How AVP works with very different groups of people

by | 4 Dec, 2016

Valerie Joy,  Queensland Regional Meeting Many Friends are familiar with the Alternatives to Violence Project, which has proven its effectiveness in prisons, primary and secondary schools, community groups, universities and TAFES. In Brisbane, facilitators have...

Notice of Annual General Meeting

by | 4 Dec, 2016

  The AGM of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia Inc. will be held at 9.30am on Sunday, 5 February 2017, at Mt Lawley Recognised Meeting, 35 Clifton Crescent, Mt Lawley, Perth.   Details: 9.30am  AGM 11.00am Meeting for Worship 12.30pm...

QSA Notes – Peacebuilding

by | 4 Dec, 2016

Jackie Perkins, QSA Administrator For development work in Australia, and around the world, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form the main guidelines. Agreed to by all 193 members of the United Nations in 2015, the SDGs aim to achieve peace, prosperity and...

Who are these Knitting Nannas Against Gas?

by | 4 Dec, 2016

Heather Saville, New South Wales Regional Meeting Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG) was established in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales in June 2012, in response to a growing awareness of the exploration for unconventionally mined gas in our prime...

Quaker Grannies at Pine Gap

by | 4 Dec, 2016

Jo Vallentine, Western Australia Regional Meeting Quaker Grannies made quite an impact in Alice Springs/Pine Gap last month. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of Pine Gap, a military war-making spy base in the living heart of our country,...

Film review:  War on Trial

by | 4 Dec, 2016

On October 20th 2016, at Devonshire St Meeting House, the NSW Quaker Peace and Justice Committee hosted a screening of several peace related films. One of these was War on Trial  directed by David Bradbury. War on Trial premiered at Australia Yearly Meeting 2016. This...