Good Samaritan Sister Pauline Coll and Antony McMullen, worker for the Justice and International Mission Unit of the Uniting Church in Melbourne, interviewed by the Catholic Leader in Brisbane …

Published: 23 August 2009 By: Paul Dobbyn

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Good Samaritan Sister Pauline Coll is speaking out about religious items being produced by workers enduring unfair conditions

CATHOLICS need to look carefully at the origins of religious items they buy to ensure they are not the products of child slave labour, a Brisbane religious sister has warned.

The seriousness of the issue has led the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) to pledge its support for a Christian Goods Standard to end worker exploitation in the production of Christian merchandise which also includes T-shirts and Bible covers.

The gambling industry is now actively seeking to get the Government to back-flip …  a number of gambling industry bodies opposed introducing a system to allow gamblers to set limits on how much they are willing to lose…

The State Government’s changes to the TAFE system will see fees rise for thousands of Victorian students. The TAFE4All campaign is fighting to overturn these changes – and this campaign needs your support.

The Welfare Rights Unit (WRU) is a community legal centre located in Collingwood that provides free telephone advice service for people in Victoria with questions about their rights under the social security system and social security law.

The advice service operates Monday to Friday, between the hours of 9.30 am and 12.30 pm. The phones are staffed by paid and unpaid workers trained in social security law.

The WRU is currently seeking volunteers to assist in providing telephone advice. Volunteers would be asked to participate in a training program and then commit to one morning a week to assist on our advice line.