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unitingjustice australia UnitingJustice Australia pursues social and ecological justice and peace on behalf of the Uniting Church in Australia, National Assembly. The Assembly's social justice work has had many forms, names, and faces throughout our history. The name UnitingJustice Australia was adopted in March 2003 and launched at the 10th Assembly. Launch of 'UnitingJustice Australia' speech by Rev. Dr Murray Muirhead view [html] UnitingJustice Mandate view [html] download [word.doc] Report to the Eleventh Assembly, 2006 download [pdf.doc] Report to the Tenth Assembly, 2003 download [word.doc] Uniting Faith and Justice A bibliographic essay written in 1998, by Rev Robert Stringer, to mark 21 years of the Uniting Church in Australia's work in social justice and human rights. download [word.doc] TOP contact details National Director: Rev Elenie Poulos Research Officer: Alicia Pearce Postal Address: PO Box A2266, Sydney South NSW 1235 Phone 02 8267 4236 | Fax: 02 8267 4222 Email: unitingjustice@nat.uca.org.au | Website: http://nat.uca.org.au/unitingjustice/ TOP about our staff Rev. Elenie Poulos, National Director Reverend Elenie Poulos is a Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia serving in ministry as the National Director of UnitingJustice Australia in the National Assembly. Elenie attends Pitt Street Uniting Church in Sydney. She is a member of the National Assembly Working Group on Worship and a member of the Council of United Theological College in the NSW Synod. She was a member of the Working Group on Doctrine from 1997-2006. Elenie represented the Uniting Church at the World Council of Churches General Assembly in Port Alegre, Brazil in 2006 and was recently elected to a World Council of Churches' advisory group, the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA). She is actively engaged with the National Council of Churches is Australia (NCCA) as Deputy Chair of Christian World Service (CWS) and as a member of the Social Justice Network. Elenie has a long standing interest in refugee issues, and has been on the Board of the Australian National Committee on Refugee Women (ANCORW) for seven years. Prior to her current position with the National Assembly, Elenie was School Chaplain at MLC School Burwood, NSW, for six years. She has a professional background in book publishing and an academic background in linguistics (BA Hons), language in education (MA), and theology (BTh). She is currently a doctoral student at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney. Alicia Pearce, Research Officer Alicia began working at UnitingJustice in May 2005. Previously she worked for a number of years as a Research Assistant at the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (acirrt) at the University of Sydney. She has also worked for the Commonwealth Department of Workplace Relations and in a voluntary capacity for the NSW Working Womens Centre. Alicia has an honours degree in Gender Studies and Industrial Relations. Her areas of interest include industrial relations and international labour policy, difference and discrimination, and she is interested in broad ranging policy initiatives for a more equitable society. TOP subscribe to unitingjustice news [justice-news@uniting.com.au] to receive information and updates on our work Send an email to imailsrv@uniting.com.au with a blank subject line and subscribe justice-news please in the body of the message. click here to subscribe TOP the unitingjustice network UnitingJustice Australia works in collaboration and partnership with the Synods of the Uniting Church. This network of church 'justice contacts' and 'justice agencies' includes: UnitingCare NSW-ACT http://unitingcarenswact.org.au/ Justice and International Mission, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania http://jim.victas.uca.org.au Social Justice and Uniting International Mission, Synod of Western Australia http://justice.wa.uca.org.au/ Justice and International Misssion Advocate, Queensland Synod http://www.socialissues.ucaqld.com.au/ Synod of South Australia http://www.sa.uca.org.au Northern Synod http://ns.uca.org.au/ TOP justice throughout the church UnitingJustice Australia is part of the Assembly's contribution to the Uniting Church movement for social and ecological justice and peace. The church pursues justice and peace through mission, service, and advocacy; and also through worship, witness, and education. Uniting Church people work for justice and peace at all levels from local congregations to the National Assembly. In the Uniting Church National Assembly, our pursuit of social justice and peace is much wider than the work of UnitingJustice: Development and Eradicating Poverty Overseas Uniting International Mission, Uniting Church Overseas Aid http://www.overseasaid.org/ucoa.html Eradicating Poverty in Australia UnitingCare Australia http://www.unitingcare.org.au/ Indigenous Justice and Reconciliation Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress http://nat.uca.org.au/uaicc/index.htm Covenanting http://www.covenanting.unitinged.org.au/ Peace-building Uniting International Mission http://www.uim.uca.org.au/uim.html Serving Rural and Remote Communities Frontier Services http://www.frontierservices.org/ TOP Doing Justice Can we talk about Jesus and not tell of his commitment to those who are outcast or forgotten or pushed to the fringes? Doing Justice is a selection of stories about ordinary people in the Uniting Church who believe that our response to God's love for us in Christ requires doing justice. These stories of hope from everyday believers encourage us all to take seriously the Bible's teachings and ministry of Jesus. available from MediaCom - cost: $14.95 Phone: (08) 8371 1399, email: admin@mediacom.org.au, website: http://www.mediacom.org.au/ |
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