Media Releases

2022

  • Uniting Church WA calls for an urgent increase in funding to homelessness services
  • Uniting Church WA calls for a ban on all gambling advertising
  • Uniting Church WA calls for no new fossil fuel projects
  • 2021

  • UCA opts in on redress
  • Uniting Church WA calls to protect LGBTQA+ community from harmful ‘conversion therapies’
  • Uniting Church WA calls to end deaths in custody
  • 2020

  • Uniting Church says State Climate Policy is a missed opportunity that leaves WA falling behind
  • Uniting Church WA calls for no-one to be left behind in Refugee Week
  • Uniting Church says WA’s $1.2 billion surplus could be used to help people out of poverty
  • Reduce the number of Aboriginal children in care
  • Call for protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
  • Call for investment in renewable energy and social housing
  • 2019

  • MEDIA RELEASE: Ringing the bells of climate change – Uniting Church in Australia: President, Moderator and members urge Climate Action
  • Perth Christians and Muslims unite to stand in solidarity with the international Muslim community in response to the tragedy in Christchurch, NZ.
  • Uniting Church WA supports a whole-of-community approach to resettling refugees
  • Uniting Church WA calls for an increase to international aid
  • Uniting Church WA calls for an end to the Cashless Debit Card
  • Uniting Church WA calls for a First Nations’ Voice in Australia’s Constitution
  • Uniting Church WA opts to deliberate further on Voluntary Assisted Dying
  • 2018

  • Uniting Church WA Calls for urgent reform at WA’s Banksia Hill Detention Centre
  • South West Forests Need Protection
  • Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics in WA
  • Uniting Church WA calls to reinstate ‘SRSS Safety Net’ support program
  • Moderators 15th Triennial Assembly Same Gender Marriage Pastoral Letter
  • Church leaders stand #WithRefugees on World Refugee Day
  • Pastoral Letter from the President on Marriage and same-gender relationships
  • 2017

  • Newstart and Youth Allowance payments trapping people in a poverty cycle
  • Perth Churches Combine for Anti-Poverty Week Event
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