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Sometimes a phone is just a phone: A look at poverty, perspective and progress

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 05:48:19 +0000

Our standard vision of poverty is often restricted to images of people lacking all the necessities but as Cath Taylor discovered in West Timor, our preconceptions can get in the way of facilitating change. The moment I spot the mobile phone I flash an eyebrow at our photographer. It says, “Uh-oh, can we get that ...

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Inequality and the power of imagining a different world

QLD Synod Webmaster — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 05:42:07 +0000

Ahead of Anti-Poverty week, director of UnitingJustice Rev Elenie Poulos has written a piece for Wesley Mission Brisbane highlighting the growing inequality in Australian society. In her article she writes about the factors driving inequality both in Australia and overseas: ” … somewhere along the way, the world was hijacked by neoliberal economic theory and ...

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Photos reveal face of Aussie poverty

QLD Synod Webmaster — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 02:03:44 +0000

Queensland’s Anti-Poverty Week launch will unveil the surprising face of poverty in Australia. Rohan Salmond reports. For more than ten years, Anti-Poverty Week has been a reminder for Australians that poverty is a real part of their community and their world. From an Australian point of view, poverty can feel like a distant, abstract problem, ...

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Brisbane church leaders shine light on corruption

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 02:13:48 +0000

Uniting Church Queensland Synod Moderator Rev Kaye Ronalds joined Brisbane church leaders at a prayer vigil on 17 October against the endemic corruption which keeps people in poverty across the world. The ecumenical vigil at Wilson Outlook Reserve in Brisbane was one of an estimated 2000 prayer vigils held worldwide during Anti-poverty Week from 13–19 ...

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Transformed by hope

QLD Synod Webmaster — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:45:53 +0000

It is easy to overlook the stories of others when we do not have a name and a face to put to them. The power of getting to know others personally is indisputable and can completely change our worldview, but getting to know people who are radically different from us is a challenge. Oceans—both literal ...

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