Sunday 10 December 2017 7:30pm. Melbourne Town Hall 90-130 Swanston Street Melbourne On December 10, ICAN will be awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Join ICAN in Melbourne, where the campaign began, to stigmatise, prohibit, and eliminate nuclear weapons. The evening will involve short speeches by ban champions, an art auction, live […]
Public forum. Can Australia’s leaders be prosecuted for treatment of refugees & asylum seekers? Thursday 7 December 6-8pm RMIT University City Campus 445 Swanston Street Melbourne Building 80 Level 2 Lecture Theatre Moderator Corinne Grant Lawyer and media personality Panel members will talk about their submissions to the ICC on how this […]
Invitation : book launch. Two books edited by Anne Elvey, Deborah Guess, & Keith Dyer Thursday 7 December 5:30pm Whitley College Library 271 Royal Parade Parkville Melbourne. Dr Deborah Storie will launch Ecological Aspects of War: Engagements with Biblical Texts (Bloomsbury, T&T Clark). Dr Bruce Duncan will launch Ecological Aspects of War: Religious & Theological Perspectives […]
Professor Paul Smyth. Tuesday 5 December 7:30-9pm Following SPC’s AGM at 7pm New Directions for social policy after the collapse of the neoliberal framework Yarra Theological Union Study Centre 34 Bedford Street Box Hill Entry free. Donations welcome. Refreshments afterwards. Paul Smyth is Honorary Professor of Social Policy in the School of Social & Political […]
Professor Joseph Camilleri on Korea crisis. Sunday 19 November 2pm Kildara Centre Rear 39 Stanhope Street Malvern (through car park) Pax Christi members and friends welcome everyone concerned about our human future. 12:45pm Lunch, followed by reflection from different faiths 3:30pm Discussion on Pax Christi priorities 4.30pm Brief business meeting, and election of new Pax […]
Rerum Novarum Oration 2017 Wednesday 8 November 7:30pm Cardinal Knox Centre 383 Albert Street East Melbourne Light refreshments served from 7pm All welcome. Free event. Justice H B Higgins established a living wage for unskilled male workers, enough to support a wife and three children in ‘frugal comfort’. This became the basis of the Australian […]
Australia faces a T-intersection: time to resolve our refugee crisis. Bruce Duncan Liberal member for McMillan in Gippsland, Russell Broadbent, challenged his own political party sharply, as well as Australia’s detention policies for refugees on Manus Island and Nauru, saying that Australians were finding it quite ‘unacceptable’ that we treat refugees so badly, keeping them […]
Wednesday 11 October, 5.30 registration, 6.00-8.30pm An Evening for Parishes: how they can help and support refugees and asylum seekers in our communities with speakers Peter Hudson, Denis Fitzgerald, Sr Brigid Arthur csb, Isaiah (a former asylum seeker, Jesuit Speakers’ Program), and panellists Maree Metcalfe or Barbara Horrigan (St Joseph’s Parish, Malvern), Carmel […]
Reviewed by Tony French If, like me, you want to put the current ‘refugee crisis’ into some kind of historical perspective, then I recommend Tony Ward’s recent publication, Bridging Troubled Waters: Australia & Asylum Seekers. This is a well-researched and readable review of Australia’s response to refugees arriving here by boat since the 1990s. This […]
Tuesday 28 November, 9.30am to 4pm at St Joseph’s by the Sea, 16 Esplanade, Williamstown. Catholic Social Services Victoria, together with Edmund Rice Ministries and Presentation Sisters will host a Catholic Social Teaching: Train the Trainer day on ‘Catholic Social Teaching: A lived, reflective experience of the guiding principles’, especially for those responsible for […]
