General links

  • Australian Student Christian Movement - information about the national movement and SCM branches at other universities across Australia
     
  • A Choice Without Options is No Choice! - a guide to high pressure groups on campus
     
  • ANU Environment Department - the 'Green Guide' on this site is absolutely packed full of information and advice on living sustainably, organisations, campaigns and boycotts, obviously with an environmental focus but extending to some other social issues as well.
     
  • OneWorld Guides - a bunch of interesting and often enlightening articles on issues of human rights and sustainable development. The OneWorld site itself is also a good source of international news and perspectives.
     
  • REVEAL: Leaving the International Church of Christ - a site developed by people who have escaped the church and exist to help others do the same (note: this relates to the "International Church of Christ" as distinct from the "Churches of Christ" who are a more mainline denomination)

Other organisations

  • ForceTen - an excellent organisation and web site promoting socially responsible lifestyles, as well as providing ecumenical support for overseas development aid and education programs
     
  • TEAR Australia - another overseas devolpment aid association, "concentrating on the most marginalised and exploited members of each community regardless of their religious or political beliefs"
     
  • AUSTcare - an Australian support and advocacy group for refugees; also produces education initiatives
     
  • Trade Winds - a not-for-profit group that sells tea and coffee straight from the growers to you, ensuring that the profits go to those who actually do the growing, harvesting and packing rather than the multinationals who rip them off
     
  • Drop the Debt - following Jubilee 2000, the campaign continues to seek the elimination of crippling third world debts owed to wealthy countries and the IMF
     
  • Fair Wear - an organisation that seeks to end clothing companies' exploitation of outworkers, and provides information on which companies are complying