Your guide to all the best online links for social and ethical issues.

May 2004

This list is provided by the Social Issues Committee of the Baptist Churches of NSW & ACT. Please note carefully that listing does not imply endorsement of organisations or content on these websites and mailing lists. All links were active on 26 May 2004. Some sites are listed in more than one category. To obtain the latest edition of the list by email (so you can simply point and click), to report inactive links, or to suggest additional websites, contact the editor, Rod Benson, at

Index

.Churches’ social issues sites – Australia .Churches’ social issues sites – international .Environment .Ethics .Family, sexuality and gender .Government .Health and bioethics .Human rights and law .Indigenous issues .Mailing lists (email)

.Media .Political parties – Australia .Popular culture .Poverty, wealth and work .United Nations .Violence, war and peace .Other issues/agencies

Churches’ social issues sites – Australia

Anglican Church (Sydney Diocese) Social Issues http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/socialissues

Australian Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs http://www.acmica.org/

Australian Catholic Social Justice Council http://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/

Baptist Churches of NSW & ACT (Social Issues)

http://baptistnsw.asn.au/ministry/socialissues

Baptist Churches of NSW & ACT Social Issues Committee http://www.baptistsocialissues.org.au/

Catholic Welfare Australia http://www.catholicwelfare.com.au/index.htm

Lutheran Church of Australia Peace Resource Page http://www.lca.org.au/peace.htm

Salvation Army (Eastern Australian Territory) Services http://salvos.org.au/SALVOS/NEW/me.get?site.home (then select the “services” menu)

Uniting Church Board of Social Responsibility http://www.unitingcarenswact.org.au/

Churches’ social issues sites – international

Baptist World Alliance http://www.bwanet.org/

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – Social Statements http://www.elca.org/socialstatements/

Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/justpeace/index.ht m

Environment

Action Without Borders http://www.idealist.org/

Australian Conservation Foundation http://www.acfonline.org.au/

Clean Up Australia http://www.cleanup.com.au/

EarthAction http://www.earthaction.org/

Earth Charter http://www.earthcharter.org

EcoNet http://www.igc.org/home/econet/index.html

Environment Australia http://www.erin.gov.au/

Environment portal (Australian government)

http://www.environment.gov.au/index.html

Environmental News Service http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/ensaustralia/

Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/

Interfaith Climate Change Network http://www.protectingcreation.org/

Landcare Australia http://www.landcareaustralia.com.au/

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service http://www.npws.nsw.gov.au/

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service – Nature and Conservation http://www.npws.nsw.gov.au/wildlife/

Oz Guide – environment http://www.journoz.com/env.html

Wilderness Society (Australia)

http://www.wilderness.org.au/

Worldwatch Institute http://www.worldwatch.org/

Ethics

Animal Rights http://www.animalsaustralia.org/

Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/aapae/

Center for Applied Christian Ethics (Wheaton College)

http://www.wheaton.edu/CACE/

Centre for Applied Christian Ethics (Ridley College)

http://www.ridley.unimelb.edu.au/cace/

London Institute for Contemporary Christianity http://www.licc.org.uk/

St James Ethics Centre http://www.ethics.org.au/

See also Human rights and law

Family, sexuality and gender

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse http://www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/

Australian Federation of Right to Life Organisations http://www.righttolife.asn.au

Australian Institute of Family Studies http://www.aifs.org.au/

FaithTrust Institute (sexual and domestic violence)

http://www.faithtrustinstitute.org/

Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre http://www.dvirc.org.au/

Drug Proof Your Kids http://www.drugproofingkids.com/2/

Elliot Institute http://www.afterabortion.org/

Festival of Light http://www.fol.org.au/

Focus on the Family (USA)

http://www.family.org/

Focus on the Family (Australia)

http://www.families.org.au/

Global Movement for Children http://www.gmfc.org/index.html

LoveMatters (on dating and sex)

http://www.lovematters.com/

NSW Right to Life Association http://www.nswrtl.org.au/

OZ Guide – social issues http://www.journoz.com/social.html

Sex Discrimination Commission http://www.hreoc.gov.au/sex_discrimination/

Society for the Protection of Unborn Children http://www.spuc.org.uk

WomensNet http://www.igc.org/home/womensnet/index.html

Government

Australia and the UN http://www.dfat.gov.au/un/index.html

Australian Commonwealth Government http://www.fed.gov.au/KSP/

Australian Electoral Commission http://www.aec.gov.au

Australian Government On-line Directory http://gold.gov.au/

Australian Local Government Association http://www.alga.com.au/

Hansard (Commonwealth Government)

http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/

NSW Government http://www.nsw.gov.au/

Ombudsman (Commonwealth)

http://www.comb.gov.au/

Ombudsman (NSW)

http://www.nswombudsman.nsw.gov.au/

Political Lobby http://www.lobby.org.au/p-lobby/

Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman http://www.tio.com.au/

Health and bioethics

Alcoholics Anonymous http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org/

Alcoholics Anonymous Australia http://www.alcoholicsanonymous.org.au/

Australasian Bioethics Information http://www.australasianbioethics.org

Australian Drug Information Network http://www.adin.com.au/

Australian Medical Association http://www.ama.com.au/

Australian Psychological Society – Social Issues http://www.psychsociety.com.au/news/social_issues/

Biotechnology Australia http://www.biotechnology.gov.au/

British Medical Journal http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/

Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity http://www.cbhd.org/

Christian Medical Fellowship (UK)

http://www.cmf.org.ok

Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship (Australia)

http://www.cmdfa.org.au

Disability Council of NSW http://www.discoun.nsw.gov.au/

Disability Rights http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/index.html

Do No Harm (stem cell research)

http://www.stemcellresearch.org/

Doctors Reform Society of Australia http://www.drs.org.au/

Drugs (information on alcohol, tobacco and other drugs)

http://www.health.gov.au/pubhlth/strateg/drugs/index.htm

Euthanasia.com http://www.euthanasia.com/

Extropy Institute (transhumanism)

http://extropy.org

Gamblers Anonymous Australia http://www.gamblersanonymous.org.au/

Lancet, The http://www.thelancet.com/

Medical Journal of Australia http://www.mja.com.au/

Narcotics Anonymous http://www.na.org.au/

National Aged Care Alliance http://www.naca.asn.au/

National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre http://ndarc.med.unsw.edu.au/

National Health and Medical Research Council http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/index.htm

National Occupational Health and Safety Commission http://www.nohsc.gov.au/

Prolife America http://www.prolife.com/

Reachout (suicide prevention)

http://www.reachout.asn.au

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons http://www.racs.edu.au/

Therapeutic Goods Administration http://www.tga.gov.au/

Ultimate Prolife Resource List http://www.prolifeinfo.org/

UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp

US Department of Health and Human Services http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

WorkCover ACT http://www.workcover.act.gov.au/

WorkCover NSW http://www.workcover.nsw.gov.au/default.htm

World Health Organization http://www.who.int/en/

Youth Health (Australian Medical Association)

http://www.ama.com.au/youth/

Human rights & law

ABC Human Rights http://www.abc.net.au/civics/rights/default.htm

ACT Legislation Database http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/

Alliance of Baptists http://www.allianceofbaptists.org/

Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/

Amnesty International (Australia)

http://www.amnesty.org.au/

Animal Rights http://www.animalsaustralia.org/

AntiRacismNet http://www.antiracismnet.org/main.html

AUSTLII (all existing Australian federal legislation)

http://www.austlii.edu.au/databases.html#cth

Australian Dept of Foreign Affairs & Trade – Human rights http://www.dfat.gov.au/hr/ Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission http://www.humanrights.gov.au/

Australian Human Rights Centre http://www.ahrcentre.org/

Australian Law Reform Commission http://www.alrc.gov.au/

Australian Parliament – Bills (past and upcoming)

http://www.aph.gov.au/bills/

Australian Psychological Society – Social Issues http://www.psychsociety.com.au/news/social_issues/

Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs http://www.bjcpa.org/

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors http://www.objector.org/

Communications Law Centre http://www.comslaw.org.au

Disability Rights http://www.hreoc.gov.au/disability_rights/index.html

East Timor Action Network http://www.etan.org/

Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance http://www.e-alliance.ch/

Evatt Foundation http://evatt.labor.net.au/

Federal Privacy Commissioner http://www.privacy.gov.au/

Human Rights http://www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights/index.html

Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/

International Association for Religious Freedom http://www.iarf-religiousfreedom.net/

International Committee of the Red Cross http://www.icrc.org/

Int’l Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies http://www.ifrc.org/

Jesuit Refugee Service http://www.uniya.org.au/refugee.htm

Law Stuff (children’s rights)

http://www.lawstuff.org.au/

Lawlink http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/

Menzies Research Centre http://www.mrcltd.org.au/

NSW Anti-Discrimination Board http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/adb

NSW Law Reform Commission http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/nswlrc.nsf/pages/index

NSW Legislation Database http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/

Oz Guide – aid http://www.journoz.com/aid.html

Oz Guide – human rights http://www.journoz.com/human.html

Oz Guide – immigration http://www.journoz.com/immi.html

Oz Guide – law & legislation http://www.journoz.com/law.html

Privacy International http://www.privacyinternational.org/

Privacy NSW http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/pc.nsf/

Racial Discrimination http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/index.html

Refugee Council of Australia http://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/

Save the Children http://www.oneworld.org/scf/

Sex Discrimination Commission http://www.hreoc.gov.au/sex_discrimination/

Tolerance.org http://www.tolerance.org/

UN High Commission for Refugees http://www.unhcr.ch

WEA Religious Liberty Commission http://www.worldevangelical.org/rlc.html

WEA Religious Liberty Commission (Australia)

http://www.evangelicalalliance.org.au/rlc/

Indigenous issues

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission http://www.atsic.gov.au/

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Information http://www.journoz.com/abor.html

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice http://www.hreoc.gov.au/social_justice/index.html

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/car/

NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs http://www.daa.nsw.gov.au/

Racial Discrimination http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/index.html

Reconciliation Australia http://www.reconciliationaustralia.org/

Mailing Lists (email)

BioEdge (Australasian Bioethics Information)

http://www.australasianbioethics.org/

Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (PBS, USA)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/email.html

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin (WEF, Australia)

Contact

Social Issues Briefing (Anglican Diocese of Sydney)

Contact

Media

ABC (The Common Good)

http://www.abc.net.au/civics/

ABC Radio National http://www.abc.net.au/rn/

Age, The http://www.theage.com.au/

Alternet http://www.alternet.org/

Atlantic Monthly, The http://www.theatlantic.com/

Australian, The http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/

Australian Broadcasting Authority http://www.aba.gov.au/

Australian Financial Review http://afr.com/

Australian News Network (News Corp)

http://www.news.com.au/

Australian Newspapers Online http://www.nla.gov.au/npapers/

Australian Press Council http://www.presscouncil.org.au/

BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/home/today/

British Medical Journal (search)

http://bmj.com/all.shtml

Canberra Times, The http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/home.asp

Choice (Australian Consumers Association)

http://www.choice.com.au/

CNN http://www.cnn.com/

Communications Law Centre http://www.comslaw.org.au

Economist, The http://www.economist.com/

Fairfax Community Newspapers http://fcnonline.com.au/main.asp

First Things (Journal of Religion and Public Life)

http://www.firstthings.com/

Guardian, The http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Illawarra Mercury, The http://illawarramercury.com/

Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance http://www.alliance.org.au/ (see Hot Topics)

Mediawatch (US)

http://www.mediawatch.com/

Mediawatch (ABC TV)

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/

Medical Journal of Australia http://www.mja.com.au

MSNBC http://www.msnbc.com/news/

Newcastle Herald, The http://www.nnp.com.au/

NewsHub http://www.newshub.com/

Nine Network http://ninemsn.com.au/homepage.asp

Newsweek http://www.msnbc.com/news/NW-front_Front.asp

New York Times, The http://www.nytimes.com/

New Yorker, The http://www.newyorker.com/

Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC)

http://www.oflc.gov.au/content.html

OFLC Public Submissions http://www.oflc.gov.au/content.html?n=167&p=120

Online Opinion http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/

OZ Guide – index http://www.journoz.com/

Oz Guide – media ethics http://www.journoz.com/ethics.html

OZ Guide – social issues http://www.journoz.com/social.html

Pacific News Service http://news.pacificnews.org/news/

SBS http://www.sbs.com.au/sbs_front/index.html

Seven Network http://seven.com.au/

Sydney Morning Herald, The http://www.smh.com.au/

Ten Network http://www.ten.com.au/

Time http://www.time.com/time/

Times, The (London)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

West Australian, The http://www.thewest.com.au/

Zadok Papers http://www.zadok.org.au/papers/

Zadok Perspectives http://www.zadok.org.au/perspectives/

Political parties – Australia

Australian Labor Party http://www.alp.org.au

Australian Democrats http://www.democrats.org.au

Australian Greens http://www.greens.org.au

Christian Democratic Party http://www.christiandemocratic.org.au/

Liberal Party of Australia http://www.liberal.org.au/

National Party http://www.nationals.org.au/

One Nation Party http://www.onenation.net.au/

Popular culture

Center for the Study of Popular Culture http://www.cspc.org/about2.html

Chiaroscuro (spirituality in the cinema)

http://www.chiafilm.com/

HollywoodJesus (popular culture reviews)

http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/

Images Journal http://www.imagesjournal.com/

Journal of Religion and Film http://www.unomaha.edu/~wwwjrf/

Plugged In (youth culture reviews)

http://www.pluggedinonline.com/

Screen It! (entertainment reviews)

http://www.screenit.com/

Shootthemessenger http://www.shootthemessenger.com.au/

USA Today movies http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/front.htm

Poverty, wealth and work

Alternatives for Simple Living http://www.simpleliving.org/

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI)

http://www.acci.asn.au

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)

http://www.accc.gov.au/

Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS)

http://www.acoss.org.au/

Australian Industrial relations Commission http://www.airc.gov.au/

Baptist World Aid Australia http://shareanopportunity.org/

Bread for the World http://www.bread.org/

Carter Center http://www.cartercenter.org/

Clean Clothes Campaign (working conditions in garment industry)

http://www.cleanclothes.org/

Compassion International http://www.compassion.org.au/

Fair Wear Campaign http://www.awatw.org.au/fairwear

Guide to Ending Sweatshops http://www.sweatshops.org/

Habitat for Humanity http://www.habitat.org/

H.R. Nicholls Society http://www.hrnicholls.com.au/

Institute for Private Enterprise http://www.ipe.net.au/ipeframeset.htm

Institute of Public Affairs http://www.ipa.org.au

Inter-church Trade and Industry Commission (ITIC)

http://www.itim.com.au/

International Labour Organisation http://www.ilo.org/

Franciscans International http://www.franciscansinternational.org/

Hunger Site http://www.thehungersite.com/

Melbourne Institute http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/

Micah Challenge http://www.micahchallenge.org/home/intro.asp

Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC)

http://www.oflc.gov.au/content.html

Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org/

Oz Guide – industrial relations http://www.journoz.com/indrel.html

Reserve Bank of Australia http://www.rba.gov.au/

Tear Australia http://www.tear.org.au

United Nations Development Program http://www.undp.org

World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/

World Economic Forum http://www.weforum.org/

World Vision International http://www.wvi.org/

United Nations

Australia and the UN http://www.dfat.gov.au/un/index.html

UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp

UN Development Program http://www.undp.org

UNESCO (Educational, Scientific & Cultural Org.)

http://www.unesco.org

UN High Commission for Refugees http://www.unhcr.ch

UNICEF (UN Children’s Fund)

http://www.unicef.org

Violence, war and peace

Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand http://www.anabaptist.asn.au/

Antiwar.com http://www.antiwar.com/

Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse http://www.austdvclearinghouse.unsw.edu.au/

Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America http://www.bpfna.org/

Bruderhof Communities http://www.bruderhof.com/us/index.htm

Bullying. No Way! http://www.bullyingnoway.com.au/

Campaign Against the Arms Trade http://www.caat.org.uk/

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors http://www.objector.org/

Domestic Violence and Incest Resource Centre http://www.dvirc.org.au/

Environmentalists Against War http://www.envirosagainstwar.org/

Fellowship of Reconciliation http://www.forusa.org/

HateWatch http://www.splcenter.org/intel/hatewatch/

Institute for Global Communications http://www.igc.org/

International Action Network on Small Arms http://www.iansa.org/

International Campaign to Ban Landmines http://www.icbl.org/

International Crisis Group http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm

International Peace Bureau http://www.ipb.org

Lion and Lamb Project (marketing of violence to children)

http://www.lionlamb.org/

Nonviolence.org http://www.nonviolence.org/

Orthodox Peace Fellowship http://www.incommunion.org/

PaxChristi Australia (Catholic Peace Movement)

http://www.paxchristi.org.au/

PaxChristi USA (Catholic Peace Movement)

http://www.paxchristiusa.org/

Peace and Justice Support Network (Mennonite USA)

http://peace.mennolink.org/

PeaceNet http://www.igc.org/home/peacenet/index.html

Project Ploughshares http://www.ploughshares.ca/

Racial Discrimination http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/index.html

Urban Seed http://www.urbanseed.org/

Victims of Crime Support Groups http://www.aic.gov.au/links/victims.html

WarChild http://www.warchild.org/

WCC Decade to Overcome Violence http://www2.wcc-coe.org/dov

Other issues/agencies

Active Sydney http://active.org.au/sydney/

Alliance of Baptists http://www.allianceofbaptists.org/

Alternatives for Simple Living http://www.simpleliving.org/

Australian Bureau of Statistics http://www.abs.gov.au/

Australian Christian Lobby http://www.acl.org.au/home/index.stw

Australian Council of Trade Unions http://www.actu.asn.au

Australian Institute of Criminology http://www.aic.gov.au/

Australian Law Reform Commission http://www.alrc.gov.au/

Australian Libertarian Society http://www.libertarian.org.au/index.jsp

Baptists Today http://www.baptiststoday.com/

Brisbane Institute http://www.brisinst.org.au/

Catholic Worker Movement http://www.catholicworker.org/

Center of Concern http://www.coc.org/

Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education http://www.case.edu.au/

Centre for Independent Studies http://www.cis.org.au/

Dialogue Australasia (Religious and Values Education)

http://www.dialogueaustralasia.org/

Ecclesia Project http://www.ekklesiaproject.org

Edmund Rice Centre http://www.erc.org.au/

European Union http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm

Evatt Foundation http://evatt.labor.net.au/

Fabian Society http://www.fabian.org.au/

Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia http://www.fecca.org.au/

Freedom Directory – Atlas Economic Research Foundation http://www.atlasusa.org/directory/

Good Shepherd Social Justice Network http://www.goodshepherd.com.au/justice/

Independent Commission Against Corruption http://www.icac.nsw.gov.au/

Jesuit Social Justice Centre http://www.uniya.org/

John Pilger http://www.johnpilger.com

Lobby.org http://www.lobby.org.au/

Melbourne Institute http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/

Menzies Research Centre http://www.mrcltd.org.au/

Micah Challenge http://www.micahchallenge.org/home/intro.asp

Micah Network http://www.micahnetwork.org/home/

National Center for Policy Analysis (USA)

http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/index.php

National Council of Churches in Australia http://www.ncca.org.au/

National Farmers Federation http://www.nff.org.au/

Noam Chomsky http://monkeyfist.com/ChomskyArchive

NSW Council of Churches http://www.nswchurches.com/

NSW Teachers Federation http://www.nswtf.org.au/

OneWorld http://www.oneworld.net/

Phone directories http://www.journoz.com/basic.html#dirs

Privacy International http://www.privacyinternational.org/

Productivity Commission http://www.pc.gov.au/

Restorative Justice links http://www.aic.gov.au/rjustice/links.html

Sisters of Charity http://www.stvincents.com.au

Sojourners http://www.sojo.net/

Telephone directories http://www.journoz.com/basic.html#dirs

Whistleblowers Australia http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/contacts/au_wba/

Zadok Institute http://www.zadok.org.au