CARLTON CONVERSATIONS @ THE CLARE What I Believe … & Why?”conversation series 2011 SUNNY CHEN CHAPLAIN QUEEN’S COLLEGE (UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE) Thursday July 21st 2011 6pm for 6:30pm – 8pm Conversation & Dinner – $15 Students/Concession & $25 Adults BOOK by calling 9347 8171 or 0423 407 499 (email direct: australia-dreaming@carlton-uca.org “I believe in a [...]
By popular demand, the Church of All Nations will host a second screening of Gary Caganoff’s award-winning documentary The Garden at the End of the World. This time it will be a matinee at 2pm on Sunday 5 June. Details here: Garden_at_End_World_flyer_June [1.3MB pdf]. The film features the work of Afghan NGO Mahboba’s Promise. Rev. [...]
The Church of All Nations has launched a cultural program it calls Australia Dreaming. Its first offering is a series of ‘conversations’ with notable public figures exploring “What I believe and why.” They happen one evening a month at the Clare Castle Hotel on the corner of Palmerston and Rathdowne Streets, where some very good [...]
The NT Intervention, now 2 years old, was supposedly a response to the Inquiry into the neglect and abuse of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory chaired by Pat Anderson and Rex Wild. Pat Anderson will be speaking about the Intervention at Melbourne Uni next week: Date: Wednesday 24 June 6 – 7:15pm Venue: Public [...]
In the wake of recent attacks on Indian students, a ‘Harmony Walk‘ will be held on Sunday 12 July, in the hope of promoting social tolerance and harmony. Intended as a symbolic stand against racism and all forms of discrimination, the Walk is a way to express solidarity across differences of race, religion, sexual orientation [...]
Pax Christi is hosting and ideas forum exploring how Christians and Muslims can work together for peace with justice. Among the distinguished speakers is our own Wes Campbell. Click here for further details of this event to be held in Elsternwick on Sunday 21 June.
The ABC and CAN member Renate Howe have made an excellent radio programme aired this afternoon on Radio National. Hindsight is Australia’s only feature radio programme dedicated to social history. It airs at 2pm on Sundays. Today’s programme examined the compulsory acquisition and demolition of ‘slum’ areas in inner Melbourne up to the 1960s, including [...]
Liberty Victoria, one of Australia’s leading human rights organisations, is holding a film fundraiser at the Nova next month. Set during World War II, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a [...]
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Walk Against Warming is a community event which aims to influence our politicians to take action on climate change. Last year record numbers of people took to the streets of Melbourne. The issue is, if anything, more urgent. This year the Melbourne Walk Against Warming will be held on Saturday 15 November, commencing at Federation [...]
