This is a summary of a fuller report by Bill Frilay. Please click HERE to read the full report. More than 65 people attended the SPC conference on The Churches and Public Policy in Abbotsford on 19 July 2011 to hear Mr Robert Fitzgerald’s address on the role of the churches in public policy. Robert was [...]
Decisions needed on climate change Editorial by Bill Frilay Australia is facing key decisions about how to tackle climate change. This is a very difficult issue. Ross Garnaut called it “a diabolical policy problem” in its complexity. Yes, difficult, but very important. Why should SPC take up an interest in climate change? Is not this [...]
This National Directory of Refugee and Asylum Seeker Support Services of the Australian Churches was written by Dr Kirsty Sangster for the Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy, with the aid of a grant from the Melbourne College of Divinity. The project was supervised by Dr Rowan Ireland and Dr Bruce Duncan, and the [...]
Globally and regionally, the climate is warming. While there have been warmings and coolings over the long history of the earth, a large majority of climate scientists believe (a) this current warming has major implications for the planet, (b) that much of the warming is due to anthropogenic (human-related activity) sources, and (c) that the [...]
Despite concerns about nuclear weapons over the past 60 years, there are now nine or ten nations possessing around 27,000 nuclear weapons.3 The world has been fortunate that these weapons have not been deployed so far. However, this good fortune cannot be expected to continue indefinitely. Nuclear arsenals are still justified on the basis of [...]
by Audra Kunciunas If you thought that slavery in the British colonies ended with Wilberforce in the 19th century, read on. Slavery still exists today and is now referred to as human trafficking. From the 16th to the 19th centuries, about 12 million Africans were shipped as slaves to the Americas. Today, some 27 million [...]
