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Submission to consultation on addressing sexual harassment in Victorian workplaces
Jesuit Social Services contributed to the Department of Justice and Community Safety’s consultation on addressing sexual harassment in Victorian workplaces. We welcome the Victorian Government’s efforts to develop reforms to prevent and better respond to sexual harassment in workplaces. Our submission draws on our experience of working with boys and men for over 40 years…
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Dropping off the Edge 2021 launch
Jesuit Social Services invites you to join us for the launch of Dropping off the Edge 2021, the latest edition of our research into place-based disadvantage in Australia. This will be the fifth edition of our research that has spanned more than 20 years.
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Justice Reinvestment Design Submission
Read our submission to the Justice Reinvestment Design Project.
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More than 200 people gathered at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on March 1st for Jesuit Social Services’ Annual Dinner. The event has traditionally sought to deliver a thought-providing keynote on important social justice issues, give attendees a chance to network and mingle, while raising funds for the organisation’s work. But this year, fundraising took a…
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Music workshops encourage self-expression in Alice Springs school
Hear how students at Yipirinya School have workshopped songs and laid down beats with ARIA Award-winning musician Adrian Eagle, as part of a new relationship between the school and Jesuit Social Services that will provide opportunities for performance, self-expression, and new narratives for First Nations young people in Mparntwe/Alice Springs.
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Plans for secure, cottage-style youth justice facilities welcomed
Jesuit Social Services has welcomed the announcement by Minister for Territory Families, Dale Wakefield, of new youth justice facilities in Darwin and Alice Springs. Jesuit Social Services CEO Julie Edwards said she was pleased to see the NT Government acting quickly and decisively to improve facilities found to be unfit by the Royal Commission into the Protection and…
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Place-based social change on the agenda in Western Sydney
Attendees at the ChangeFest Aboriginal astrology workshop ChangeFest is a national celebration of place-based social change – which empowers and supports local communities to identify, plan, fund and evaluate the services they need. In November 2019, the three-day event was held in Mount Druitt, Western Sydney, where we have worked with and alongside the community…
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World Environment Day: if we exploit the environment, we damage ourselves
On World Environment Day, ANDY HAMILTON SJ urges us to remember we are part of the environment. World Environment Day (5 June 2017) this year comes into fluky winds. The strident public debate about the reality of global warming and the threat it poses to the world has died down. Few knowledgeable people deny its…
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Federal Budget includes youth employment initiatives, but will not address disadvantage
New measures to support vulnerable young people into employment outlined in this week’s Federal Budget are welcome, but a lack of an overarching strategy to tackle poverty and disadvantage will do little to assist vulnerable people, says Jesuit Social Services CEO Julie Edwards. “We are pleased that new initiatives in the Youth Employment Strategy will…
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Jesuit Social Services welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s second consultation paper on the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). On 21 December 2017, the Australian Government ratified OPCAT. OPCAT requires independent inspections of all places of detention in Australia. These will…