Anglicare Australia
Anglicare Australia‟s annual Rental Affordability Snapshot released today by executive director Kasy Chambers shows the private rental market has failed Australians living on low incomes.
by Dr Charles Livingstone
The pokie lobby has declared victory in its campaign against the Wilkie reforms. Despite this declaration, they have maintained an online presence, thoughtfully reminding us of their arguments.
One of these is that the pokie losses of punters are justified by the funds they provide to sustain junior sport, local charities, and countless other acts of benevolence.
As the...
It's lovely to have the kind of conversation when someone looks back in astonishment as they measure their own growth and progress.
Last night, a big man told me how he was brought up to be an extreme racist. He didn't know he was a racist because everyone in his community were agreed about which other races were the cause of all ills in the world. It was only as he came to this country...
by Susan Ryan AO
We are living in an economy where we hear daily complaints from employers about skills shortages, and constant calls to government to bring in more skilled workers.
Yet at the same time, we know millions of Australians want to work longer and are capable of working for many years beyond the age pension age.
So what is stopping them?
As the Age Discrimination Commissioner at the...
by Rev Alastair Macrae
In the lead up to the International Day of Tolerance, President of the Uniting Church in Australia, Rev Alistair Macrae, reflected on the nature of tolerance and its relationship to love in the bible.
In his moving apology to the First Peoples in February 2008, then-prime minister Kevin Rudd spoke of the 'unfinished business' of our nation.
He likened aspects of our history to a 'stain on our soul'. Most importantly, however, he spoke of hope - of a way in which all the people of our nation may be truly reconciled to the past in order to build a strong future together.
UnitingCare Australia’s National Director Lin Hatfield Dodds has said social services staff could now look forward to adequate wages for the essential work they do.
But speaking shortly after Fair Work Australia handed down its equal remuneration decision, Ms Hatfield Dodds said there’s work to be done yet.
“The Federal Government has shown real leadership on this issue by...
The poorest of the poor continue to miss out on basic medical treatment, according to the Uniting Church’s Exodus Foundation, leaving them prone to major illness.
In 1958, the Reverend Ralph Sutton, a young and energetic leader from the Western Australian Wesley Mission, now part of UnitingCare was approached by Bernice Moorhouse, a young woman with a hearing impairment who wanted to find meaningful employment. Her request struck a chord with Reverend Sutton, and he asked members of his parish to donate items of clothing, which were sorted, laundered and...
There is a world of difference between the idea of hope, and hope. We control freaks have a lot of trouble with this distinction and it sometimes, maybe always it takes the collapse of all means, desires and aims for hope to lift and transform.
Nearly three years ago my beautiful son, who filled a room when he entered with the love of life and love of people, suddenly died. Thank God for the...
