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Caritas Australia's free e-magazine, OzSpirit, this week focuses on Indigenous Justice and the story of Amos. To learn more about this and other social justice issues in Australia and around the world, take a look at OzSpirit.

It is available at www.ozspirit.com or through the Caritas Australia web site, www.caritas.org.au, where you can subscribe on-line for free.

NSW: Conversation: Diversity – Rights, Respect, Reconciliation, Responsibility, 20 February 2008
Professor Andrew Jakubowicz, Humanities & Social Sciences and Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre , University of Technology Sydney, in conversation with co-convenor Maqsood Alshams, Director, SAVE Australia Inc. invites you to join them for a conversation about the interrelated issues of human rights, Indigenous reconciliation, citizenship and inter-communal relations. All welcome. 12.30 – 1.30 pm, Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, Level 2, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney. Web: www.sydneymsa.com.au

 

NSW: Mental Health Services Forum: “Time to Listen, Time to Act” 22 February 2008.
The forum will consider the social and emotional well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Speakers will include Dr Helen Milroy, Tom Calma, Prof. Ernest Hunter and Coralie Ober. Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street Ultimo. Registration: $550. Register online at www.themhs.org or (02) 9810 8700. As registrations will be limited to 200, early booking is recommended.

 

NSW: Talk by Archbishop Odama from Uganda, 10 March 2008
Archbishop John Baptista Odama, of the Gulu Diocese in northern Uganda, is renowned for his peace building efforts in the horrendous twenty-year conflict in the region.
As the senior leader of the Catholic Church in the Diocese, and the President of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, the Archbishop has played an instrumental role as negotiator between the two main warring parties, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan Government forces.
The Diocese of Parramatta and Caritas Australia invite you to hear Archbishop Odama speak on Monday 10 March, 2008 at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Hall, Swanston St, St Mary’s, 6.30pm. Light refreshments will be available from 6.00 pm

 

QLD: “Land and Culture: Economic Development, Environmental Issues, 99-Year Leases, Land Rights and Native Title” Speech by Mr Tom Calma, 20 February 2008
Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Islander Commissioner, Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, Aboriginal elder from the Kungarakan tribal group and a member of the Iwaidja tribal group in the Northern Territory, will present a speech titled Land and Culture: Economic Development, Environmental Issues, 99-Year Leases, Land Rights and Native Title at the Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) annual general meeting on Wednesday 20 February at 7.30 p.m. His speech is one in a series of Essentials for Social Justice speeches.  The ANTaR AGM will commence at 6.30 p.m. at the QCU Building, 16 Peel Street, South Brisbane. 
 As refreshments will be served at 7.15 p.m., please RSVP for catering purposes to office@antarqld.org.au or by phoning 3844 9800. 

 

QLD: Women, faith and a Culture of Peace, Multi-faith symposium 23 -25 February 2008
The Griffith University's Multi-Faith Centre and Believing Women for a Culture of Peace are co-hosting an inter-faith symposium titled Women, Faith & A Culture of Peace which will highlight the contribution of women in the Asia/Pacific region to inter-faith dialogue and initiatives.
The symposium will be held from Saturday 23 February to Monday 25 February at the Multi-Faith Centre. Panellists and workshop presenters come from around Australia and the Asia/Pacific region.
For full details and a registration form, go to www.griffith.edu.au

 

For more events in Queensland subscribe to the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission's newsletter by contacting Peter Arndt at:
arndtp@bne.catholic.net.au

 

NT: Walking With Spirits, Indigenous Festival, 28 July 2008
Walking With Spirits is an annual celebration of indigenous culture of the Wugularr (Beswick) Community and engages traditional and contemporary artistic media (including lighting, sound amplification, fire and projection) to share the cultural traditions of Beswick people and their families from around Arnhem Land. It is held at Malkgulumbu (Beswick Falls), Wugularr (Beswick) Community from 6:00pm on Saturday 28th July 2007. More

For more events around Australia subscribe to the Briefing papers from the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, which can be viewed online at:
www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au