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St Andrew’s, South Brisbane Youth Group leader Oscar Delaney has won the 2021 Australasian Religious Press Association Gold Award for ‘Best Young Writer’, with 29 Diocesan community members contributing anglican focus content to two Facebook campaigns that collectively won Bronze in the ‘Best Social Media Campaign’ category
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There is strong Anglican involvement in a long-running public campaign to keep in Australia a Tamil family threatened with deportation on 22 September, including from Biloela Anglican and close family friend Angela Fredericks and Bishop Jeremy Greaves
Over 300 organisations, businesses and community groups have signed a joint letter to all Federal MPs and Senators calling on them to take urgent action on the devastating situation in Afghanistan, including Anglican Board of Mission
The NCCA recently held an Assembly Roundtable to explore how Australian Churches can hold and energise ‘The Uluru Statement From the Heart’, with a focus on the importance of relationship building and yarning and why they are central to our Churches
Due to COVID-19, our Diocesan community will be celebrating NAIDOC Week in the first week of September. To celebrate NAIDOC Week 2021, with the theme ‘Heal Country’, Mudyala Aboriginal Corporation collaborated with Thunderbox Films to create this powerful short story. The story accentuates the beautiful ongoing connection that young First Nations women Chenoa, Tamia, Alana, Yeerra and Nyan have with Country. The voice of Mother Earth is spoken by Yaegl Elder and NATSIAC representative The Rev’d Aunty Lenore Parker
Anglicare Australia and other leading charities, including The Fred Hollows Foundation, St Vincent de Paul and the Aboriginal Executive Council, have written to three UN Special Rapporteurs on democracy and freedom of expression, calling on them to take urgent action to stop new rules targeting charities
Dozens of Anglican Bishops nationally have sent an open letter to the Prime Minister and the Immigration Minister, calling for the immediate return of a young Sri Lankan Tamil family to the rural Queensland town of Biloela, after the youngest family member captured the heart of the nation this week
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