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QSA Notes: Reflections on the 2021/22 project year: Highlights and priorities
Fleur Bayley | QSA Project Manager, CambodiaQSA is a long-standing partner in the Australian NGO Cooperation Program, the Australian Government’s longest running and largest NGO program. Each year,...
Know Thy Friend: Aletia Dundas
Aletia Dundas Peter Jones, Tasmania Regional MeetingAlthough Aletia has frequently been thought of as a birth right Friend, her parents only joined Wahroonga Meeting after hearing about Quakers on a...
Future Proofing
Sue Parritt, Victoria Regional MeetingMark and I have been making plans together since the late 1960s, when we visited Australia House during our 3-day London honeymoon to apply for assisted...
Such is Life
David Swain, New South Wales Regional MeetingWhen a person possessed of an active mind explores nature, or ponders in imagination the broad range of organic creation, no single one among the...
Book review: The Search For Truth. Information, disinformation and the algorithms of social media
This is the the 2022 Quaker Lecture, Aotearoa/New Zealand Verica Rupar is a professor of journalism at the School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and chair...
Noted
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
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 (Photo by Susan Hill) Peter Jones, Tasmania Regional MeetingAdrian was born in South Wales: his first years were on the Gower Peninsula, near Abertawe (Swansea). This ancient, rural...
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...
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