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...
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...
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...
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...
We need to tell it as it really is!
Editorial. Peter Whiting. 30 March 2021. During the waning years of the Trump presidency, it became fashionable to reference the inordinate number of misleading...
Pope Francis apologises for the war against Iraq, but will Australia?
Bruce Duncan. 30 March 2021. During his recent visit to Iraq, Pope Francis revived hopes for deep reconciliation and renewed collaboration among the ancient...
The Church & repairing democracy after Trump.
Bruce Duncan. 8 February 2021. The assault on the US Capitol building by Trump supporters trying to overturn the election not only shocked the...
Bruce Duncan. Pope Francis: take climate change & unfair economic systems seriously.
Pope Francis has repeatedly challenged us to ‘make some noise’ about the serious issues of climate change, as well as about poverty and extreme...
Bruce Duncan. Covid-19 has stripped us of our illusions about equity and fair play.
Few of us could have imagined that a virus invisible to the human eye could bring the world economy to its knees. Wealthy countries...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Australia’s mixed record on human rights.
3 July 2020 Photo Black Lives Matter Rally Melbourne 6 June 2020. Matt Hrkac. flickr cc. Polls conducted over recent months indicate that voters...
Editorial Peter Whiting. Sustainable Development Goals point to how to address post-Covid reforms.
Photo 70th Anniversary of UN, display of SDGs. UN photo/Cia Pak 2015. flickr cc. 4 June 2020 With the easing of Covid-19 restrictions coming...