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The Lockyer community's fundraising efforts have aided iconic not-for-profit organisation Blue Care's efforts to develop a highly-anticipated new centre at 8 Dawson Drive, Gatton. Construction of the $3.3 million new Blue Care Lockyer Community Care will begin next week and Service Manager Elaine Horrocks said she and the team couldn't be happier as they'd outgrown their leased space at 1 ...

Frontier Services welcomes a parliamentary report which has highlighted the negative impact of fly-in fly-out and drive-in drive-out work practices on remote communities and urges all levels of Government and mining companies to act on the report's findings. The Parliamentary Inquiry, which began in 2011, found the growth of the resources industry and the accompanying FIFO/DIDO workforce practices "are exacerbating ...

Blue Care Mareeba has unveiled a $10 million refurbishment bringing local services together on the one site at MacRae Street, Mareeba. The project includes the refurbishment of the Blue Care Mareeba Garden Settlement Aged Care Facility and the opening of new offices for Blue Care Tablelands Community Care, Mareeba Day Therapy Centre and Mareeba Respite Care. Blue Care Executive Director ...

UnitingCare has welcomed a modest increase to income support payments, but hopes that more is coming in the 2013 budget. UnitingCare Australia National Director Lin Hatfield Dodds says that low income Australians will be better off under new legislation which passed the House of Representatives on 5 February. The Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Income Support Bonus) Bill 2012, ...

1 February: Blue Care‘s Rockhampton services are well-prepared for the expected peak of the Fitzroy River on the weekend, said Executive Director Robyn Batten. Blue Care operates a community and respite care service, allied health services, independent retirement living and the Blue Care Gracemere Aged Care Facility, serving more than 800 people in Rockhampton and the surrounding area. “Though our ...

Margaret Adsett, from St Andrew's Uniting Church in Brisbane CBD, can tell you how many choices of biscuit there are in the average supermarket aisle. "There are over 200 choices of biscuit alone, and they say there are 35 000 items in total in your average supermarket," says Ms Adsett. "Imagine that! Compare that to places where people have no ...

The Wesley Hospital has launched a comprehensive school internship program with the aim of inspiring students considering a career in the healthcare sector. The Wesley School Internship Program comprised of 28 Year-11 students from 11 Brisbane schools, and ran for one week at the hospital from 3 to 7 December 2012. The tailored program provided students with a practical and ...

UNITING Church people across Australia are being urged to complain to their parliamentary representatives about the Government's decision to divert foreign aid from alleviating poverty overseas to pay for processing asylum seekers in Australia. "In complete contradiction to the Christmas spirit, the Government is stealing from the poor to support a system that punishes the vulnerable," said UnitingWorld National Director ...

MORE than 60 volunteers from Uniting Church congregations and UnitingCare service groups throughout Queensland have made a good start in encouraging people to donate to the annual UnitingCare Christmas gift appeal by organising publicity in their local papers and on local radio. This is the 21st year that Target and UnitingCare have joined forces to brighten the Christmas of people ...

SOUTH Rockhampton Uniting Church launched their November fundraising drive for the UnitingWorld supported Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) project in Mwandi, Zambia, with a trivia night that raised over $1300. Around 35 per cent of the Mwandi population are living with HIV/AIDS and there are an estimated 1300 orphans and vulnerable children. The OVC project provides educational, social and nutritional ...