Editorial

The articles received for this issue of The Australian Friend cluster around the theme of Relationships.  Friends have been writing poetry touching on this theme, and we have articles about relationships with other Quakers at Yearly Meeting and in Geneva. Brendan...

Editorial

In this issue we reflect on our first ever Australia Yearly Meeting by Zoom.  The first reaction seems to be astonishment that it was done at all, and admiration and gratitude for those who arranged it at short notice.  There have been positives in this new...

NSW draft Religious Anti-Discrimination Act.

Wies Schuiringa, New South Wales Regional Meeting[1] Mark Latham, member of the Legislative Council of the NSW Parliament for the One Nation Party has tabled “An Act to amend the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 to make discrimination on the ground of a person’s religious...
Book review: The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War

Book review: The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War

This book, by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, tells the story of Katherine Gun, an employee of Government Communications Headquarters in the UK, who, in 2003, leaked a secret e-mail in the hope that it would prevent an illegal war. She achieved fame by saying “I...

Editorial

It’s been a different couple of months, and this is reflected in a somewhat different Australian Friend.  We have been astounded at the activities that Friends have been able to carry out during the COVID-19 shut-down.  This has led to us all having to do things in...