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Who are we?
We are an
ecumenical, mainstream organization, established in 2008. We aim to
strengthen social justice and ethical structures in Australia; to promote
social justice as a core Christian value; and to further public education
on ethics, current social justice issues and the Christian perspective on
them.
What's new what's different?
Audio Downloads are now available for
our last two forums "Climbing out of recession on the backs of the
unemployed" and "Escaping Oppression Seeking Asylum
and Refuge".
National Homeless Person’s Week: 2-8 August 2010 - the theme for this
year’s National Homeless Person’s Week is: “Will You Be Homeless in
2020?”. Homelessness Australia is the national peak body working to
prevent and respond to homelessness in Australia. Formed in 1998, it seeks
to improve community awareness and understanding of the issues facing the
1 in every 200 Australians who are homeless. (more info).
In July the ABC highlighted a report by the Australian Health and Welfare
Institute which found that the federal pledge of $6 billion to cut homelessness
in half has, so far, failed to achieve its objective. The Institute’s
report found that more than half of the homeless people seeking emergency
accommodation were being turned away. (more
info)

ponders
on his pollen pillow is a book written by Peter Day shedding some
light on the plight of people overwhelmed by mental illness and
homelessness. (more
info or to buy)
A dream of Fr Peter Day was achieved on July 1 with the opening by
patron and former Governor-General Sir William Deane of HOME in Queanbeyan,
a home for 18 men and women with mental illness
Mental Illness
affects 7 out of 10 Australians -
"Susan's story - Keeping minds well" - Wesley Mission

Not so good
news for those with a co-morbid psychiatric and substance disorder -
A double whammy that keeps filling jails - SMH
Calendar of Future CES events: (more
details)
1.
"Is Taxation Immoral?"
When: 7:30 pm Thursday
19th August
Where: The Australian Centre for
Christianity and Culture (ACCC) - Corner of Blackall St and Kings Ave (Map)
Speaker: Dr Terry Dwyer, BEc, MA, PhD (Harvard),
Dip Law
Chair: Jack
Waterford, Editor at Large, Canberra Times
2. Poor Fellow My
Country: Lamenting our Poverty of Spirit
When: 7:30 pm Wednesday
29th September
Where: to be advised - venue will not
be the ACCC
Speaker:
Mr Graeme Mundine, Executive Secretary of National Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Commission
3.
A Fair Share - Consumerism and a 'fair go' in Australia.
When: 7:30 pm Wednesday
3rd November
Where: The Australian Centre for
Christianity and Culture (ACCC) - Corner of Blackall St and Kings Ave (Map)
Speaker: Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director
of the Australia Institute
Non CES Events. (more
details about all the events listed below)
1. “Money
and Power” conference - the Australia Institute and Catalyst
When: 8:30am - 5:00pm 6 August
Where: WatersEdge, 11 Hickson Road, The
Rocks, Sydney
Speaker: Bernie Fraser, Chair Members Equity Bank and
former Governor Reserve Bank of Australia
Maree O’Halloran Director Welfare Rights Centre
Jack Gray Paul Woolley Centre for Capital Market Dysfunctionality, UTS
Ross Buckley Professor of Law, University of NSW
Tony Maher President CFMEU Mining
Joan Staples Visiting fellow, Faculty of Law, University of NSW
Andrew MacIntosh Associate Director, ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy
Rae Cooper Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Sydney University
John Sutton National Secretary CFMEU
Rosanne Kerlin National Director Campaign and Bargaining, FSU
Lee Rhiannon NSW Greens MP
Professor Keith Ewing, Professor of Public Law, Kings College London
Louise Tarrant National Secretary Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous
Union
Ged Kearney President, Australian Council of Trade Unions, and more
2. "Candidates on Drugs" - Public Forum -
Families and Friends for Drug Law
Reform
When: 5:00pm for 5:30pm -
7:30pm Monday 9th August
Where: Johnson Auditorium, Pilgrim House,
69 Northbourne Ave Civic Centre
Speakers: Darren Church (Senate) - Democrat
Lin Hatfield-Dodds (Senate) - Greens
David Matthews (Senate) - Labour
tba - Liberals
3. "Status of Refugees" - Kippax Amnesty International Group
When: 11:00-Noon Monday 9th August
Where: The Kippax Library, Kippax Shops
Speaker: Sr Jane Keogh, Refugee Action Committee
4. “Individual and family
quality of life: a challenge for society and services"
When: 5:00pm Tuesday 10th August
Where: The Australian Catholic
University, Canberra Campus, 223 Antill St, Watson, ACT, 2602
Speaker: Professor Roy Brown
5. “Explore an ethical
Christian response to climate change" - Canberra Region Presbytery,
Social Justice Network
When: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Saturday 4
September
Where: Canberra City Uniting
Church, 69 Northbourne av Civ
Speaker: Bishop George Browning
Dr John Williams
6. “The Future of the
Australian Bill of Rights Debate" - Freilich Foundation
When: 5:30pm Thursday 16 September
Where: Sir Roland Wilson
Building, McCoy circuit, ANU
Speaker: Professor George Williams
7. Assorted "Lunchtime
Forums- 2010" - COTA - Council on the Ageing (ACT)
When: 12:15-1:45pm
Tuesdays
Where: Hughes Community Centre, Wisdom St,
Hughes
Speaker: Various
(more
details about all the events listed above)
Items of potential interest -
please have a look
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Vote
for Hope - John Falzon - Eureka Street
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Is Coalition Economic Policy A Nauru Solution? -
Centre For Policy Development
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Why
conscientious Christians could vote for the Greens - Frank Brennan -
Eureka Street
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Refugees:
Refugee Policy In The 2010 Federal Election Campaign: What The Parties
Are Saying -
Refugee Council of Australia
Meet
a Queue Jumper -
Crikey
Asylum Numbers
in Perspective -
Crikey
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US Congress - Press Release - West Papua - Institute for Papuan
Advocacy & Human Rights
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More than Luck: Ideas that
Australia needs now - Centre for Policy
Development
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MySuper's justified paternalism - Michael Mullins - Eureka Street
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Election year mental health test - Simon Rice - Eureka Street
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To Kill
a Mockingbird and asylum seeker justice - Kerry Murphy - Eureka
Street
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East
Timor a not-so-simple solution - Jack De Groot - Eureka Street
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"The Collapse of Globalism" - John Ralston Saul -
ABC BigIdeas
(Note: This is an audio file)
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Gillard
mining deal betrays the common good - Michael Mullins - Eureka
Street
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Inside story - this week's news articles
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Appetite for Profit ---
Michele
Simon
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Superannuation Changes Fail Fairness Test -
Centre for Policy Development
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Top judge targets tough jail sentences - Joel Gibson - SMH
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The Real Problem with Europe's Economy - Evan Jones -
newmatilda.com
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Abbott
and Australia's new poor - Brian Lawrence - Eureka Street
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Putting a value on nature could set the scene for a true green economy
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Book Pavan Sukhdev Seminar -&-
Centre for Policy Development Seminar
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ACSJC Briefing
June 2010
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Wanted - Poster
Designer - Mental Health Service Consumer day 14 September 2010
Sydney - The Big Issues
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"The
Quest for Justice" (drug related crime) - Supreme Court Judge Ken
Crispin - 7:30 Report (Kerry O'Brien)
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Curtains for
newmatilda.com -
New Matilda
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A
strange time for election watchers -
Inside Story
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World Environment Day 2010 - Many species, one planet, one future -
Uniting Justice news
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Arresting Mexico's borderland femicide - Ellena Savage - Eureka
Street
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Phony
Tony and the Liar's Paradox - Tony Smith - Eureka Street
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Asylum seekers and refugees: what are the facts? -
Parliamentary Library,
Dept of Parliamentary Services
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Labor
complacent as Indigenous gap widens - Jack Waterford - Eureka Street
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Abbott's immigration paranoia - Eureka Street
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The Land Song -
Recent British Election - BBC (background
to the song)
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The
budget of social exclusion - Frank Quinlan - Eureka Street
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Open letter to PM on 2010 Budget - Friends of the Earth Australia
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Making
poverty personal - Simon Moyle - Eureka Street
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Making work pay and making income support work -
Brotherhood of St Lawrence
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Women on the move - evaluating a refugee mentoring pilot program -
Brotherhood of St Lawrence
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Sri
Lanka: anatomy of a tragedy - Inside Story
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Words in a time
of war - Mark Danner - Inside Story
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How to save billions in health costs - John Menadue -
CPD/Croaky
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Catholic Church needs total reform - Bishop Pat Power - Eureka
Street
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An open
letter from Hans Küng to the Catholic bishops of the world -
Hans Küng
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What do
Hans Küng, Geoffrey Robinson, and Pat Power have in common? - Shane
Woods and Peter Hoi - Eureka Street
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When
Harry Hogan went to war - Eureka Street
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A new kind of politics - Uniting Church insights
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Refugee
back flip misses what matters - Andrew Hamilton - Eureka Street
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What
makes an activist Tick? - Helen Caldicott - newmatilda.com
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Why Ali
fled Afghanistan - Frank Brennan - Eureka Street
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Immigration control versus human rights - Kerry Murphy - Eureka
Street
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Australian of the Year (Prof Patrick McGorry) "staggered" by suicide
figures - ABC News
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Uniting Justice joins the campaign
for a Robin Hood Tax -
Uniting Justice
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Nuclear Calendar
- FCNL
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Abbott,
Santamaria and Catholic Liberals - John Warhurst - Eureka Street
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Can Capitalism have a Conscience? - Mark Swivel - newmatilda
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Romero:
faith and power in hard places - Andrew Hamiliton - Eureka Street
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Growing a Culture of Peace - Columban Mission Institute - Centre for
Peace Ecology and Justice
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Israel's rogue behaviour - Michael Mullins -
Eureka Street
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The War We Can't
Win - Afghanistan & the Limits of American Power -
Commonweal
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Ben Salmon and the Army of Peace - John Dear SJ -
National Catholic Reporter
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Telstra profits at the expense of low income earners -
Australia Institute
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Abbott Advises Homeless People To Get A Home - Stephen Nash -
newmatilda
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Real
stories betray Abbott's homelessness untruth - John Falzon, CEO St
Vincent de Paul
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Global Ethics and Human Responsibilities -
Hans Küng
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Declaration Toward a Global Ethic
- Global Ethics
Foundation
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Taliban
friend's letter to the enemy - Eureka Street
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Obama and the works of death - John Dear SJ - National Catholic
Reporter
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Where to from here on climate change -
Centre for Policy Development
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Climate Change Refugees - Simon Meyer - Centre for Policy
Development
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What we failed to learn from the GFC - Ian McAuley - Centre for
Policy Development
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Reining it in: executive pay
in Australia -
The Australia Institute
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Haiti video -
It was hell then....Imagine the horror now -
National Catholic Reporter
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What a waste
- An
analysis of household expenditure on food -
The Australia Institute
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Living in the Midst of Affluence -
Catholic Voice
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March 2010 Briefing -
Australian Catholic
Social Justice Council
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What's new Feb 2010 -
Uniting Justice Australia
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Going to Church on Wall Street to Talk about Ethical Economics -
Sojourner
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In
Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand
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Pod Rights - Australian Human Rights Commission
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Make all drug use legal - Festival of Dangerous Ideas -
Radio National Counterpoint
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Refugee
hysteria breeding Pacific Solution 2.0 - Kerry Murphy - Eureka
street
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Hope for the Common Good - Uniting Justice
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When
tolerance doesn't cut it - Andrew Hamilton - Eureka Street
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Climate Change - Don't give up on your Government yet - Christine
Milne - newmatilda
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ACSJC
submission to Review of Tax System
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The Limits of Crisis Exploitation: The NT Intervention as a Reform
Boomerang - Murray Edelman
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Gallipoli Diggers and the 'forgotten' holocaust - Eureka Street
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The Monthly
- Australian Politics, Society and Culture - April 2009 Edition
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Australia Institute - For a Just,
Sustainable, Peaceful Future - Assorted topical papers/articles
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Global Crime Wave? A Syndrome of Crime, Violence, and Repression on the
Way (DRUGS) - By Michael T. Klare
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Mental Health and smoking - NSW Consumer Voice
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GM
patents exploit the poor Charles Rue - Eureka
Street
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Mundine calls for
rethink on intervention - CathNews
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Exploring the Underlying Social Determinants of Aboriginal Health -
Beyond Bandaids
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New Report shows Social Inclusion Antidote to Turbulent Times -
ANGLICARE Australia
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Towards an ethical
future - Economy in crisis # 3 - Mark Speeks (The Tablet)
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"Dignity
in Humanity - Recognizing Christ in Every Person." A Uniting
Church in Australia Statement on Human Rights
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View the story of the
Yolngu people of Ramingining in
the northern part of Central Arnhem Land.
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