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    The Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola

    • 25 July 2024

    Ahead of the Feast Day of St. Ignatius Loyola (July 31), ANDY HAMILTON SJ writes that the image of St Ignatius with one foot raised sums up the challenge and his way to meet it. The raised foot is always discerning, always ready to go where needed. The grounded foot is firmly planted in friendship…

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    NAIDOC Week 2024

    • 4 July 2024

    This NAIDOC Week (July 7-14), is a time for non-Indigenous Australians to honour the culture of our First Peoples and the tenacity with which they have insisted on their culture and their rights, reflects Andy Hamilton SJ.

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    Refugee Week 2024

    • 14 June 2024

    When we enter the life of refugees from within and see their extraordinary stories of suffering, resilience, and love of family, we have a lens through which to judge the rejection of them by wealthy nations like our own, reflects Andy Hamilton SJ.

  • Advocacy in Willmot

    • 12 June 2024

    For many people, it is already hard enough to juggle work responsibilities, childcare and life’s numerous engagements. But lacking access to adequate public transportation tips the scales. For this reason, members of the Willmot Community Hub organised a ‘Transport Forum’ to advocate for improved bus routes, more school buses, an expansion of the Community Transport…

  • Young people are worth a second chance.

    • 10 June 2024

    The age of criminal responsibility has been much debated recently. Victoria has committed to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 this year, and to 14 in 2027. The Northern Territory has raised it to 12, and the ACT is in the process of doing so. Other states are planning, considering, or…

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    World Environment Day 2024

    • 5 June 2024

    "And yet there are grounds for hope, if not for optimism." Read Andy Hamilton SJ's reflection on World Environment Day 2024.

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    Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week

    • 25 May 2024

    Sorry Day and National Reconciliation Week must be a time of sober commitment by all Australians to the unfinished task of Reconciliation, reflects Andy Hamilton SJ.

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    Laudato Si' Week 2024

    • 16 May 2024

    Ahead of Laudato Si' Week which begins on May 19th, the spirit of Pope Francis's encyclical urges us to heed the call for care for our common home.

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    Easter Sunday 2024

    • 31 March 2024

    Easter Sunday and concurrent feast celebrations in other religions embody hope in hard places, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ, to mark this year's Easter Sunday celebration.

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    Climate emergency and prisons don’t mix

    • 22 March 2024

    On a 38-degree December day in the middle of the desert, 15 people incarcerated at Alice Springs Correctional Centre used t-shirts and pedestal fans to rip a hole in a ceiling, in a desperate attempt to escape the stifling heat of their overcrowded cells. The incident reignited calls to air-condition the prison – one recommendation…

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