Resources
We are a Canberra based ecumenical forum which seeks to engage with the ethical challenges of the contemporary world, locally, nationally and internationally. This page contains resources and links on a wide range of subjects. Please also visit our Past Forums page for presentations, text transcripts and other materials from previous forums.
Statements and articles
- Christmas 2019 Statement by CES Chairman Bishop George Browning titled “Madrid, Christmas and Angus Taylor“
- Federal Election 2019: Analysis of the current rise of the religious Left
- Federal Election 2019; comparison of the main parties’ stance on refugee policy by the Choose Humane campaign.
- Statement by CES Chairman Bishop George Browning on the 2017 visit of Benjamin Netanyahu to Australia: Australia’s foreign policy failing Palestinians
- A solution to our refugee crisis – Frank Brennan, Tim Costello, Robert Manne and John Menadue (12 August 2016)
- Vatican conference on just war theory (April 2016)
- Climate change policy: Australians can be sustainable without sacrificing lifestyle or economy – Steve Hatfield Dodds, 2015
- Letter to the Federal Treasurer, by CES Chairman and Past President Bishop George Browning (September 2015)
- Drug law reform – newsletters published by Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform
- Children in detention – statement by former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (2015), sourced from the Refugee Action Committee, 12 February 2015
- Children in detention – AHRC report, The Forgotten Children: National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention 2014
- Palm Sunday Walk for Refugees – Speech by author Tim Winton (2015)
- Letter to the Prime Minister about the Federal Budget of May 2014
- Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement for 2017-2018: Everyone’s Business: Developing an inclusive and sustainable economy (briefing on the statement theme)
- Nauru nightmare: immigration policy and Australia’s ‘concentration camp’
- Great Native Title Swindle – Fortescue Metals Group (FMG)
- ON LINE Opinion Much more than a “thought bubble” – Dick Smith Tiny [thought] bubbles – Ross Elliot
- Jeopardy (Fukushima) – Commonwealth
- The Converging World: Climate Change, Planetary limits, What can/should we do? – David Teather – Canberra U3A Action Discussion Group
- Paul Collins and the Vatican – Eureka Street
- Poor information and sense of irritation hamper climate change science – Tim Flannery -The Australian
- Briefing Papers (Fact Sheets) – Energy Science
- Stop the Intervention – National Indigenous Times
- Jenny Macklin to Frank Brennan – Eureka Street
- The Northern Territory Intervention and Human Rights: an Anthropological Perspective – Whitlam Institute
- Inside Story – 7 February 2011 – Swinburne Institute for Social Research
- Living Letter report – Beyond Intervention – Many Voices, One Purpose: Standing in Solidarity (pdf, 3.4MB) – NATSIEC
- Newsletters
- Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation ANTaR’s December 2010 Newsletter
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission NATSIEC December 2010 Newsletter
- Bridge for Asylum Seekers Foundation BASF News December Newsletter
- Inside Story – 3rd December 2010
- Can Australia afford not to be reconciled? – Pat Dodson – Speech given at the University of NSW, November 2010
- Can We Secure Our Food Whilst Maintaining Our Environment? – Dr John Williams – Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
- Graeme Innes, Race Discrimination Commissioner, speaks out about Deaths in Custody
- Senate Majority report on the NT Intervention – Senate Minority Report
- Inside Story – Latest Current Affairs and Culture articles
- A modern approach to refugee resettlement – Kerry Murphy – Eureka Street
- Poor Fellow My Country: Lamenting our Poverty of Spirit. Graeme Mundine – NATSIEC
- Nei Neiwa Ya Yu Gali: Towards a Whole Body of Reconciliation – Rev Dr Jonathan Inkpin
- Science and Theology – both need new wine in new wine skins. Dr John Williams – (A lecture given in memory of Prof Charles Birch) – Canberra Uniting Church
- Should Private Barns have a political, legal and moral ascendancy over “Common Wealth”? – Bishop George Browning – Canberra Uniting Church
- Vote for Hope – John Falzon – Eureka Street
- Why conscientious Christians could vote for the Greens – Frank Brennan – Eureka Street
- Refugees: Refugee Policy In The 2010 Federal Election Campaign: What The Parties Are Saying – Refugee Council of Australia Meet a Queue Jumper – Crikey Asylum Numbers in Perspective – Crikey
- “The Collapse of Globalism” – John Ralston Saul – ABC BigIdeas (audio file)
- Gillard mining deal betrays the common good – Michael Mullins – Eureka Street
- The Real Problem with Europe’s Economy – Evan Jones – newmatilda.com
- Abbott and Australia’s new poor – Brian Lawrence – Eureka Street
- Putting a value on nature could set the scene for a true green economy -&- Book Pavan Sukhdev Seminar -&- Centre for Policy Development Seminar
- ACSJC Briefing June 2010
- “The Quest for Justice” (drug related crime) – Supreme Court Judge Ken Crispin – 7:30 Report (Kerry O’Brien)
- Immigration control versus human rights – Kerry Murphy – Eureka Street
- Global Ethics and Human Responsibilities – Hans Küng
- Declaration Toward a Global Ethic – Global Ethics Foundation
- What a waste – An analysis of household expenditure on food – The Australia Institute
- When tolerance doesn’t cut it – Andrew Hamilton – Eureka Street
- The Limits of Crisis Exploitation: The NT Intervention as a Reform Boomerang – Murray Edelman
- GM patents exploit the poor Charles Rue – Eureka Street
Organisations
- Sydney Alliance (participatory democracy)
- Families and Friends for Drug Law Reform (ACT)
- Lifting the Lid (drug and alcohol abuse)
- Australia 21, Shaping the Future (refugees)
- Australian Religious Response to Climate Change
- Centre for Policy Development
