Submissions
Response to the Rights and Attitudes Issues Paper
The Uniting Church in Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide a brief response to the Royal Commission’s Issues Paper on Rights and attitudes. Recommendations The Uniting Church makes the following recommendations to increase awareness of the rights of people with…
Aged Care Royal Commission summary submission, incorporating second response to investigation of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on aged care services and response to Financing Aged Care (consultation paper 2)
Contents Executive summary Our recommendations Introduction Principles of economic equity and implications for the aged care system The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and implications for services for elders The transition that needs to start now Elements of the aged…
Response to the Emergency Planning and Response Issues Paper
The Uniting Church in Australia welcomes the opportunity to provide a response to the Royal Commission’s Issues Paper on Emergency planning and response. The Uniting Church thanks those across the life of the Church who provided information for…
Senate Select Committee on COVID-19
Overview The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic have been far reaching, affecting all corners of society. We commend the Australian Government for decisive interventions that have helped to stabilise infection rates, prevent health systems being overwhelmed, and save lives. We…
Aged Care Royal Commission – Investigation of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on aged care services
UnitingCare Australia welcomes the invitation from the Royal Commission to make submissions to enable an investigation of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on aged care services. Residential aged care services have served the country well in terms of…
Aged Care Royal Commission: Future Program Redesign and Workforce – response to submissions of counsel assisting
This submission to the Aged Care Royal Commission provides UnitingCare Australia’s perspectives on future aged care services programs. It focuses first on context and intersecting issues in order to highlight what we see as some of the challenges of model…
National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Small Amount Credit Contract and Consumer Lease Reforms) Bill 2019 (No. 2)
This joint submission urges Parliament to pass reforms which would improve protections for people who use payday loans and consumer leases. Current laws are ineffective, enabling predatory lenders to charge excessive feeds and entrench people in a cycle of debt…
2020-21 Pre-Budget Submission
In 2020, UnitingCare Australia urges the Federal Government to adopt a more equitable and sustainable Budget strategy: a strategy that tackles economic inequality, secures the revenue to guarantee essential services for our ageing population, repairs the social safety net, and…
Aged Care Program Redesign: Services for the Future
UnitingCare Australia has provided our ‘future vision’ document Ageing to our Full Potential1 to the Royal Commission. Ageing to our Full Potential represents the collective thinking of the organisations of the Uniting Church in Australia that are providers of aged care. Contents Introduction Leadership…
Religious Freedoms Bills (Second Exposure Drafts)
The Uniting Church in Australia commends efforts to strengthen legislative protections to prevent discrimination against people on the ground of their religion at the federal level. However, in seeking to achieve this, we believe the redrafted Religious Freedom Bills do…
Child Social Exclusion, Poverty and Disadvantage in Australia
Poverty, social exclusion and disadvantage are complex and persistent. Child social exclusion means lost opportunity, disengagement and the risk of leading lives of unfulfilled potential. Today, at the start of Anti-Poverty Week, UnitingCare Australia in partnership with The University of Canberra’s,…