Stay informed and take action - CCJP 2019
Information on CCJP's Sunday Seminar series - Upcoming Seminars and Transcripts/Summaries
SAVE THE DATE - Next Sunday Seminar (& AGM) is 17 February 2019
Seminars are held at Catherine McAuley Room, Mercy Congregational Centre, 6 Victoria Road, Parramatta
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Save the date - Sunday Seminar on 17 February 2019
Posted 13 12 2018
The presenter of the seminar at the AGM on Sunday 17 February 2019 will be Jennifer Newman. Jennifer is a Wiradjuri woman and doctoral student in ACU's Institute for Social Justice. Jennifer's research examines the discourse of constitutional recognition. ...more
Investigations reveal how we are being conned
Posted 13 12 2018
Jesuit Fr Michael Kelly urges us to "call out" the bipartisan piece of enduring deception over asylum seeker arrivals in Australia. Read about the 'con' in a series of articles in 'Pearls and Irritations'. ...more
Something important happened on treaty
Posted 06 12 2018
Mungo Maccallum writes that something very important happened in politics last week when the joint parliamentary committee on indigenous voice in parliament reported that the idea should be progressed. ...more
Adani now has finance to start - URGENT ACTION NEEDED
Posted 30 11 2018
Queensland is on fire. There is drought across most of the state as well as all of New South Wales. Children are going on strike to protest for urgent climate action. And Adani has declared that the coal mine is going ahead and starting before Christmas. ...more
Let's Go #BlueForNauru
Posted 19 11 2018
Tomorrow is Universal Children's Day. We need you to make a huge amount of noise. Today: Don't forget to remind all staff, customers, friends and followers to wear blue tomorrow in solidarity with children and their families still trapped on Nauru. ...more
Nationalism: the world's biggest threat
Posted 18 11 2018
Writes George Browning, former Anglican Bishop of Canberra-Goulburn: "We owe President Emmanuel Macron a debt of gratitude for his recent speech in Paris. 'Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.' ...more
Young people discuss climate change
Posted 04 11 2018
The CCJP seminar on Sunday 21 October featured students from Catherine McAuley Westmead, Domremy College and OLMC Parramatta speaking about their projects for environmental sustainability. The students were articulate, knowledgeable and passionate. ...more
Carmen Lawrence: Waste in current school funding
Posted 01 11 2018
In our panel discussions which reviewed school funding in Australia, the so-called 'Gonski review', the effects of the declining influence of state governments and the increasing exercise of power by the Commonwealth, was pivotal to deliberations. ...more
Earthkin presents seminar on Trees
Posted 24 10 2018
The Tree of Life is a mystical symbol found in every culture and religion. It reminds us of our common ancestry and of our interconnection with all life forms. Hear from a scientist and artist on Saturday 27 October, Parramatta. ...more
Long walk from Dubbo - new Fair Treatment campaign
Posted 14 10 2018
The Long Walk is the primary activity of the Fair Treatment drug law reform campaign before the NSW State election. The campaign highlights the need for to improve outcomes for individuals and their families in rural areas. ...more
Until Universal Children's Day 20 November, join 120,023 everyday Australians to get #KidsoffNauru
Posted 08 10 2018
Everyday Australians want to free the 95 children trapped on Nauru by Universal Children's Day 2018. Now Medecins Sans Frontieres has been ordered by the Nauru Government to leave, the situation for children suffering mental illness is more serious. ...more
Frank Brennan: Walking together for a better future
Posted 05 10 2018
Frank Brennan's keynote address to the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council Assembly: 'Strong Faith. Strong Youth. Strong Future - Walking Together in a movement of the Australian people for a better future' on 1 October 2018. ...more
Climate Warrior from Kiribati to speak in Melbourne and Sydney
Posted 22 09 2018
Former President of Kiribati, Anote Tong (pictured right), will be giving public talks in Melbourne and Sydney during October in order to highlight Australia's need to engage with Pacific Island neighbours on climate changes now. ...more
"Absolute disgrace" - Adani water concessions can be stopped by Queensland State Government
Posted 19 09 2018
Adani's proposed giant coal mine has cleared another hurdle with the federal government waiving the requirement for a full environmental assessment for a pipeline that will extract billions of litres of water from a river in drought-ravaged central Qld. ...more
Pearls and Irritations - on current affairs
Posted 07 09 2018
Read and reflect on 'the big issues' for Australia today - Ross Gittings on measuring Inequality; Kim Wingerei on the Legacy of the Lucky Generation; Derek Abbott opines on The Way we Live Now; and Stephen Long on cost of Coal vs Renewable Energy sources ...more
#Kids off Nauru - sign the petition
Posted 29 08 2018
The situation for children in detention on Nauru is bleak. Join the push to have all children and their families removed from Nauru to Australia by Universal Children's Day - 20 November 2018. ...more
Living the Change - online facility for commitments available
Posted 23 08 2018
No doubt you are reducing your carbon footprint, but some lifestyle changes may be new. Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) has this year's global faith-based initiative, 'Living the Change', online for commitments and community events ...more
Tear down Australia's racist wallpaper
Posted 17 08 2018
"But this is how racism works ... from material problems to imagined threats. It reframes complex problems for political capital and sometimes violent ends. That is the point when it stops being wallpaper but also the scaffold; not decoration but a cage." ...more
Australia will be stronger by saying yes to Uluru Statement
Posted 10 08 2018
Author Richard Flanagan's speech at the 20th Garma Festival: "The world is being undone before us. If we do not reimagine Australia, we will be undone too" ...more
Nuclear waste sites pose insoluble problems
Posted 03 08 2018
Catholic Religious Australia (CRA) is concerned that short term proposals for the storage of Australia's nuclear waste in SA will leave insoluble problems for present and future generations. ...more