UnitingWorld Experience program is currently advertising a number of overseas placements beginning late in 2014 and early 2015.

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Our hearts are filled with sadness at the news that the Rev Peter N (the first ordained Pitjantjatjara elder) passed away near Pukatja on Sunday last.

Margaret Somerville passed away last week, just short of 102 years old. Please read further for a brief overview of her life and details of the service to be held in Palmerston on 19 August 2014.

The Northern Regional Council of Congress is seeking to fill the position of Women’s Co-ordinator Position.

On the 18 March the Uniting Church in Australia gathered on the lawns in front of Parliament House, Canberra, to pray for justice for Australia’s First Peoples.

BlueCare has announced that it will be taking over the operation of residential and community aged care services in the Northern Territory and Kimberley region of West Australia.

Frontier Services announced yesterday that the Tracy Aged Care residential facility would eventually close.

The Uniting Church has written to the Australian Government to offer sanctuary for all asylum seeker children without parents currently held on Christmas Island, following reports that these children will be transferred to Nauru.

“The Uniting Church will not stand by and watch as the lives of children are decimated by brutal government policies.”

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