A dozen Filipino carpenters recruited to work in Christchurch’s rebuild had no work when they arrived and had to call on a Catholic advocate to get by. Recruitment and labour hire company Adecco promised fulltime jobs to the group. When they arrived on July 10, there was no work for them. Adecco, acting as the Read more
Jim Consedine’s article “With Joy- Filled Hearts”, recently won the Australasian Religious Press Association’s Gold award for the best story on Social Justice. The article was about the trial of the Waihopai Three, priest Peter Murnane, teacher Adrian Leason and farmer Sam Land who had broken in to the Waihopai spy base in 2008 and slashed Read more