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Building a just society means elevating everyone by supporting all people to reach their full potential. Every success story is crucial because none of us can flourish, until we all do.

Remote communities: not a lifestyle choice
- 10 March 2015
Indigenous rights group SOS Blak Australia has declared today a day for action to stop the closure of remote communities. Visit the SOS Blak Australia Facebook page here Jesuit Social Services supports this call and rejects Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s recent categorisation of life in remote communities as a “lifestyle choice”. Such a comment ignores…
End detention of children
- 19 February 2015
Jesuit Social Services together with over 230 organisations and community groups across Australia signed a joint statement calling for action to end the detention of children, once and for all. The statement urged the Australian Parliament to introduce legislation to prevent children from being held in closed immigration detention in the future and to take…
The Atitjere Church Opening
- 10 December 2014
Jesuit Social Services was proud to recently organise the opening and blessing of the Atitjere Church in the Sandover region of the Northern Territory. Our involvement in the project stems back to 2012, when our Central Australian team was invited to visit the Atitjere community, 215 kilometres from Alice Springs at the foot of Mount…

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