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Uniting Justice-(Refugee Sunday, NT Action, Fed Election)

Refugee and Migrant Sunday: 26th august 2007

On Refugee and Migrant Sunday, thousands of Churches around Australia will celebrate the contribution refugees and migrants have made to Australia. The National Council of Churches has produced a free education kit with a poster, liturgy and education sheets for congregations and schools. You might:
- Use the liturgy to celebrate refugees in your church
- Use the education kit to give a talk or hold a discussion
- Arrange a refugee speaker or organise a movie night
- Raise funds to help Christian World Service support refugees in camps overseas.

Download the free education kit at www.ncca.org.au/cws/rdp/rms

Read up on the Uniting Church’s views on refugees and asylum seekers at our website

Northern Territory Indigenous Communities Intervention

The Justice and International Mission Unit in the Synod of Victoria and Tasmania has produced a letter writing action on the Government’s plans for the Northern Territory, based on the initial plan of action announced by the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Hon. Mal Brough. You can download this material from the UnitingJustice website.

Download the letter writing action from our website

Federal Election 2007

UnitingJustice has been working hard coordinating the Church’s Federal Election Resource, which will be available progressively from the middle of August, with both web-based and paper components. It includes issues papers, hot issues briefs, and an election toolkit with ideas for Church members and communities to become more involved in the electoral process, and has been very popular in the past.

The resource is a collaborative project contributed to by National Assembly and Synod agencies. It is not party political. It seeks to raise issues and engage Church members in exploring the implications of gospel values for different aspects of national life/