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Queensland Community Alliance

"Torres Strait 8" Traditional Owner Yessie Mosby showing Archbishop Jeremy Greaves the impacts of climate change, including the shrinking shoreline and where the ancestral resting places were previously located before being washed away, at his family’s property on Masig on Saturday 11 May 2024
National

Torres Strait 8 traditional owner and Archbishop Jeremy call upon the prime minister to say “yes” to Yessie during National Reconciliation Week in an open letter

Archbishop Jeremy and Torres Strait 8 spokesperson Yessie Mosby have today invited the prime minister to meet them on the Torres Strait Island of Masig to witness the devasting impacts of climate change on the low-lying island

Video

Voices For Peace: New resource promoting a socially inclusive future

Voices For Peace is a new resource from the Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma — whom the ACSQ is affiliated with through the Queensland Community Alliance and the BRASS Network — featuring community members and leaders sharing their thoughts and advice on what building a socially inclusive future entails

Justice & Advocacy

When assumptions go awry

“I recently shared some of my experiences with elected student leaders from St John’s College within the University of Queensland alongside the anglican focus editor Michelle McDonald. We were invited by the college to run a session for the student leaders on cultural capability and we shared the following personal stories in our workshop,” says Bishop Daniel Abot

Justice & Advocacy

Seeking nourishment, healing and a way forward after the referendum

“One of the greatest tragedies of the referendum outcome is that the lives of non-Indigenous Australians who voted ‘no’ will continue on the same just as their lives would have continued on the same if they had voted ‘yes’. It is the lives of First Nations peoples who will be impacted by the referendum result — and negatively so for decades to come,” says Aunty Dr Rose Elu