your local community. Here are some ideas for citizens, congregations and community services.

Citizens

Talk with people in your local community about fairness, opportunity and hope.

Take part in the Uniting for Change community by visiting regularly and sharing your views.

Read more about gambling — an issue that goes to the heart of community and where we have an opportunity for change.

Write to your local MP about Uniting for Change on gambling. 

Congregations

Talk with people in your local church about fairness, opportunity and hope.

Download a message about Uniting for Change for your church bulletin.

Download the facts on problem gambling for a discussion in your church and write to your local MP to show your support for change.

Visit the Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce website.

Read about Beyond Slacktivism from the words ‘slacker’ and ‘activism’. Adrian Greenwood writes, “we are well beyond slacktivism and I believe it’s time for us to wake this sleeping giant.”

Or, what about God Goes Viral and the idea, as Lyndal Irons writes, that “churches are being dragged into the biggest cultural shift since the industrial revolution.”

Community services

Use the forum to share your experiences of fairness, opportunity and hope or to write about change.

Download a message about Uniting for Change for your service newsletter.

Take action on gambling — an issue that community services deal with every day.

UnitingCare Australia services can join the collaborative workspace to share information, set the agenda and influence the “hot potato” topics of today.