Stay informed and take action - CCJP 2018
Information on CCJP's Sunday Seminar series - Upcoming Seminars and Transcripts/Summaries
Next Seminars will be on 15 July and 21 October 2018.
Seminars are held at Catherine McAuley Room, Mercy Congregational Centre, 6 Victoria Road, Parramatta
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Latest News
Alternative Solution #WithRefugees
Posted 04 06 2018
There's a workable alternative to Australia's asylum policy. The bad example set by Australia is damaging a global system already in crisis. But it's not too late to change tack, write James Hathaway and Daniel Ghezelbash. ...more
Surveillance in Australia: Who's watching the watchers?
Posted 04 06 2018
That the government is considering granting the Australian Signals Directorate powers to spy on Australian citizens, including emails, texts and bank records, on top of the extensive surveillance powers already held by ASIO and the AFP, is cause for alarm ...more
Sydney TPP-11 protest and latest trade news
Posted 04 06 2018
As the TPP-11 has been tabled in Australia parliament, AFTINET is in campaign mode. The deal is clearly not in the public interest. We are calling on opposition parties to block the deal. If you can, say no with AFTINET, in Sydney, on 15 June. ...more
Sign Petition to stand with Traditional Owners against Adani
Posted 04 06 2018
Read the latest message from the leaders of the Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners. They are the Traditional Owners of the land where mining giant Adani want to build the Carmichael coal mine. ...more
Free film screening - Cast from the Storm - 19 June
Posted 27 05 2018
What makes you extraordinary? The teenagers in the Australian award-winning documentary 'Cast from the Storm' may seem ordinary but they have extraordinary tales to tell. ...more
Going local - affordable and secure housing campaign
Posted 26 05 2018
Vinnies NSW and the Sydney Alliance partners are putting together local teams to motivate local councils and convince local MPs in the lead up to the NSW election to act on affordable and stable housing. ...more
Now only 4 cents a day - current ABC funding per capita
Posted 26 05 2018
Quentin Dempster, a former ABC journalist and contributing editor of The New Daily, writes that the ABC Board is preparing for a public campaign on its funding. ...more
Song from Kiribati calls world to address SDGs
Posted 26 05 2018
Pacific Calling Partnerships invites us to hear a song from Kiribati that was composed, sung and performed in Kiribati to tell the world we need to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ...more
Backing pharmacies over consumers, as usual
Posted 17 05 2018
Every five to 10 years in Australia, the government establishes a review of the regulations governing pharmacies that invariably come to the same conclusion: community pharmacy is over-regulated, and a reduction in regulation would benefit consumers. ...more
Make a submission in support of Uluru Statement
Posted 13 05 2018
11 June is the closing date for submissions to the Joint Parliamentary Committee to show support for Constitutional reform and the Uluru Statement from the Heart encourages Reconciliation Australia, in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islande ...more
Radical Sydney walking tours
Posted 12 05 2018
Spread the word! Join a two-hour tour of Radical Sydney's past - raising funds for organising Sydney's future! Secret stories of civil society organising all over the city: Carving our political space for women, the sparks of the Indigenous civil rights m ...more
Boats and Beyond: A frank talk on Cockatoo Island, 26 May
Posted 07 05 2018
Ai Weiwei's Law of the Journey, 2017, an imposing installation on Sydney's Cockatoo Island, features a 60-metre-long boat crowded with hundreds of anonymous refugee figures, provoking a frank discussion of Australia's and the global response to asylum see ...more
Funding cuts threaten safety of asylum seekers
Posted 04 05 2018
The latest Federal Government withdrawal of financial, case work and trauma counselling support to thousands of people who are living in our community threatens their safety. The House of Welcome asks us to open ourselves to the human stories and needs ...more
Rental affordability worsens for lowest income earners
Posted 01 05 2018
Our housing system is failing millions of Australians. Rents have been rising much faster than people's incomes. And we don't have enough secure, affordable rentals. We need action now to stop more people falling into hardship and crisis. ...more
Your next meal could help change lives
Posted 20 04 2018
Four Brave Women is a cafe initiative of The Trading Circle in Summer Hill that aims to give refugees experience over 8 weeks as cooks. The aim is for them to be able to operate and grow their own small business. ...more
Death of Australian children's TV programming
Posted 18 04 2018
Patricia Edgar, founding Director of Australian Children's Television Foundation, reflects on lessons that may be learned from the BBC reinvesting to serve its youngest audience and advocates for quick action on Australia's children's programming ...more
Australia is not listening in the Pacific
Posted 17 04 2018
In the Vanuatu Daily Post, Dan McGarry opines that "the average Australian's conception of Pacific island nations is so limited it makes some of us wonder if they even want to understand. Our voices and our reality are pointedly and repeated ignored" ...more
Pathways to justice pass through health - 6 ways to prevent harm of incarceration
Posted 13 04 2018
The major findings of the Australian Law Reform Commission's Pathways to Justice report on the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was tabled in Parliament last week and is awaiting a detailed response from government. ...more
New record lows for Australia's foreign aid
Posted 06 04 2018
Since the Coalition's 2014 decision to cut foreign aid funding by $1.4 billion per year, Australia's foreign aid record has not improved. A new report from The Australia Institute suggests that Australia's aid spending could be cut even further. ...more
It's the community's economy and we vote
Posted 16 03 2018
The Sydney Morning Herald's economics editor Ross Gittins reflects on the role of governments in setting boundaries within market economies - for entrepreneurs to be entrepreneurial - on behalf of the community's economy. ...more