Presented by Kevin O’Connor Professorial Fellow Urban Planning University of Melbourne. Wednesday 24 October 7pm. The Study Centre, Yarra Theological Union, Box Hill (best entry via 34 Bedford Street). Light refreshments afterwards. How do we really relate to the City of Melbourne? Kevin O’Connor argues that there are in fact five distinct Mebournes – the [...]
By Kevin Peoples. Melbourne John Garrattt Publishing 2012. Bruce Duncan at Albert Park 29 April 2012. Kevin Peoples has written a truly remarkable book, shedding light on one of the most perplexing periods in our nation’s short history and on its religious and social movements. Kevin writes that in his youth he was “prone to [...]
Not only is prolonged detention of asylum seekers morally objectionable, it is causing long-term damage to the mental health of people seeking protection in Australia from persecution and danger. In an innovative study, Dr Tony Ward looks at the likely damage done to the mental health of people who have made successful claims for asylum, [...]
With no hint of regret or apology, former Prime Minister John Howard has defended his decision to join the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In John Howard: Lazarus Rising (2010), Howard argues that the US Administration believed Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction that he could supply to terrorists. In other words, the decision was [...]
Professor John Warhurst spoke to SPC on 4 August 2010 about religion and politics in Australian federal elections, including church lobbying, relations with parties and governments, and the role of the faith of political leaders. John Warhurst was born in Adelaide and studied politics and economics at Flinders University in South Australia. He has taught political science in [...]
As Australia’s prosperity becomes more closely tied into China with values so different from ours, the question of our responsibilities and opportunities looms large. Do we think enough about what we have got ourselves into? Social Policy Connections featured Dr Thomas Bartlett and Dr Paul Rule discussing implications of Australia’s close economic ties with China [...]
by Bruce Duncan, OnlineCatholics, Issue 78, 16 November 2005. Recent comments by Prime Minister Howard that there was no Christian or Catholic view on industrial relations have raised many hackles, for the churches have a long and robust history of involvement in industrial debates, articulating the values and moral principles involved. They see the defence [...]
by Bruce Duncan CSsR Source: The Australasian Catholic Record (January 2004), pp. 17 – 31. Republished with permission. This paper considers how the Catholic Church internationally and in Australia has tried to grapple with the issues of employment and unemployment since Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical, On the Condition of the Working Class (Rerum Novarum), [...]
Dr Paul Rule here considers the interaction between culture, ethnicity and religion, with special reference to Chinese and Aboriginal people in the Australian community. He delivered his paper at the Gambler’s Help Multicultural Conference, ‘United in Diversity’, 18 May 2001, Holmesglen Conference Centre, Chadstone VIC. Click HERE to read the paper. Photo by: maorix – [...]
by Bruce Duncan, Eureka Street (November 1992), 32-33, 35. In the middle of one of Australia’s most severe economic recessions in 60 years, the Catholic bishops, in their long-awaited 1992 statement on the distribution of wealth denounced the situation as unjust. They pointed to ‘the great and increasing inequality of wealth and income in Australia, [...]
