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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.
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…
Palm Sunday 2024
- 20 March 2024
ANDY HAMILTON SJ reflects on Palm Sunday as a symbol of the intersection of stark political decisions and the human reality of those affected – calling for compassion and hope for people seeking asylum today.
16th anniversary of the Apology to Indigenous Australians
- 13 February 2024
Sixteen years on from Kevin Rudd's historic apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples, Andy Hamilton SJ argues words can't by unsaid, but can be disregarded – reminding us of the importance of respect and restoration.
Modelling Respect and Equality evaluation finds pilot program promotes change
- 25 January 2024
Participants in our healthy masculinity workshops in schools are gaining new knowledge, skills and adopting these into their everyday lives in and outside of the school, according to Deloitte Access Economics’ recent evaluation of our Modelling Respect and Equality schools pilot program. We know that in recent times the attitudes and behaviours of adolescent boys…
Australia Day 2024
- 2 January 2024
ANDY HAMILTON SJ reflects on a discordant Australia Day anniversary and articulates the need for truth and recognition. This year Australia Day follows closely after the recent defeat of the Referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. That defeat adds yet another discordant string to an already controversial history of the day and underlines the…
A Christmas reflection by Father Andy Hamilton SJ
- 24 December 2023
Christmas Day is a day of celebration. Of family, of children, of leisure, of freedom from work, of good food and drink. And yet in recent times, Christmas has also been a time of anxiety, of fear, of separation, of hardship. On one recent Christmas we lived with COVID and the isolation that accompanied it.…
A reflection on the times by Father Andy Hamilton SJ
- 11 December 2023
These have been hard days in a hard world, haven’t they? They favour hard people who wear masks and helmets, carry clubs, and lock their purses. We had hoped that the Referendum on the Indigenous Voice would be a celebration of peace and reconciliation, a gentling of the community. Instead, it was a bitter time…
Evidence shows flexible mental health and wellbeing supports essential
- 6 December 2023
Jesuit Social Services has a decades-long history of working with people to improve their mental health and wellbeing so they can then build healthy social connections and be more engaged in their community. We offer a range of mental health and wellbeing programs, and take pride in our individualised and person-centred approach. Recent data from…
International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- 3 December 2023
The theme of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities puts disabilities into a broader context of how society affects them and must change to meet them. Pope Francis has always commended the day, focusing on people’s personal needs. Both approaches are necessary. Some disabilities affect individual persons but are made doubly disabling by society.…

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