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The Australian Student Christian Movement set up the women's project to address women's position in society, the church and the ASCM. The women's project and the ASCM tackles this in the following ways:
For information about Feminism and Christianity, read more here, or contact the Women's Officer.
In 1992 the Australian Student Christian Movement set up a Men's project as a positive, supportive response to the ASCM Women's project, and therefore to the International Women's movements.
The Men’s Officer is a male who is responsible for raising awareness
about men’s issues
within the ASCM. In particular the Men’s Officer is expected to:
For more information, please contact our Men's Officer.
At the 1997 January General Committee of the ASCM, it was decided to establish an International Solidarity project, which like other projects of the movement, exists to ensure that the issues are raised and acted upon at branch, area council and national levels.
The focus of the project is on the Asia-Pacific region, but issues from other regions may also be picked up. The work of the project includes receiving and disseminating solidarity information from overseas, and sending out reports on what solidarity/ human rights work we are doing here in Australia. It also includes being a hospitality contact person for visiting SCMers from overseas, so that personal solidarity can be built up through visits when they occur.
Leni Valeriano, from SCM Philippines was here, from August 2003, on a one year exchange. She was hosted by the Melbourne SCM, but also travelled to meet and share her experience with SCMers in other parts of the country.
For more information, please contact our National Coordinator.
The Anti-Racism project was established in 1986 to encourage exploration of issues relating to racism in Australia and to support anti-racism campaigns at both branch and national levels.
While focusing primarily on the position of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australian society, it has also encouraged activities relating to multiculturalism and justice for other races within Australia, and dialogue with other SCMs regarding race relations in other countries.
For more information, please contact our National Coordinator.
Rachel represented ASCM at the WSCF Ecological Concern Program in Taiwan in 2001.
In the Asia-Pacific Region, exploitation and destruction of nature has been justified in the name of progress and development. Many countries in the Asia-Pacific have suffered from senseless environmental disasters. The program Rachel attended aimed to provide a forum for the analysis and study of current ecological and environmental issues. To give participants an opportunity to have a deeper understanding of ecology from biblical perspectives. And to inspire participants to become actively involved in eco-friendly practice and education.
Rachel put together a short report (PDF file - 180 Kb) about the program.
For more information, please contact our National Coordinator.
The Queer project was revived in 2004 out of the partnership between Queer Campus Christians and the SCM. Tim Ngui, who founded QCC at Sydney University, is also SCM's Queer Officer.
While continuing the work of the Sexuality project, Queer is also concerned with the breaking down of identity categories such as ‘straight', ‘gay' and ‘lesbian' that tend to put oppressive boundaries on who we are.
The Queer project is not currently active but if you are interested in being part of this project, please contact our acting Queer/Sexuality Project Officer.