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Concerns raised over disability scheme changes
Participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme will, in most cases, no longer be able to appeal against their total amount of funding support to any external review body, executives have confirmed. Source:The Guardian.
New report highlights scourge of loneliness
A New South Wales Upper House report has found that widespread loneliness is a social scourge associated with poor mental and physical health, social behaviour and educational and employment outcomes. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Search engines asked to blur inappropriate images
Search engines will soon have to blur pornographic image results to protect children from accidental exposure and automatically redirect Australians seeking information on self-harm to mental health supports. Source: ABC News.
Campaign to end death penalty steps up in US
Catholics and pro-life conservatives joined a broad coalition of more than 50 organisations seeking to end the death penalty in the United States amid the 2025 surge in executions. Source: CNA.
Threats made against Bangladesh Catholic colleges
The president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Bangladesh has raised alarm after an Islamic group threatened to attack two prominent Catholic colleges in Dhaka, accusing them of converting Muslims. Source: UCA News.
Emotional film debut for director Johansson
After a devastating loss, witty and proudly troublesome Eleanor Morgenstein tells a tale that takes on a life of its own. Source: Australian Catholics.
Dialogue and respect could help end Middle East conflicts: Pope
At the end of his first foreign trip as Pope, which focused on dialogue, Pope Leo XIV said the examples of friendship and respect he had witnessed could serve as a helpful model for others. Source: CNS.
Catholic sector urges Government to change system
Catholic Health Australia has urged the Albanese Government to shift residential aged care from a “rationed model” to a “demand-driven system”. Source: The Weekly Source.
Wells dismisses YouTube criticism of ban as ‘outright weird’
Concerns raised by YouTube that Australia’s social media ban for children will leave them “less safe”, thereby undermining the intent of the world-first restrictions, have been dismissed by Communications Minister Anika Wells as “outright weird”. Source: The Australian.