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Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner appears before CEDAW

Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner appears before CEDAW

The Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Elizabeth Broderick, has appeared before the United Nations Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in New York this week.

21 July 2010

Memorial Service for Victorian Bushfire victims

Memorial Service for Victorian Bushfire victims

To this Abbey Church of St Peter we come today, as many thousands have before us, to grieve enormous pain and loss, to remember those who have so tragically died and to affirm they will not be forgotten

06 April 2009

Australia's fire-storm churches need long-term help

Australia's fire-storm churches need long-term help

As the death toll from the cataclysmic fires that continue to sweep rural Victoria, creeps towards 200, Anglicans from the worst affected town are determined to rebuild their devastated church

17 February 2009

Archbishop Philip Freier to visit fire affected areas

Archbishop Philip Freier to visit fire affected areas

Archbishop Philip Freier will visit today, where possible, some of the areas affected in the weekend’s firestorm.

09 February 2009

100-year construction completed on Brisbane cathedral

100-year construction completed on Brisbane cathedral

The last stage in the 100 year-plus construction of St John’s Anglican Cathedral has been completed with the lowering of a 13 metre tall copper-clad spire onto its final resting place, the Central Tower.

11 November 2008

Community of the Transfiguration

Community of the Transfiguration

For over a millennium, if Christians wanted to read theology, practice Christian spirituality, or study the Bible, they went to the monastery to do so. 

07 October 2008

Anglicare is turning 25

Anglicare is turning 25

Anglicare is celebrating its 25th birthday on the evening of September 24, 2008 with a celebration for members, employees and clients.

10 September 2008

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council Meets

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council Meets

Indigenous People have significant contribution to Anglican Spiritual Life, Says newly elected chair, Archdeacon Brian Kirk

 

05 September 2008

Death of the Revd Canon Dr Christopher Newell AM

Death of the Revd Canon Dr Christopher Newell AM

The Anglican Church in Tasmania has received with deep sadness the news of the untimely death of one of its most prominent priests and university academic Associate Professor Christopher Newell.

25 June 2008

First woman bishop appointed in Victoria, Australia

First woman bishop appointed in Victoria, Australia

The Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Philip Freier, has announced the appointment of Canon Barbara Darling as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Melbourne.

25 April 2008