by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
Judith Pembleton, Editor I am delighted that this issue’s Know One Another features Stephen Hodgkin, whose careful, faithful work supports so many of the endeavours of Quakers In Australia including the distribution of The Australian Friend. I have been reliably...
by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
Ivan Himmelhoch, Victoria Regional Meeting It is always profoundly humbling to visit a person in a hospice at the end stage of their life’s journey. Such encounters have also made me reflect very deeply as to why that shrivelled, yellow-skinned human being before me,...
by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
Brian Harlech-Jones, Canberra Regional Meeting In mid-July 2011, Marie and I arrived in Billiluna to take over as the new managers of Mindibungu Aboriginal Corporation. ‘Billiluna? Where is that?’ ask most people. It’s in the Kimberley region of Western Australia,...
by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
Stephen Hodgkin, Canberra Regional Meeting What are you looking for, Stephen?’ Well, quite a few things make me happy – being with Kay [de Vogel, Stephen’s partner]; helping Australian Quakers and the Australian Capital Territory Greens with their databases and...
by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
Topsy Evans, South Australia Regional Meeting One day in early 2011, a gentleman came to the Quaker Shop to give us a large suitcase of clothes. He explained that his wife had died over six years ago and it had taken him until then to start to sort out her...
by David Swain | 29 Nov, 2011
David Purnell, Canberra Regional Meeting It is 25 years since I first trained as a mediator. Over that time I have done lots more training, and mediated in many hundreds of disputes — involving neighbours, work colleagues, couples, family members, business people,...
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