SMASHING THE SOUND OF SILENCE – TASMANIA

SMASHING THE SOUND OF SILENCE – TASMANIA

Imagine being deaf, or hearing impaired, and spending your school days in a hearing community, where no other children understand what it is like to not be able to hear properly. Then a group of committed teachers decide to get all the deaf and hearing-impaired kids...

MAKERS TAKE A STAND AT THE MARKET – DALLAS VIC

There’s some new makers on the block at the Dallas Community Hub and their wares will soon be for sale. Beaded jewellery, made by women who attend the hub’s weekly coffee/craft club, will be on sale at an upcoming Dallas Brooks Community Primary School market at the...
VOLUNTEERS CREATE PATHWAYS – BROADMEADOWS, VIC

VOLUNTEERS CREATE PATHWAYS – BROADMEADOWS, VIC

Women came to the Meadows Primary School Community hub last year to make stars as part of a global movement against family violence. Hub coordinator Maureen Leahy set up the ribbons and materials for the one-hour session. It lasted all day. The women, all part of the...
PUSHING AGAINST THE TIDE – KIRABATI

PUSHING AGAINST THE TIDE – KIRABATI

Pacific Calling Partnership (PCP) worker Maria Timon Chi-Fang shares the grief of many of the young people she helped train in Kiribati last year. Like them, she knows the threat climate change poses to the country she still calls home. “They know it might disappear,”...
FINDING MEANING IN A CHAOTIC/CHANGING WORLD

FINDING MEANING IN A CHAOTIC/CHANGING WORLD

This was the title of Frank Brennan sj’s  John Wallis Memorial Lecture in Toowoomba on Sunday 7th May 2017. In his usual clear and concise way, Father Frank looked at what is happening in our world and where current events and trends have brought us...