The Australian Friend
Journal of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia
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The Australian Friend is the official journal of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia Inc. It has been continuously published since 1887. There are four issues per year, in March, June, September and December.
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Editorial
Recently I attended the funeral of Jean Talbot, for many years the anonymous poetry editor of The Australian Friend. Towards the end of the service we sang a hymn which I was familiar with, but had...
Hope for Asylum Seekers
Jill Parris, Victoria Regional Meeting About four years ago I had a nudge to do something about refugees with Quakers, so called a meeting to hold the issue in the light....
Refugee Support: Keeping Connected, Sustaining Hope
Dorothy Scott, Victoria Regional MeetingAustralian Friends are involved in refugee advocacy and support in many ways and through many organisations. One example is the small, Canberra-based,...
Direct recruitment from refugee camps: Global workforce an addition to humanitarian aid
David Evans, South Australia and Northern Territory Regional MeetingIn 2019 a little-known visa project brought highly skilled refugees to Australia. Five refugees and their families have arrived in...
Quaker Values Committee of The Friends’ School
Quaker Values Committee[i] The Quaker Values Committee (QVC) is comprised of Friends representing the various Regional Meetings in Australia and the Yearly Meeting Clerk. The...
Practising a New Covenant Life in an Old Covenant World
David Johnson, Queensland Regional Meeting George Fox and the first Friends had a vivid appreciation of the difference between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, not...
Know thy Friend: Adrian Glamorgan
Adrian Glamorgan Peter Jones, Tasmania Regional MeetingAdrian was born in South Wales: his first years were on the Gower Peninsula, near Abertawe (Swansea). This ancient, rural and officially...
QSA Notes: Evaluations: Essential to understanding the real impact of our projects
Fleur Bayley, QSA Project Manager, CambodiaWomen participating in an evaluation focus group in Pursat, 2021. SOURCE: DWAPEvaluations are a crucial feature of QSA’s project management, providing a...
A Story to Tell: The kindness of strangers
Michael and Inga Inga Tolley, South Australia and Northern Territory Regional MeetingAn Introduction Topsy Evans has supplied this introduction to Inga’s article. Inga and Michael Tolley were...
Intervisitation holds us together: A reflection for World Quaker Day
Tim Gee, General Secretary, Friends World Committee for Consultation My understanding of a Quaker approach to life is that we seek to live in the spirit of the earliest followers of Christ, in...
Reflections about the VRM Pod set up for Yearly Meeting 2022
Maxine Cooper, Victoria Regional Meeting--,The F/friends who were interested and available to set up an AYM Victoria Regional Meeting Pod at 484 Williams St, West Melbourne, were initially pleased...
Book Review: In Putin’s Footsteps
Nina Krushcheva and Jeffrey Tayler write that the key to understanding Russia`s geopolitics, its people and its leaders, are the nation`s faith and giant territory. With respect to the former, when...
On “Holding the Meeting in the Light”
Rae Litting, New South Wales Regional MeetingI am grateful to have been part of the eldering team at Yearly Meeting. The dedication of the eldering team impressed me greatly. They put enormous...
Book Review: Ideas To Save your Life. Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure
Many people think that philosophy is about a fixed subject matter like physics, but it is nothing like that. Michael McGirr, early in the book, writes that philosophy is a carnival of ideas,...
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This is our regular feature in which we briefly record interesting publications and websites that have come to our attention. Inclusion of an item in this format does not preclude a possible longer...
Editorial
We are told that in our spoken ministry we should not be political, but from the beginnings Quakers have not been afraid to become involved in politics if that was needed to further moral and...