Our mission: your social justice concerns.
We invite your feedback & views. Peter Whiting. When you click on the Mission tab of our webpage, you will see our mission statement,...
Nowhere to lay their heads: homeless in Melbourne.
Jenny Begent. And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere...
Time for inspired leadership.
Peter Whiting. Millions of people have been mesmerised by Pope Francis speaking to the joint sitting of US Congress and the United Nations General...
Church calls for humane treatment of asylum seekers.
Michael Walter. Australia’s Catholic bishops call for an increase in our intake of refugees, immediate closure of offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru,...
Pope Francis calls for a global economy with a conscience.
Bruce Duncan. During his July trip to Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay, some of the poorest countries in Latin America, Pope Francis has voiced the...
Budget 2015: even more unfair.
Bruce Duncan. To save the Coalition ship from the electoral shoals, the government has moderated its hard-line neoliberal rhetoric, but has added to the...
Pope Francis & the Abbott government.
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis has repeatedly called for increased social and economic equity in the world, and reiterated the critique of neoliberal economics very...
How cuts to foreign aid will reduce health care in the region
Originally published in the Conversation. By Michael Toole. The federal government’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook announcement this week to cut the foreign aid...
Aiding whom?
Rik Sutherland Overseas aid plays a significant role in international relations, both by way of international mechanisms (including the United Nations) and by direct...
Foreign aid a budget casualty
Bill Frilay Read this article in full. The Coalition Government has made, or is making, major changes to our foreign aid policy. The changes...
“Pure Marxism” or “pure Gospel”? Pope Francis on the economy
By Bruce Duncan, C.Ss.R.* Pope Francis is arousing growing opposition from US conservatives for his criticism of failures in capitalist economics. “Pure Marxism” is...