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From the ABC – The World Today: “Palestinians link foreign aid to occupation”.

(Hear) Anne Barker reports for the ABC, October 04, 2011.

PETER CAVE: The US congress has blocked about $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority as apparent punishment for its applying for statehood through the United Nations.

The Authority relies on hundreds of millions of dollars a year in aid from foreign donors.

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Sydney Alliance,Broken Bay Diocesan representatives attend founding of the Sydney Alliance

On the evening of Thursday 15th September, 2011, a number of representatives of the Diocese of Broken Bay attended the founding event of the Sydney Alliance at Sydney Town Hall. Clare Glendenning and Margy Dale were official volunteers for the night.

(Click photos to enlarge).

Rear: Shirley Storrier, Trish Wilson, Joan Pavitt, Sr Meg […]

“Life in Occupied Palestine” DVD at Corpus Christi, St Ives.

Life in Occupied Palestine DVD & BBQ Sunday 11 September at 7pm Church hall, 263 Mona vale Rd St Ives Organised by the Corpus Christi St Ives Social Justice group For further information, contact Luke on 0424 188 139

Anna Baltzer

Anna talks about her time working with the International Women’s […]

Why Refugees from Iran? & 10 Essential Facts About Asylum Seekers

On the evening of 23rd August, 2011 at Fr Patrick McMaugh Hall, Asquith, listeners heard from three speakers: Phil Glendenning, and two Iranian refugees.

Phil debunked some of the false notions associated with refugees and asylum seekers as they make their way to Australia.

Mohammad (an Iranian refugee now safe in Australia […]

Mentors needed in Redfern

Are you free every week or two for an hour or so, to drop in and share a cup of tea with people who are currently homeless or disadvantaged once a fortnight or so, to listen to their busy lives, to share stories and friendship. If you are interested, please email jenny.carter(at)optusnet.com.au

Location: St. […]

Building Bridges, Not Walls: Prisons and the justice system – Suggested actions.

Sunday 21st August

The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council is now preparing for the release in September of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement. In their Statement, Building Bridges, Not Walls: Prisons and the justice system, the Bishops revisit an issue that the Christian churches together addressed over 20 years ago. It is […]

The Social Impacts of Climate Change – with Associate Professor James Goodman

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Associate Professor James Goodman, Social and Political Change Group, UTS to look at the facts about the social impacts of climate change: what is happening globally? where? why? What actions can we, as Australians, take, nationally and locally, to bring about climate […]

Human faces and stories of climate change – Kiribati a presentation from Maria Timon

On the 15th May, 2011 Maria Timon from the Edmund Rice Institute spoke to parishioners Corpus Christie St. Ives. She asked for assistance for her people. (Download the petition)

Maria Timon works as Pacific Outreach Project Officer for the Pacific Calling Partnership and comes from the island nation of Kiribati right on the equator […]

The Aboriginal Acknowledgement Plaque at Sacred Heart church, Pymble.

Aboriginal Acknowledgement Plaque unveiled on Sunday, May 29 after the 9.30 am Family Mass

In 2006 the Australian Catholic Bishops issued their Social Justice Sunday Statement The Heart of our Country – Dignity and Justice for our Indigenous sisters and brothers. In the Statement special reference was made to the 1986 address of Pope […]

First the Problem of the Intervention – Then the Constitution!!

On the evening of Friday 27th May, 2011 a dinner forum “The First Australians” was held at St Anthony in the Fields Catholic Church, part of the Catholic Parish of Frenchs Forest. The theme for the evening, a Guringai Festival event, was “First the Problem of the Intervention – Then the Constitution. Nicole Watson […]

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