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March 2009
What do the bushfires mean for Victoria?
How will we respond to climate change?
Plus SPC events on Taxation; and Global Warming
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April 2009
Editorial by Peter Whiting: Responding to troubled times
Bill Frilay's report on Canberra consultation on Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Developments at SPC - forthcoming launch of Yarra Institute
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February 2009
Lessons from the Firestorm
Bushfires shock Victoria with huge death toll and wide destruction, but carry a more ominous warning about climate change.
* Obama's efforts to reform US capitalism
* Rudd, Abbot and the churches on 'neo-liberalism' and economic philosophy
* Professor Brian Howe to launch Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy in April
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December 2008 - January 2009
'One
fears that we have squandered the years of plenty when the world could
have made massive inroads into the eradication of global hunger and
poverty at a comparatively modest cost.'
* The shock waves from the US financial collapse are still sending tsunamis through the global economy
* Memorandum of Understanding between Yarra Theological Union and the Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy signed
* SPC understands its brief as covering the broader range of questions about values in society and their policy implications
* Christmas message
* Past achievements and future priorities
* Special thanks to Emmy Silvius
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November 2008
* The financial crisis has forced us back to fundamentals in search of a new economics with a richer view of the good for all
* Yarra Institute formally endorsed by YTU
* AGM and changes to SPC Board
* 80 people attend Dr Hilary Martin’s talk on federal intervention in NT
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October 2008
* Consequences of financial crisis for MDG campaign to overcome hunger
* Mr Rudd at the UN
* Need for fresh vision
* Close of PolMin
* SPC forum to hear head of Micah Challenge International
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September 2008
* Turmoil in world economy threatens Millennium Development Goals - Australia must do more.
* Successful move to Box Hill
* Progress with Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy
* Website developments
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August 2008
This edition includes:
* Comments on responses to climate change
* The move from Richmond to Box Hill for SPC and Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy
* Developments and additions to our website including an invitation to submissions from our members
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July 2008
Speaking at the conclusion of the “7th International Conference on Globalisation of the Common Good – an inter-faith perspective” in Melbourne in early July, Dr Camilleri said that the human future depended on how well we dispel fears and stereotypes to develop wider circles of friendship and understanding among peoples.
Our hopes for SPC and its research offshoot, the Yarra Institute for Religion and Social Policy, centre on four major areas:
1. Spreading the conversation about a new global ethic
2. Redeveloping economic thinking
3. Strengthening public opinion
4. Widening the constituency of people concerned about war, nuclear weapons and conflict resolution.
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