Issues of Concern for the Social Justice Network of the NCCA

NCCA Statements

Employment

Click here to view the NCCA Executive statement on employment

What do the member churches say?

Australian Catholic Commission for Employment Relations

The Environment

Click here to view the NCCA Executive statement on sustaining creation 
2002 Social Justice Sunday Kit: Sustaining Creation

What do the member churches say?

Orthodox Ecological Activities
Catholic Earthcare Australia 
Religious Society of Friends statement on Climate Change

Refugees and Racism

Click here to view the NCCA Executive statement on racism 
Subverting Racism: 2003 Social Justice Sunday Kit
Australians shocked by refugee's conditions: NCCA Media Release 
TPV changes not enough: NCCA Media Release 
We're locked away without commiting a crime 

What do the member churches say?

Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee office 
Uniting Church Multicultural Ministry 
Religious Society of Friends: Backhouse Lecture 2006 

Gambling

Click here to view the NCCA Executive statement on Gambling

What do the member churches say?

Housing

Click here to view the NCCA Executive statement on housing

What do the member churches say?

Catholic Welfare Australia 

Poverty

Click here to view the NCCA Executive statement on poverty

What do the member churches say?

Anglicare 
Brotherhood of St Laurence 
International Orthodox Christian Charities 
Caritas Australia 
Christian World Service 
Quaker Service Australia 
UnitingCare 
Uniting International Mission 
Uniting Church Overseas Aid (UCOA) 

Other Issues

Indigenous

Click here for an NCCA sponsored speech on Treaty
Self Determination Under Threat: NCCA Media Release
We must work for reconciliation, but humbly: NCCA Media Release
Redfern Riots - Call for reflection: NCCA Media Release

What do the member churches say?

Religious Society of Friends Indigenous Concerns 
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council 
Uniting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christian Congress 
National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission (NATSIEC) 
Lutheran Aboriginal Ministry

Peace and Nonviolence

What do the member churches say?

Religious Society of Friends: Backhouse Lecture 2005 
Quaker Peace Testimony 

Health and Science

Stem Cell Research is one issue researched by many member churches

What do the member churches say?

Catholic Health Australia
Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

Gender

What do the member churches say?

Commission for Australian Catholic Women 
NCCA Gender Commission

Child Sexual Abuse

Churches gather to share information, experience on addressing sexual abuse: NCCA Media Release

Economic Justice

WCC, IMF and WB in historic meeting: NCCA Media Release
Jubilee Australia