Venue: Candara Room and Glass Covered Terrace at Rydges Hotel
Speaker: Michael Austin and Roseanne Plunkett, CatholicCare Wollongong
Topic: "A heart that sees … and responds"
Dress: Business attire
RSVP: Friday 21 February, 2020
As part of the diocese’s local inter-agency emergency response to the recent bushfires in our region, our social services arm, CatholicCare, has been on the ground helping people as they deal with the immediate aftershock of the fires and will continue to be there as these people rebuild their lives in the medium and long term.
Bishop Brian has invited CatholicCare’s Director Michael Austin and Executive Manager Rosanne Plunkett to be the guest speakers at the next CBC luncheon to be held on Friday 28 February. They will speak on a “A heart that sees … and responds”.
To RSVP for the February 2020 luncheon, you will firstly need to become a CBC member or renew your CBC membership. The RSVP process is included in the membership application:
Michael has been the director of CatholicCare Wollongong since 2014. He is the current chair of Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) NSW/ACT and an elected board member of CSSA, the Catholic Church’s peak national social services body. He is also highly sought after as a presenter at national sector conferences.
Up until recently Michael was board chair of Family Relationship Services Australia.
He has also served as vice chair of the Institute of Counselling, as a member of the Advisory Board of the Bachelor of Counselling and Behavioural Science at the University of Notre Dame, and was a member of the Sydney Archdiocesan Catholic Schools Board.
Prior to 2014, Michael worked at CatholicCare Sydney for 21 years in practitioner, management and senior executive roles, in the public hospital system, with the Department of Defence, and in the United Kingdom with Westminster Social Services.
Michael is a passionate social worker with over 30 years of experience. He studied his undergraduate and post graduate studies in Social Work at the University of NSW, majoring in couple and family therapy.
Roseanne Plunkett
After gaining 10 years of experience as an educator, coordinator and manager in the Marriage Relationship and the School Student and Family Programs at CatholicCare Wollongong, Roseanne was appointed Executive Manager for Family Services in 2017.
Today Rosanne oversees six distinct programs: The School Student and Family Program, The Families and Communities Program, Juvenile Justice Chaplaincy at Reiby Youth Justice Centre, The Pastoral Support Program in Schools, ParentsNext and the Children’s Contact Service.
A passionate advocate for supporting the needs of young people, Roseanne has presented at State and National conferences and has previously worked as an educator in both the state and Catholic school systems.
Roseanne attended the University of Wollongong (UOW) where she attained a Bachelor of Arts and Graduate Diploma, holds a Post Graduate Diploma from the Australian Catholic University and recently completed the Leadership Illawarra Program through the Sydney Business School at UOW.
Catholic Business Connections (CBC) is an opportunity for business women and men in our diocese (active and retired) who share common values, to network and engage with each other and leaders representing the diocese. CBC gathers four times a year for lunch and to listen to guest speakers chosen to inspire with their unique story and share how they relate their work and spiritual life experience to the context of living in a modern world.
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Account means the account held at your financial institution from which we are authorised to arrange for funds to be debited.
Agreement means this Direct Debit Request Service Agreement between you and us, including the direct debit request.
Business day means a day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a listed public holiday.
Debit day means the day that payment is due.
Debit payment means a particular transaction where a debit is made, according to your direct debit request.
Direct debit request means the Direct Debit Request between us and you.
Us and we and our means the Catholic Development Fund.
You means the customer(s) who signed the direct debit request. Your financial institution is the financial institution where you hold the account that you have authorised us to arrange to debit.
Debiting your account
By submitting a direct debit request, you have authorised us to arrange for funds to be debited from your account according to the agreement we have with you.
We will only arrange for funds to be debited from your account:
As authorised in the direct debit request; if the debit day falls on a day that is not a business day, we may direct your financial institution to debit your account on the following or previous business day. If you are unsure about which day your account has or will be debited, please check with your financial
Changes by you
If you wish to stop or defer a debit payment you must write to us at least 5 business days before the next debit day.
This notice should be given to us in the first instance.
Your obligations
It is your responsibility to ensure that there are sufficient clear funds available in your account to allow a debit payment to be made.
If there are insufficient clear funds available in your account to meet a debit payment:
you or your account may be charged a fee and/or interest by your financial institution;
you or your account may be charged a fee to reimburse us for charges we have incurred for the failed transaction;
you must arrange for the payment to be made by another method
Please check your account statement to verify that the amounts debited from your account are correct.
Dispute
If you believe that there has been an error in debiting your account you should call us on 1800 047 703 and confirm the details in writing with us as soon as possible so that we can resolve your query quickly.
Accounts
You should check:
with your financial institution whether direct debiting is available from your accounts offered by financial
your account details which you have provided to us are correct by checking them against a recent account statement; and
with your financial institution before completing the direct debit request if you have any queries about how to complete the direct debit
Warning: if the account number you have quoted is incorrect, you may be charged a fee to reimburse our costs in correcting any deductions from:
an account you do not have authority to operate; or
an account you do not
Confidentiality
We will keep any information (including your account details) in your direct debit request confidential.
We will make reasonable efforts to keep any such information that we have about you secure and to ensure that any of our employees or agents who have access to information about you, do not make any unauthorised use, modification, reproduction or disclosure of that information.
However, we may use your contact details to provide information about the fund. Should you wish this not to be the case, please advise the fund in writing.
Our diocesan logo is theologically rich and very succinct. As a hand, it depicts our mission as a diocese and as individuals within the diocese, of bearing (bringing, carrying) Christ’s love to one another and to the world around us. In this, we are the hand of Jesus Christ, and we are offering ourselves to him so that he might work through us.
We can be the bearers of his love only as a response to his call and in the strength of his grace. We are reminded of this in two ways—through the symbol of the dove (the Holy Spirit) also present in the logo, and by the incorporation of the cross that segments the logo. The presence of the cross is a reminder that bearing the love of Christ will inevitably cost us if we live it authentically. However, in the way that the Cross is the portent of redemption and life—an echo of the tree of life in the book of Genesis—so becoming bearers of the love of Christ will also bring us to life.
The four fingers of the hand also represent the four regions of our diocese. The first is bluerepresenting the beautiful water of the Shoalhaven. The second is a blue and green combination representing the waters and escarpment of the Illawarra. The third is greendepicting the hills and plains of the Macarthur. The fourth is dark green illustrating the forests of the Southern Highlands.
