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• Click here for summary and full text of a recent CSSV paper on counselling in a Catholic agency, delivered to the 2010 Catholic Bioethics Conference, on 25 January 2010. The paper considers counselling in Catholic agencies in the context of the role of the Church in social services, and the features of Catholic social services in Australia. A key finding is that dialogue is needed within agencies and more broadly to ensure that people and processes are in place to maintain a continued focus on mission within Catholic agencies, and particularly in recruitment and in staff formation.
• CSSV prepared Background Notes for politicians who participated in our 2009 Victorian Political Forum, held on 1 December 2009. This statement sets out principles that CSSV ascribes to in public policy analysis, and some of the issues that the Catholic social services community consider are important in Victoria today. Click here for a copy.
• Documents from September/October 2009 CSSA study program to Rome and Leuven
  • An overview of Rome visit
  • Reflections on Catholic social teaching
  • a presentation on 11 Nov 09 to people at the Melbourne Archdiocese
  • Summary notes on Catholic identity
• 'A Catholic Perspective on Social Justice', notes for a presentation to the Unitarian Church of Melbourne, 6 September 2009
• 'Religious exemptions under the Equal Opportunity Act 1995', a submission by CSSV to a review by the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee of the Victorian Parliament (July 2009),
• InterChurch Gambling Taskforce Submission to Productivity Commission enquiry into Gambling (April 2009)
• Reports on three Seminars on Catholic Identity in health, education and social services agencies in the Archdiocese of Melbourne (March 2009). Click for
• seminar 1
• seminar 2
• seminar 3
• 'Economic and financial adjustment'. CSSV article of 17 November 2008
• CSSV Issues Briefing 20 Aug 08
• Submission "Because mental health matters". (August 2008)
• Submission on Homelessness (June 2008)
• Notes on 2008 Victorian Budget (May 2008)
• Submission to 2020 Summit (April 2008)
• Launch of Nuclear Power: cure or curse? (November 2007)
• Nuclear Power - Executive Summary (November 2007)
• Nuclear Power: cure or curse? (November 2007)
• How to reduce our ecological footprint at home (July 2007)
• Women After Prison Report (September 2006)
• CSSV Election pamphlet 2006
• Printer friendly version of Election Pamphlet 2006
• Shattered Dreams (2006)
• Submission _Review of Electronic Gaming Machine Arrangements (2006)
• A Call to Mission - Catholic Agencies and Older Homeless People (2005)
• Spheres of Influence (Conference 2005)
• War On Iraq, is it just? (2003)
• Senate Inquiry into Poverty (2003)
• Surviving not Living (2001)