SPC News June 2021.
The dream of SPC is one for every generation. Peter Whiting Editorial. The decision (communicated in our May SPC News) to put SPC into...
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...
SPC book sale
Special 30% reduction on quoted prices. Free postage. Stock limited. Young People, Faith, & Social Justice (Yarra Institute, 2013). Joan Daw. $20. Social Justice...
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...
SPC News May 2021.
SPC News is going into hibernation. Peter Whiting. We remain convinced that there is a need for strong voices addressing social justice issues from...
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...
A Song Worth Singing: Our Melbourne Days, by Anne Doyle.
Bruce Duncan. 4 May 2021. I am very pleased to commend a new book by Anne Doyle, A Song Worth Singing: Our Melbourne Days....
SPC News is going into hibernation.
Peter Whiting Editorial. The months of lockdown due to the pandemic have seemingly ended in Australia, although their effects linger on for many. Friends...
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...