Volunteer profile: Moses El-Fahkri

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…