Our thinking Archives - Jesuit Social Services

Federal Budget 2025 - Engaging men and boys to prevent violence against women and children
- 12 March 2025
Ahead of the 2025-26 Federal Budget, Jesuit Social Services has published its pre-Budget submission, highlighting opportunities for Government to target spending and policy-making, prioritising reach, strategies and programs that support children, young people and their families to live safe and healthy lives. In our second pre-Budget piece, we focus on the need for further investment…
World Day of Social Justice
- 19 February 2025
To mark World Day of Social Justice, ANDY HAMILTON SJ writes that Catholic Social Teaching informs the day-to-day work of Jesuit Social Services, in which we support people experiencing multiple and complex forms of disadvantage.
Anniversary of the National Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples
- 12 February 2025
The National Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples, which took place 17 years ago, enacted respect, concern for truth and the desire for reconciliation. In light of the harsh climate of discontent following the Voice to Parliament Referendum, it is both bracing and consoling to revisit the Apology, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ.
Federal Budget 2025 - Elevating the Rights and Wellbeing of Children as a Cabinet Priority
- 11 February 2025
Ahead of the 2025-26 Federal Budget, Jesuit Social Services has published its pre-Budget submission, highlighting opportunities for Government to target spending and policy-making, prioritising reach, strategies and programs that support children, young people and their families to live safe and healthy lives. In our first pre-Budget piece, we focus on need to appoint a Minister…
Australia Day 2025
- 23 January 2025
Not a date to celebrate. ANDY HAMILTON SJ contends that we must strive for a national day that celebrates and reaffirms all Australians' commitment to respecting human flourishing. In its present form, Australia Day is clearly not satisfactory as a celebration of...
A legacy of giving: Helen Delves’ journey with Jesuit Social Services
- 17 January 2025
Helen Delves has been supporting Jesuit Social Services since 1997, including becoming a Community Partner by signing up to a monthly gift in 2006. Our Fundraising Manager, Polly, recently spoke with Helen about what inspired her to give back to her community. What followed was a heartfelt conversation about faith, compassion, and a strong belief…
Christmas Day 2024
- 23 December 2024
Christmas inspires people of goodwill, regardless of their religious beliefs, to stand in solidarity with those most marginalised, to pause and envision the people we aspire to become, and to consider the kind of society we wish to create, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ.
Universal Human Rights Day
- 10 December 2024
Universal Human Rights Day highlights the shared dignity of humanity and the vision of a world where all can flourish in freedom and justice. ANDY HAMILTON SJ reflects that our flourishing as individuals depends on the flourishing of all—a truth that calls for unyielding vigilance against the shadows of neglect and oppression.
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- 2 December 2024
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we reflect that the reality for persons with disabilities is often one of inequality and of neglect by others. ANDY HAMILTON SJ writes that in all our personal and public relationships with persons with disabilities we must ensure that they can exercise agency in their lives. The naming…
Anti-Poverty Week 2024
- 16 October 2024
At Jesuit Social Services, we see the face of poverty in the facts of many of the vulnerable young people with whom we work. Through accompanying young people, we help them to find possibilities, reflects ANDY HAMILTON SJ. Anti-Poverty Week touches on the people and the causes that lie at the heart of Jesuit Social…