Construction at South Australia’s ‘greenest’ building marks key milestone reaching top floor Adelaide’s new U City development in the heart of the CBD has reached a key milestone today with the building ‘topping out’, as construction reaches the final 20th level of the project on the corner of Franklin and Pitt Street. U City is…
The SA Government has cut the Communication Partner Service in today’s budget, removing the opportunity for people with communication disabilities to have their voice heard and understood in our legal system. “This funding cut is false economy, removing a very cost effective, volunteer provided service that brings together police, the court system and a NGO…
CUTS TO NATIVE TITLE SERVICES AND SILENT ON REMOTE HOUSING The 2018-19 State budget includes very few positives for First Nations South Australians. The positives include a welcomed State contribution of $50,000 (2018-19) towards the provision of permanent community-based dialysis treatment services on the APY Lands, and the establishment of a position for a Commissioner…
Poverty can be tackled in South Australia. We are part of one of the richest countries on earth at the richest time in human history, so if ever there was a time to tackle poverty and disadvantage, it is now. There is clear need to do much more than just ‘more of the same’ which has…
Like many I have been witness to the sad demise of South Australia’s approach to child protection over more than 2 decades. We have not been alone in our struggle to develop and implement a system that works for children, families and the community at large. However South Australia has, arguably, struggled to find the…
Uniting Communities has sent a submission to the legislative council outlining our concerns about the SA government’s proposed legislation for mandated treatment for children and young people who are dependent on drugs (click here for our submission). Uniting Communities has been providing specialist drug and alcohol treatment services for many years and so we see…
Uniting Communities has concerns about the above Bill currently before the Parliament which attempts to mandate treatment from non-compliant drug addicted young people. Dependence on alcohol and other drugs is a chronic relapsing health condition. While Uniting Communities’ welcomes the government’s good intentions to deal with a difficult problem of concern to a small but significant group…
Evidence and reports from communities indicate that the implementation of the Cashless Debit Card has not achieved the results which are being claimed by the Federal Government. Instead of punishing people on income support by placing them on the Card the Government should be directing its attention to increasing public housing stock and ensuring the…
Uniting Communities congratulates the ACCC on delivering a report proposing a practical path to average energy savings of about 20% within 3 years in South Australia and calls on governments, industry and regulators to deliver on the 56 recommendations. The report recognises ‘once and for all’ that energy prices are too high. The ACCC says…
Today marks the beginning of a national week of action for Family Matters, a campaign to address the growing over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in child protection and care. Aboriginal children are currently being removed from their families at almost ten times the rate of non-Aboriginal children across Australia.…
