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Federal Election 2022 platform: A blueprint for a just recovery
The Federal Election result in May this year showed that people living in Australia want to see action on key issues including climate change, gender justice, and reducing poverty and inequality.
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A world where prisons are a last resort
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 paper.
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The theme of Refugee Week 2022 is healing, and this comes from the gentle re-making of connections. For refugees, healing comes from hospitality, from welcome, from friendship, from assurance of food, housing and medical care and from the possibility of beginning a new life, writes ANDY HAMILTON SJ.
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Reflecting on the Ignatian Year
Jesuit Social Services' work is grounded in the Ignatian tradition of keeping one foot raised, ready to go where the need is – ANDY HAMILTON SJ charts the history and spirit of this Ignatian Year.