The Uniting Church in Australia has taken its vehement opposition to the Northern Territory Emergency Response to the United Nations.

The Uniting Church in Australia has today expressed its bitter disappointment over the failure of the Parliament to pass legislation that will support the prompt introduction of a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

The Uniting Church in Australia is the only church formally supporting a Human Rights Act in Australia.

The Uniting Church has today expressed its total dismay at the Federal Government's decision to further delay and weaken the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

The Uniting Church has today called on Australia's political leaders to stop using asylum seekers as political footballs.

The Uniting Church in Australia has today said that although no-one much likes the Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), we need to work together to fix it.

National Director of UnitingJustice Australia, Rev Elenie Poulos, said that critics of the Scheme on both sides needed to put down their weapons and start making a positive contribution for the sake of our future.

The Uniting Church today reaffirmed its support for the Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).

UnitingJustice Australia has today criticised as "woefully inadequate" the Australian Government's target for a 5-15% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Australians will be shocked to learn that most of the rights protections we take for granted every day simply don’t exist. We are the ONLY democratic country in the world without a document formally shielding human rights.

The right to free speech, the right to be treated with dignity and respect, the right not to be held without charge, and the right not to be mentally or physically tortured, or mandatorily detained for an indefinite period, are some of the human rights ignored under our legislative system.

Where is God for those being raped and tortured in the Congo? Where is God for those in the Philippines facing military and government intimidation to accept mining by Australian companies? Where is God for people in Kiribati and Tuvalu who need to relocate to another country because of climate change? Where is God for those being abused, threatened, tormented and killed in Zimbabwe? Where is God for 100,000 Australians sleeping on the streets every night? Where on earth is God?

The answer, said UCA President, Rev Gregor Henderson, is that God is there in the midst of the suffering and God is there in the midst of our work to overcome these human rights abuses.