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Caritas Australia is the agency for overseas aid and development of the Catholic Church in Australia. Caritas Australia provides support for emergency relief and long term development projects in over thirty countries worldwide. Caritas Australia's major fundraising appeal each year is Project Compassion.

Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education
www.erc.org.au

The Edmund Rice Centre works in education, advocacy and social action to promote social change and a more equitable society, locally and internationally. The Centre offers individuals and groups experiential learning opportunities, and assists in the development of skills and strategies for effective social action.

Deported to Danger A Study of Australia's Treatment of 40 Rejected Asylum Seekers A project of the Edmund Rice Centre for Justice and Community Education in cooperation with the Dominican Sisters and School of Education, Australian Catholic University.

St. Columbans Mission Society
http://www.columban.org.au/index.htm

Australian Political Ministry network (PolMin)

http://www.polmin.com.au

The Australian Political Ministry Network Ltd is a national membership organisation committed to bringing about systemic change in Australian society through the influencing of public policy for the common good in accordance with the principles
of Catholic Social Teaching

Social Action Office: Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, Queensland

http://sao.clriq.org.au/

The Social Action Office (SAO) was founded in October 1992 by the Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, Queensland (CLRIQ) to undertake and cultivate social action ministry. The SAO is based in Brisbane but it serves a statewide network of Catholic Religious Congregations in Queensland. It also works closely with Religious Congregations across Australia and with a growing number of partners, both individual and organisational.

Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, NSW

http://www.clrinsw.org

Fosters research and publications on a variety of topics concerned with religious life, education and social justice.

A Just Australia

http://www.ajustaustralia.com/home.php

Propose twelve fundamental principles for good policy and practice towards asylum seekers.

Life Quest

http://www.lifequestoz.net

LifeQuest offers individuals and groups opportunities and processes to explore, to become involved in and to listen and dialogue about: feminist theology, scripture, social justice, mission of the church and spirituality for life.

Australian Catholic Social Justice Council

http://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/index.shtml

The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC) was set up by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) in 1987 as the national justice and peace agency of the Catholic Church in Australia.

Latest Catholic Social Justice Papers to be accessed here are:

No. 54	Trade Justice Sr Suzette Clark and Dr Patricia Ranald
No. 53	Ending Hunger: How Far Can We Go? Millennium Development Goals by 2015 Fr Bruce Duncan CSsR
No. 52	The Beatitudes and Justice Fr Gerard Moore SM
No. 51	The Timor Sea’s Oil and Gas: What’s Fair? Fr Frank Brennan SJ

Children Out of Detention

http://www.chilout.org/

Chilout is a group of parents and citizens opposed to the mandatory detention of children in Australian immigration detention centres. We are appalled that Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers breaches several human rights treaties to which we are a signatory, in particular the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Catholic Earthcare Australia

http://www.catholicearthcareoz.net/

Catholic Earthcare Australia is an ecological agency established by the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference and chaired by Bishop Christopher Toohey.

Its mission is to help promote understanding among people that creation is sacred and endangered, and that the natural world needs protection and preservation for present and future generations yet unborn.