by David Swain | 6 Mar, 2017
Therese Douglas, New South Wales Regional Meeting I have a pair of Dunlop thongs stained with red earth from a visit to Jigalong four years ago. They are not particularly attractive but are very durable. And maybe that sums up the life of the Martu people who have...
by David Swain | 6 Mar, 2017
Jackie Perkins, QSA Administrator Although not as numerous as projects supported overseas, QSA continues, as it has from its inception, to work with Australian Indigenous projects in many states of Australia. Since QSA moved to Sydney, support from its Aboriginal...
by David Swain | 6 Mar, 2017
Interviewed by Pamela Leach for the Australian Friend AF: Anne, tell us something of your background. AB: I was born and raised in Melbourne and have lived in Melbourne and various parts of rural Victoria for most of my life. In the 1960s we spent four years in Papua...
by David Swain | 6 Mar, 2017
Katherine Purnell, Tasmania Regional Meeting Professor David Tacey, the 2016 annual Tasmanian Peace Trust lecturer, grew up in culturally divided Alice Springs. He felt that “the consciousness of Aboriginal people was closer to the divine than that of my own...
by David Swain | 6 Mar, 2017
I bought this book after going to a talk given by the author, Frank Brennan. I was impressed by his concern for Aboriginal people and culture, and by his knowledge of the Constitution. He stressed in his talk that the Australian Constitution is a legal document...
by David Swain | 6 Mar, 2017
The sub-title of the book – How the Scandinavians got it right, and how we can too – illustrates the positive intent of the author. George Lakey, a Quaker for many years and a veteran of such groups as the Movement for a New Society (in Philadelphia, USA), focuses on...
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