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A new way of doing things

Summary: Baptcare has commenced its new ‘Gateway’ and ‘Integrated Family Support Services’ in Tasmania. These initiatives represent ‘a new way of doing things’

Date of publication: 15/12/2009

Caring for our neighbours

Summary: The need for Baptcare’s ‘Sanctuary’ asylum seeker project continues to be demonstrated.

Date of publication: 21/09/2009

Strength in diversity

Summary: In these days of specialisation, it is increasingly rare for one agency to viably sustain operations in such diverse endeavours as Commonwealth-regulated aged care and state-regulated child, family and disability services.

Date of publication: 19/06/2009

Compassion in the face of tragedy

Summary: The Baptcare Emergency Bushfire Appeal (run in partnership with the Baptist Union of Victoria) has just closed. Over one million dollars were donated to this appeal. This is a magnificent response. This disaster showed us the very worst of the physical environment. However, it also showed us the best of human nature.

Date of publication: 16/03/2009

Meeting the Needs of Our Elderly

Summary: Over the last six decades, residential aged care has grown to become a mainstream part of social service delivery in Australia. One of the questions regularly put to me is, why does Baptcare retain such a significant interest in residential aged care?

Date of publication: 19/01/2009

A message from the CEO

Summary: My hope is that Baptcare will also be an ‘available’ organisation, that our actions will help bring fullness of life to all who encounter us.

Date of publication: 02/09/2008

Winter message from the CEO

Summary: Baptcare has implemented another two programs to help those who fall between the gaps in our society. Neither program receives government funding. We have begun these works because we are convinced they will address important, un-met needs and we hope to secure the necessary support to continue them into the long term.

Date of publication: 17/03/2008

Giving and receiving at Christmas

Summary: At this time of year, our media channels are saturated with reminders that the Christmas retail season has arrived. Amongst all this commercialism, it was with interest that I recently read the profiles of five people who have dedicated their lives to helping others.

Date of publication: 05/12/2007

Protecting our Christian heritage

Summary: The comment was made to me recently, in a conversation related to another church-based welfare provider, that faith based welfare providers have become mere ‘…subsidiaries of government…’.

Date of publication: 25/05/2007

Government Announces new Aged Care Package

Summary: For some time now, Baptcare has awaited the Federal Government’s response to many of the key recommendations contained in Professor Warren Hogan’s 2004 review of pricing arrangements in aged care. The Prime Minister announced the Government’s final response in mid February 2007, in a package entitled “Securing the Future of Aged Care for Australians”...

Date of publication: 05/04/2007

Proposed Welfare Benefit Changes

Summary: There has been much debate recently over the Federal Government’s proposed changes to the payment of welfare benefits. The most recent proposal is a voucher system to limit the ease with which certain parents can apply those benefits to gambling or to buying junk food, alcohol, cigarettes and drugs...

Date of publication: 01/02/2007

Protecting Those in Our Care

Summary: One of the continuing trends in our society is the declining trust many of us place in institutions that were once held in high regard...

Date of publication: 09/11/2006