The free online healthcare screening tools and professional development modules are available to healthcare professionals who are uniquely positioned to identify, respond to, and refer victims of modern slavery to specialist support. Image: ACRATH. Modern slavery in Australia remains hidden in plain sight and often overlaps with family violence, homelessness, substance dependence, mental il...

End Child Poverty chair, Tony Pietropiccolo AM, said child poverty is one of Australia’s most serious and persistent economic challenges. Image: Supplied. New government economic advice has revealed that child poverty in Australia is not rare with almost one in two children (45 per cent) living in income poverty at some point during childhood. The Economic Inclusion Advisory Committee’s ...

The Federal Budget has drawn a measured but hopeful response from both the St Vincent de Paul Society and Catholic Health Australia who have welcomed reforms they believe could improve the lives of Australians facing housing stress, poverty, illness and ageing. However, both organisations have also warned that much more needs to be done to ensure vulnerable people are not left behind. In a ...

We are called in every place by our words, how we speak to one another, by our deeds, to bear witness to the new reality, said St Mary’s Cathedral Dean, Rev Dr Sean Fernandez, speaking on Friday 25 November, the United Nations (UN) International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Three years after multiple bombings killed more than 260 people on Easter and lingering questions remain about those behind the attacks, Pope Francis appealed to Sri Lankan authorities to shed light on what happened.