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Social Services Youth

CSSA joins call to raise minimum age of criminal responsibility to 14 years

Catholic Social Services Australia has written to Australia’s attorneys-general, urging immediate action on the recommendations of a recent inquiry’s final report into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system.

Politics

Australians will live longer and retire with more super in 2066: Report

Australians will live longer and retire with more super in 2066 despite the world becoming “more unpredictable, more unequal”, Treasurer Jim Chalmers will say in a speech today. Source: The Australian.

Pope Leo XIV Social Teaching

Pope praises Catholics leading Church ‘in new directions’

Pope Leo XIV has highlighted the contributions of laypeople and religious who helped shape Catholic social teaching and embodied “a Church forging ahead in new directions”. Source: EWTN News.

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