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HIgher Education

Notre Dame university offers guidance to school students

The University of Notre Dame will establish an educational guidance facility in western Sydney to increase opportunities for local students to get a tertiary education. Source: Mirage News.

Mental Health South Australia

Mental health support workers to help address skills shortage 

Centacare is calling for regional South Australians to use their experiences with mental illness to help others. Source: ABC News.

Homelessness

More funding fails to stem rise in ACT’s rate of long-term homelessness

The ACT’s rate of long-term homelessness – already the worst in the nation – has continued to rise despite a bigger spend on support services. Source: The Canberra Times.

Charity Digital Life

Charities more vulnerable to cyber attacks than private and public sectors

Charities are more vulnerable to cyber attacks than private and governmental organisations despite each sector facing the same risks, new international research suggests. Source: Pro Bono News.

Persecution Southeast Asia

Church leaders urge Myanmar military rulers to protect places of worship

The Church in Myanmar has urged the country’s military rulers to protect places of worship following a series of attacks by the army in Christian-majority areas of the civil war-torn southeast Asian nation. Source: UCA News.

United States

Archbishop prays for victims of California mass shooting

Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez has offered prayers for victims of a shooting on Saturday at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, California. Source: CNA.

Health Modern Slavery

Catholic Health Australia wants national anti-slavery watchdog

Catholic Health Australia is calling on the Albanese Government to establish an independent anti-slavery commissioner as part of reforms to improve the Modern Slavery Act 2018.

Education

Cutting debt for teachers in remote locations a great HELP

The National Catholic Education Commission has welcomed the move by the Albanese Government to cut Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) debt for teachers who stay four years in a “very remote location”.

Northern Territory Seniors

Tiwi Islands elder helped tackle world’s highest suicide rate

Catholic Bernard Tipiloura, the Northern Territory’s Senior Australian of the Year nominee, has spent years trying to create change on the Tiwi Islands after it once recorded the highest suicide rate in the world. Source: SBS News.