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email us of any errors you have
found, as well as corrections and suggestion. Thank you.
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 recordings from the forum ""What ought we do about
climate change? Australian interests through the ethical looking glass"
with speakers Paul Collins and Vanessa Morris
are now available from our
download page
Calendar of Future events:
No forums are planned to be held until 2010 (more
details)
Non CES Events. (More
details)
1. Anti-Poverty Week -
Help Fight Poverty and Hardship
When:
11-17 October
The week focuses
on poverty around the world. For more information Phone 1300 797 290 or
visit the antipoverty website.
Become involved?
World Vision, in
partnership with the ACT Anti Poverty Week team has produced a series of 4
small group discussion studies for use in local churches. These are
available for download. Subjects include:
For further
information please contact Rev Gordon Ramsay, Co-Chair ACT Anti Poverty
Week team, gordon@kippax.org.au
2.
Mercy Justice Conference
(An
initiative of the Institute of Sisters of Mercy Australia)
When:
6th,
7th & 8th November 2009.
Where: Queanbeyan
NSW (Commence
6.30pm Friday, conclude 4pm Sunday)
Speakers:
Mick Dodson, Tim Flannery, Margot
O’Neill, Jan Gray rsm, Maryanne Loughry rsm, Madge McGuire, Denise Coghlan
rsm,
3. Freilich
Foundation (supported events)
Exhibition: Resilience -
Images From a New Delhi Children's Shelter, by David MacDougall
When: August 28- November
27
Where: National Sound and Film
Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT
Film: The
images from this exhibition are from the film "Gandhi's Children" by David
MacDougall
When: Screening August
30th 2pm
Where:
Arc Cinema, National Sound and Film Archive, McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT
Further information
4. Frelich
Foundation Presents Eminent Lecturer Series, November 2009: Women and War
Professor Hilary Charlesworth and other eminent scholars will deliver a
series of lectures every Wednesday lunchtime during the month of November
on the theme of Women and War. This lecture series will consider women's
complex relationship to war and conflict. It will investigate the images
of womanhood that are used in decisions about the use of force as well as
the effect of conflict on women
Items of potential interest
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Obama's
'Not Bush' Nobel not good -
Michael Brull - Eureka Street
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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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Strategies for a new era of firestorms - Paul Collins - Eureka
Street
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GetUp! - save the homelands - petition of the
Yolngu people of the NT
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September
2009 Briefing - Australian Social Justice Council
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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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CSJC
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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Rallies and arrests in West Papua
coincide with establishment of 'International lawyer for West Papua'
- Institute for Papuan Advocacy & Human Rights
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Conservation Council for the Canberra Region - eBulletin
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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)
The tale
of the wealthy bludger - Anne Schmid Eureka Street
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Minorities stomped as India flirts with fascism
Irfan
Yusuf - Eureka Street
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Social
Justice Sunday - Faces of Poverty (National Council of Churches)
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Social Justice Sunday Statement 2008 - "A Rich Young Nation - The
challenge of affluence and poverty in Australia" (ACSJC)
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"The
wage of sin is the death of the Market" - Clive Hamilton Eureka
Street
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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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Kids or
Criminals - Liz Curran
Eureka Street
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The Australian Catholic
Social Justice Council
April 09 Briefing paper
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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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