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The Uniting Church in Australia (UCA) was formed on 22 June 1977, when the Congregational Union in Australia, the Methodist Church of Australasia, and the Presbyterian Church of Australia joined together. The UCA understands its call as being to serve God’s passion for a better world as set out in the UCA’s way of living and being in the Basis of Union.

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World Refugee Day – Uniting Church calls for more compassion in Australia’s asylum seeker policies

June 20th, 2014

On World Refugee Day, the Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Western Australia believes the time for a change in asylum seeker policy is well overdue. The Acting Moderator, Rev Ken Williams said, “We are continuing to witness the decline of mental health among asylum seekers languishing in substandard offshore detention facilities that breach our international human rights obligations. For people who came to us with hope for a life free of persecution, we are persistently and cruelly extinguishing what read more >>

A budget that challenges the most vulnerable

May 14th, 2014

The national council of the Uniting Church in Australia has urged the Federal Government to maintain the closest possible scrutiny on how Australia’s most vulnerable are affected by the tough changes in the 2014 Federal Budget. “The Federal Budget lays out an extensive range of program cuts and structural changes,” said President of the Uniting Church Assembly, Rev Prof Andrew Dutney. “Cutting more than half a billion dollars from Indigenous programs, tough new conditions for youth support, and making read more >>