Category: Australia
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YCW leaders voice AI concerns
Young Christians from Western Sydney have travelled to the NSW Parliament to voice their concerns about how the changing nature of work, especially through the rapid uptake of artificial intelligence, is disproportionately hurting younger workers.
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Labor backs co-op sector growth
The Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) has welcomed the Australian Labor Party’s historic platform commitment to support the co-operative and mutual sector’s ambition to double in size.
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Vale Fr Michael Tate
Once a Labor Senator and Australian ambassador to the Holy See, Fr Michael Tate died in Hobart on 5 June 2026.
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Video: Melbourne YCW Origins 1941
For our next webinar on 14 April, historian Dr Val Noone presents his recent book, “Melbourne YCW Origins 1941” exploring the beginnings of the Young Christian Workers in that city.
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Tributes to Pat Walsh
Tributes are flowing for human rights activist and former YCS chaplain, Pat Walsh, who died in Melbourne on 28 December 2025 after a short battle with cancer.
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Rest in peace, Mgr Frank Marriott
Former Bendigo YCW chaplain, Mgr Frank Marriott died today Sunday 23 November 2025, Feast of Christ the King, and feast day of YCW pioneer, Blessed Miguel Pro.
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One in seven live in poverty: ACOSS
In 2022-23 one in seven people, including one in six children, lived below the poverty line, according to a new report published by the Australian Council of Social Services.
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Ecclesial movements meet
Representatives of 25 ecclesial communities and movements met with Australia’s Catholic bishops in Sydney on 21-22 August to strengthen their relationships and discuss ways to effectively collaborate.
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YCW made Church relevant to people’s lives
“In the many interviews I have conducted, I have always been amazed by how many interviewees have told me they were involved in the YCW movement in their younger days,” writes Jenny Brinkworth.
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Book launch: Melbourne YCW Origins, 1941
You are invited to the launch of a new booklet about the Young Christian Workers in Melbourne.
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YCW women in action: 100 years
YCW Holdings Melbourne is hosting a special luncheon event on Sunday 31 August 2025 to celebrate the contributions women have made to Australian YCW in the past 100 years!
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The 1920 arrest of Archbishop Mannix
In this video, Professor James Franklin of the Australian Catholic Historical Society, recounts the story of Irish-born Melbourne Archbishop Daniel Mannix’s enforced stay in England in 1920.
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Webinar: YCW in Australia today
For our July webinar, ACI is partnering with the Australian YCW for a special YCW Centenary event on Wednesday 23 July 2025 at 7pm AEST.
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Aussie ex-YCW leader elected UISG president
The International Union of Superiors General (UISG) has announced the election of Sr Oonah O’Shea, NDS, as the new President of the Union.
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IYCW World Council, Adelaide 1991
In November-December 1991, the Australian YCW hosted young worker leaders from 40 countries for the 6th World Council of the International YCW. Watch the video here.
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Race Mathews, A life in politics
Race Mathews’s contributions to Australian government and public policy now get the full recognition they have long deserved in Iola Mathews’s splendid biography, Race Mathews: A Life in Politics, writes former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans.
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YCS students speak out
A new video showcases the enthusiasm of Young Christian Students (YCS) leaders at St Columba’s Catholic College, Springwood, New South Wales.
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Share your stories of the YCW Camp
The future of the YCW camp is in doubt. We are building up a picture of the significance of the asset for the Cardijn movements and we’d love to hear from you.
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Perth discerns with the see, judge, act
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB spoke about the see, judge, act methodology during his closing speech at the Archdiocesan Assembly on Saturday 13 July 2024.
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RIP Bishop Kevin Manning
Kevin Manning, the second Bishop of Parramatta, a strong supporter of the YCW and YCS, died peacefully on 15 July 2024, in Bathurst NSW at the age of 90.
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Webinar: Brother Smiddy – This worker life
Shaped by a childhood living with his adoptive dad in a railway guard’s van; formed as a YCW leader; active for decades in the printing industry, union organiser and Labor Party man, Brian Smiddy became a valiant friend of working men and women, and confidant of a Labor Premier.
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Padninthi Indigenous pilgrimage launched
Former Adelaide YCW chaplain, Fr Tom Gleeson, is working with the local Indigenous community in Willinga, SA, to develop a new pilgrimage path known as Padninthi, or “walking together along the Tjilbruke Dreaming Story.”
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Video: Catholic social justice and the Labor Party 1900-1940
At our June ACI webinar, Emeritus Professor James Franklin spoke on “Catholic social justice and the Labor Party 1900-1940” at our next ACI webinar on Tuesday 13 June.
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YCW Centenary History Project
ACI has called for contributors to a new volume of Australian YCW to mark the forthcoming centenary of the movement in 2025.