Social Policy Connections & the Yarra Institute for Religion & Social Policy: an historical sketch.
Compiled by Bruce Duncan. June 2021. Social Policy Connections emerged out of discussions in June 2002 at the convent of the Missionary Sisters of...
Learnings from SPC.
Bruce Duncan. 13 July 2021. Since Social Policy Connections’ humble beginnings nearly twenty years ago, hundreds of people have been involved in the journey...
Editorial Peter Whiting.
The dream of SPC is one for every generation. It is illuminating to look back over a nineteen-year span, and consider goals achieved and...
Why ‘On the Condition of the Working Classes’ is still important after 130 years.
Fr Bruce Duncan CSsR and Ms Megan Cavanagh discuss the impact and current importance of this landmark social encyclical of Pope Leo XIII in...
Talking us into a war with China?
Bruce Duncan. 4 May 2021 Recent political rhetoric about a possible war with China over Taiwan is deeply disturbing. Have we in Australia learned...
Wonder & enchantment: ‘seeing’ beyond the mundane
Len Puglisi. 4 May 2021 Over a number of years, I’ve come across various writers who have reported events they define as uplifting moments...
What have our governments done to tackle rates of Indigenous custody?
Jack Waterford. 4 May 2021. From one perspective, one could see the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd as a...
Vital signs: to fix Australia’s housing affordability crisis, negative gearing must go.
Richard Holden UNSW. House prices are back in the news, and out of control. In the past three months the median house price in...
Seriously ugly – that’s how Australia will look if the world heats by 3°C this century.
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg The University of Queensland.Lesley Hughes Macquarie University. Imagine, for a moment, a different kind of Australia. One where bushfires on the catastrophic...
More reasons for optimism on climate change than we’ve seen for decades: two climate experts explain.
Gabi Mocatta University of TasmaniaRebecca Harris University of Tasmania It’s unusual for researchers who study our catastrophically changing climate to use the words “optimism”...
The blood-for-oil Iraq war demands a robust public inquiry.
Bevan Ramsden. 30 March 2021. 20 March 2021 marks 18 years since Australia made the decision to join the United States in the disastrous...