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    Victorian State Election 2022: Place-based approaches and systemic change needed to address entrenched disadvantage in Victoria

    • 22 November 2022

    Jesuit Social Services’ recently released Victorian State Election platform, A state of opportunity, builds on 45 years of advocacy and action, to outline our vision for a just society across a range of interconnected social policy areas, from a fairer justice system, to support for people experiencing multiple and complex needs such as mental illness, trauma…

  • Climate justice in Darebin: Lived experiences of heatwaves and other extreme weather

    • 12 September 2022

    Extreme weather, such as heat, storms and bushfire smoke, affects us all, but we know it affects some people in our community more than others.

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    Healing the web of relationships that sustains us

    • 24 August 2022

    We all rely on healthy land, water, and air, not only for our survival but our ability to live fulfilling lives. Many of us find joy and replenishment in spending time in Australia’s natural spaces: our bush and desert, grasslands, rainforests, beaches, coral reefs, and even our local parks.

  • Naidoc Week 2022

    • 3 July 2022

    ANDY HAMILTON SJ charts the history and significance of NAIDOC Week, from its origins in protest to its call this year to Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up! to help build a better Australia.

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    Net zero has transformative potential for disadvantaged Victorians

    • 24 June 2022

    Jesuit Social Services recently made a submission to the independent panel tasked with making recommendations to the Government. In it, we argued for a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions alongside a range of measures to achieve a just transition.

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    Federal Election 2022: Government must support organisations and communities to build climate resilience

    • 28 April 2022

    Jesuit Social Services’ recently released Federal Election platform, A blueprint for a just recovery, builds on 45 years of advocacy and action, to outline our vision for a just society. In this second in a series of pre-Election blogs, we focus on social and ecological justice.

  • Time for a just transition plan to reach net zero

    • 6 April 2022

    To keep warming at around 1.5 degrees and avoid catastrophic and irreversible effects on people and planet, Australia should do its fair share: immediately reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reach a reduction of 75% of 2005 levels by the end of this decade, and hit net zero by 2035, according to the Australian Climate Council.

  • A world where prisons are a last resort

    • 17 March 2022

    Jesuit Social Services recently released the ‘Prisons, climate and a just transition’ discussion paper, which argues that in a world of worsening climate change, Australia’s reliance on imprisonment is increasingly untenable. John Ryks, Policy and Research Manager who works with Jesuit Social Services’ Centre for Just Places, spoke to us about the thinking behind the…

  • The call for climate adaptation must leave no one behind

    • 2 March 2022

    The report makes clear that failing to mitigate and adapt to climate change will cost lives. Jesuit Social Services recognises that already disadvantaged and marginalised people are some of the first and worst affected by climate change.

  • Transition to zero emissions future must include a focus on decarceration

    • 19 January 2022

    Jesuit Social Services has launched a discussion paper arguing that in a world of worsening climate change, Australia’s reliance on incarceration is increasingly untenable. As a grassfire raged dangerously close to Central NSW’s Lithgow Correctional Centre in late 2019, local residents were evacuated and highways closed, but 400 Lithgow prisoners – around a quarter Aboriginal…

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