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This page contains speeches of speakers at the Social Justice Seminar - The Church, the State, the Media: who sets the social justice agenda? held on Saturday30 August 2008.

The speakers at the seminar comprised a sparkling panel of four speakers included Rev'd Elenie Poulos National Director of Uniting Justice in Australia and a member of the World Council of Churches Advisory group; Jack Waterford AM, Editor at Large of the Canberra Times, whose articles in that paper repeatedly reflect his own passion for social justice and especially for Australia’s indigenous people; Professor John Langmore, former MP  for the Canberra electorate of Fraser, former Head of the Social Welfare Secretariat of the United Nations and now a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and ANU political scientist, Professor John Warhurst, a political commentator in the Canberra Times, a recent President of the Australian Republican Movement  and a layperson actively involved in the Catholic Social Justice movement.

Click on these links to listen to the speeches:  

Rev'd Elenie Poulus, National Director of Uniting Justice in Australia
Jack Waterford AM, Editor at Large of the Canberra Times
Professor John Langmore, Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne
Professor John Warhurst, ANU political scientist
 

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Sundays

9:30 am

  • Holy Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of each month

  • Worship at the 9:30am service includes a choir anthem and features a pipe organ.

5.30 pm

  • Café Worship is developing.

For young people 

On the fourth Sunday of each month a Youth Service is conducted at 6:00pm