Priorities in election year Editorial by Peter Whiting Victorians will go to the polls twice this year. The Federal election is due later this year at a date yet to be set. The State elections will be conducted on 27 November. Already the signs are becoming apparent: the media are giving greater attention to the [...]
Presentation by Mr Bill Frilay on behalf of Social Policy Connections at the ‘New Clear Exchange’ Workshop, Melbourne, 15 February 2010 Starting from first principles there are of course the teachings of Christ. Christ espoused love and peace throughout his mission. This, the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes, parables such as the Good [...]
by Bruce Duncan in Online Catholics (10 May 2006). With permission. Bruce Duncan, a priest of the Redemptorist order, coordinates the program of social justice studies at Yarra Theological Union in Melbourne and is the Director of the Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy. This is his address at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral, Melbourne, [...]
by Bruce Duncan, in Online Catholics: an independent Australian ejournal (17 May 2006). With permission. On the night of 25-26 April, 1986, one of the four nuclear reactors at Chernobyl in the north of Ukraine exploded. According to a conservative estimate, it released a hundred times more radiation than the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and [...]
Published by Catholic Social Services Victoria in 2007. Reproduced with permission. Households use a third of total energy consumption, with the average household responsible for almost 11 tonnes of CO2 annually. We are currently using too much energy wastefully, and our consumption mentality needs to give way to one of sustainability. We can all become [...]
