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New Years Day / World Day of Peace
- 30 December 2020
New Years Day is also the World Day of Peace. It presents an opportunity to reflect on where we stand at the beginning of the new year, and to attend to how we wish to live personally and as a society in the coming year, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ. It can be hard to be…
Christmas
- 23 December 2020
Christmas is marketed in fluffy and tinselling ways – in pastel colours, lots of emphasis on here today and gone tomorrow presents, chocolate and bubbly, friendly faces and cute children. The domestic reality, of course, is more mixed than that. It is certainly about showing children love, celebrations, and families coming together. But it is…
Human Rights Day
- 9 December 2020
Human Rights Day is a time to reflect on what makes human rights human, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ. Human Rights Day is a day worth celebrating. It marks a long history of struggle – for the right of people without property to vote, for example, for the right of women to vote, for the right…
World Children's Day 2020
- 20 November 2020
World Children’s Day is an opportunity to reflect on the gifts that children bring to our lives, as well as the impacts of polices and practices that lead to some children experiencing disadvantage, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ For most children, this year has been one of frustration. They have been unable to go to school,…
Anti-Poverty Week 2020
- 13 October 2020
The importance of connection
- 14 September 2020
National Week of Solidarity 2020
- 7 September 2020
Andy Hamilton SJ on the meaning of charity
- 3 September 2020
The International Day of Charity (5 September 2020) encourages us to be generous in financially supporting programs to help people who are disadvantaged. This support is particularly needed as we struggle to respond to coronavirus. In Australia many people have lost employment, contracted debt, risk losing housing, and are dependent on charitable organisations for food…
Statement regarding Victorian lockdowns and restrictions
- 6 July 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every Australian, directly or indirectly, including in Victoria where a second period of lockdowns and restrictions is in effect. This includes the Victorian Government currently restricting the movements of people living in 12 postcodes across Melbourne, and locking down nine sites across three public housing estates. We…
Refugee Week – the Year of welcome
- 14 June 2020
For Refugee Week, ANDY HAMILTON SJ reflects that in time of isolation, the need for us to unite in care and outreach to people who seek protection is more important than it has ever been. The theme of Refugee Week in 2020 is the Year of Welcome. Welcome is about generosity, opening our arms and…

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