by australianfriend | 16 Feb, 2012
By Valerie Joy, Queensland Regional Meeting, FWCC/AWPS secretary. The world has changed remarkably since the Fifth World Conference of Friends in 1991, both for good and for ill. The 6th World Conference to be held this year has as part of its theme Friends...
by australianfriend | 15 Feb, 2012
Robert Howell, New Zealand Yearly Meeting. A New Zealand Friend wished me well in a new exciting chapter of my life when he heard of my appointment to work with the Peace and Earthcare Committees in providing a Quaker voice in Canberra. But last December was not...
by australianfriend | 14 Feb, 2012
Virginia Jealous, West Australia Regional Meeting. Dear Friends, I’d like to share some of my recent experience of Quaker community in cyberspace. This started as an attempt to keep up the spiritual momentum after a visit to Silver Wattle, and to...
by australianfriend | 14 Feb, 2012
Cathy Davies, New South Wales Regional Meeting. In November the Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery : Friends in Stitches met in Silver Wattle for our annual workshop. Since then we met again in Perth at Australian Yearly Meeting. Patricia Wood, the co-ordinator of...
by David Swain | 14 Feb, 2012
Sue Reynolds, Aotearoa/New Zealand Yearly Meeting My first impressions of Western Australia were the warmth of our welcome by the local people and Quaker F/friends. On our arrival at Perth airport we were met by an elderly Aboriginal woman with 2 enormous suitcases...
by australianfriend | 14 Feb, 2012
Wilma Davidson, Canberra Regional Meeting. By the time you read this you would have received the minutes of YM and had access to DIA. You will know about decisions made and reports accepted. You may have read the Backhouse Lecture and State of the Art Address. You may...
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