Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) has called on the Australian Government to commission a comprehensive, whole of government audit of regulatory burden on home buying and building. CSSA’s formal submission to the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Housing Regulation follows its joint contribution with the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference to the Senate Select Committee's In...

Image: CSSA. Catholic Social Services Australia is inviting interested parties to participate in a national initiative designed to gather detailed data on the operations, challenges and contributions of Catholic social service organisations across Australia.  As Australians face rising cost-of-living pressures, growing housing insecurity, increasing mental health concerns, and escal...

Catholic social service leaders from across Western Australia gathered at the Duxton Hotel on Thursday 11 June for the 2026 St Mary of the Cross MacKillop Oration, where Catholic Social Services Australia CEO Dr Jerry Nockles delivered a stirring oration titled “Looking Through Difference to see Dignity.” A former Royal Australian Navy officer who served several postings in Western Australi...

The meeting reignited critical discussions regarding Australia’s housing and homelessness crisis. Photo: Phil Bayne. A recent meeting between Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) CEO Dr Jerry Nockles and Ben Rimmer, Director-General of the Housing Group in the Federal Department of Treasury, has reignited critical discussions regarding Australia’s housing and homelessness crisis. Du...

Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) have welcomed the joint announcement by the Federal Minister for Social Services and the Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians on the launch of the Our Ways - Strong Ways - Our Voices: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Plan to End Family, Domestic and S...

An invitation to listen and to act. Image: Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Australia’s Catholic bishops have urged courage and tenderness in addressing the nation’s cost-of-living crisis in their latest social justice statement, The Cost of our Living: Economic and Social Justice for the Common Good. “Across Australia, many of our sisters and brothers are burdened by the rising c...

United States Jesuit priest Fr Fred Kammer SJ will next week speak at two seminars with the aim of animating Catholic social teaching and bringing alive the Church’s best kept secret.

Sky view of a regional town in central western New South Wales. Renters in regional Australia are facing forced evictions as inflation pressures push up the cost of housing and COVID 19 forces mass exodus from bigger cities. Photo: Adobe. Renters in regional Australia are facing forced evictions as inflation pressures push up the cost of housing and COVID 19 forces mass exodus from bigger c...