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Education stress: More principals planning to quit
There are acute warning signs for Australian schools with “a dramatic increase” of principals under stress and considering calling it quits. Source: The Catholic Leader.
Services ‘failing’ First Nations children who have experienced family violence
Child protection, education and health services have failed to promote healing and recovery for First Nations children who have experienced domestic and family violence, a new report has revealed. Source: National Indigenous Times.
Right to unpaid carer leave would affect very few: Productivity Commission
Working Australians with an elderly loved one would prefer more flexible employment arrangements than a newly enshrined right to extended unpaid carer leave, the Productivity Commission says. Source: The Australian.
Pope to make apostolic visit to Hungary
Pope Francis will travel to Hungary in April where he will meet with government officials, refugees, academic scholars and young people in Budapest, the Vatican announced yesterday. Source: CNS.
Expanding outreach to Islam, Vatican establishes diplomatic ties with Oman
In another sign of Pope Francis’ consistent outreach to Islam, the Vatican has established full diplomatic relations with Oman, further extending the Holy See’s relations with the Arab and Muslim worlds. Source: Crux.
NFL star who kicked winning goal in Super Bowl says God is his Chief
Even though Harrison Butker kicked the winning field goal in what he described as “one of the best Super Bowls ever played”, football doesn’t define the Kansas City Chiefs player’s life. Source: CNA.
States pushing the boundaries on right to die
A second wave of voluntary euthanasia laws is being pursued nationally to allow telehealth appointments, abolish residency requirements and extend the schemes to dementia sufferers. Source: The Australian.
Religious education fears fall on deaf ears
A letter from Australia’s most senior religious figures expressing “deep disappointment” with the Australian Law Reform Commission’s inquiry into religious schools “had very little impact” on the thinking of the inquiry’s commissioner. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
Another Catholic voice supports ‘Yes’ vote
Catholic Social Services Australia has expressed its support for the “Yes” vote in the upcoming referendum to constitutionally enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.