One area of follow-through for the Board is fundraising. Any suggestions about possible donors, trusts, foundations would be much appreciated

Workshop results from 3 questions:
1. On what issues is your passion for social justice issues focused?

User-pays ignores the reality of inequality for users with financial implications as well as implications for the dignity of users.
Use of women’s and men’s bodies in marketing – an issue for human dignity
Education process (primary, secondary, tertiary, post secondary) is a sausage machine which ignores differentials in students and fails to support teachers adequately
Passionate about helping young people through education to grow up confident, competent and contributing to society
Need to help refugees, indigenous, homeless single women and addiction affected
Uninformed judgements against people of different culture, religion, ……
Bring values of Christian social tradition into engagement with modern social issues – e.g. how to turn back the tide of secularism and see society embrace values inherent in Christian social tradition
A justice issue: how justified/justifiable are the huge amount of money for world youth day against other needs
Participatory democracy – particularly with respect to the intervention in the N.T.
Peace at every level
The plight of indigenous in Australia
Equality of gender and race
Integrity in government
Be more without having more
Have Australia take a moral position and lead internationally
Plight of asylum seekers and refugees:
questionable inhumane policies
review and rewrite immigration act
questionable morality of accepting applications without providing reasonable living and health conditions
Social inequality in education for indigenous people:
5-15 yrs, obligatory education with same opportunities as for most of us
adult education and education of disadvantaged indigenous people
money for indigenous media (radio, TV, internet)
advocating a social service system as committed to self worth as to food and shelter (attitude change)
look at Swedish system as a role model for attitude of mind
Socialisation of medical care (health) system:
people are not forced to live with pain / chronic illness
free and available medical care
invalid pension – difficulties in qualifying
aged health care needs a stronger voice
tax cuts to stop advocacy for public funds to be used four infrastructure, utilities and public goods

2. In your view what do Australians regard as the social justice issues for Australia?

Debt burden of young people; HECS; Credit; living expenses
Associated issues:
housing debt
identity – consumers
run down in public infrastructure (schools, transport, etc.)
impact on relationships
should not be a source of debt

Fair go at work:
outworkers in clothing
insecurity in employment, especially for young people
breakdown in social contract.

Refugees:
contravening international law / detention / terrorism legislation

Aged population:
mistreatment; inadequate government support for high care residents

Indigenous problem:
disenfranchisement of natural leaders
need to allow indigenous Australians to influence the solutions
Trust and security is a ‘community ideal’. People don’t feel ‘safe’ anymore. We need to increase people’s connectedness and we need a framework/leadership;

Energy and water security;

Decent housing for all;

Overcome divides on gender and work background;

Create respect for fragile Australian land, flora and fauna;

Education – access, funding and values;

Christian values and social policy;

3. In your view what do Australians regard as the social justice issues internationally?

Need for Australia to move from other cultures and ‘powerful friends’
Need for moral leadership
Millennium Development Goals
Fear of the other
Need to understand and respond to movement of people
Ethical exports and fair trade
Justice issues around the food chain and water – ‘ownership’ and ‘access’
Consumerism and the run-down of natural resources, fair trade issues, climate impact
How to create a real sense of the common good in international trade and in response to climate change/pollution
War – indifference to the poor in Dafur and how to control the arms industry
In the WTO, IMF and World Bank, who has the power and where is the democratic voice on issues such as trade, debt and development
The mentality of  ‘whoever pays the piper calls the tune’
Corruption checks and balances
Greater focus on current ‘brain drain’ from underdeveloped countries and unprotected, unskilled ‘illegals’ to developed nations
Human trafficking; advocating for visas for trafficked individuals
Insularity of the nations versus family of nations.

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