Stay informed and take action - CCJP 2018
Information on CCJP's Sunday Seminar series - Upcoming Seminars and Transcripts/Summaries
Thank you Paul Power, CEO of Refugee Council of Australia for our seminar on 15 July 2018
Seminars are held at Catherine McAuley Room, Mercy Congregational Centre, 6 Victoria Road, Parramatta
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Latest News
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
Speak up at Voices for Justice 2018
Posted 03 08 2018
Micah Australia has announced Voices for Justice 2018 for 1-4 December in Canberra. Four days of advocacy training and lobbying for the world's poor. Register by 31 August for the Early Bird rate. ...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
Australians support renewables over coal
Posted 18 07 2018
The Pacific Calling Partnership is highlighting a 2018 Lowy Institute Poll that finds 84% of Australians believe that the government should focus on renewable energy over coal-fired plants, even if such measures were to cost more. ...more
Review of Australian broadcasting in the Pacific
Posted 18 07 2018
The Australian Government is undertaking a review of Australian media services in the Asia-Pacific region. Pacific Calling Partnership is asking that we send messages to the Review and call for a thorough upgrade of the ABC's broadcasting to the Pacific. ...more
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
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
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
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
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
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