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New aged care structure passes Senate
The Senate has passed sweeping changes to the aged care system that will see residents and in-home care recipients pay more. Source: ABC News.
Journalist aimed to spread ‘story of religion’s contribution to Australia’
Award-winning journalist Rachael Kohn says true democracy needs all Australians, regardless of religious belief, to “work together in common cause”. Source: ACU.
Melbourne’s Syro-Malabar cathedral to be consecrated
It’s been almost 11 years since Pope Francis announced the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of St Thomas the Apostle in Melbourne and tomorrow it will have its own consecrated cathedral. Source: ACBC Media Blog.
Report finds rental affordability the worst on record
Rental affordability is the worst on record in several capital cities, pushing welfare recipients, minimum-wage workers and single-income households to the fringes of Australian communities. Source: Domain.
Melville Island community seeks resident priest
The Catholic community of Melville Island, one of the Tiwi Islands off the coast of the Northern Territory, has made a heartfelt call for a resident priest to return to their shores. Source: Darwin Diocese.
Caritas welcomes Australia’s contribution to climate fund at COP29
Caritas Australia has welcomed the Albanese Government’s $50 million contribution to the loss and damage fund at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29.
Schools should be centres of formation, not achievement factories: Pope
Culture and education must go hand-in-hand to form students into agents of social change driven by hope, Pope Francis said yesterday. Source: CNS.
Kenyan president’s $61,000 donation rejected by Church
A disagreement between Catholic bishops in Kenya and the government has taken a new twist, with the Church rejecting a $61,000 donation from President William Ruto. Source: Catholic Review.
Weekend of guns, stunts and romance
In Weekend in Taipei, a former drug enforcement agent and a former undercover operative revisit their romance, unaware of the dangerous consequences of their past. Source: Australian Catholics.