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Welcome to Refugee Week!
The Moderator of the Uniting Church WA has issued this statement for Refugee Week in support of the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA)'s campaign "No Child Left Behind".
To get involved in this movement, click this link and sign the petition today. Additionally, you can have a flick through the Refugee Council of Australia's (RCOA) website to stay up-to-date with the rest of their events for this year.
To highlight Refugee Week, Gabrielle Nind, our Social Justice Officer interviewed Dr Caroline Fleay from the Centre of Human Rights Education at Curtin University. Caroline sheds light of her experience from working as both an academic and activist within this space for the last 30 years. Click here to read the article.
Last Saturday, we saw mass support for Perth's Black Lives Matter rally at Langley Park advocating for anti-racism and ending Aboriginal deaths in custody. Read here Hannah McGlade's powerful speech from the event.
Did you hear the good news? WA Parliament ends imprisonment for unpaid fines! Our Social Justice unit has been working on prison reform issues like this for many years. Now, through Social Reinvestment WA we are so pleased to have this bill passed. To read of our Revive article, click here.
For the sake of justice and peace,
Geoff and Gabi.
With gatherings limited for the foreseeable future, we will be gathering online for our next few events - check out the links and schedule them into your diaries!
Social.Justice.Church Monthly Service (online TBC) Sunday 12 July TBC
Be quick to join in the fun of a Zoom quiz night! This might be your last opportunity to attend a Zoom social event before everything goes back to our ‘New Normal’… whatever that may be!
The Uniting Church Synod of Western Australia acknowledges the Wadjuk people of the Noongar nation, on whose land our Synod office stands. We acknowledge their elders past and present, and their people.
At its 7th Assembly the Uniting Church formally entered into a relationship of Covenant with its Indigenous members, recognising and repenting for the Church’s complicity in the injustices perpetrated on Australia’s Indigenous community, and pledging to move forward with a shared future. Congress’ generous response to this statement, among other messages, called upon the broader Church to take up the mission of reconciliation.
The ongoing and continually renewing nature of the Covenant calls the Uniting Church to continually act to remove the systems and structures of discrimination and oppression in Australia.The Uniting Church works for just, inclusive and equal relationships, recognising the place of First Peoples in Australia.
