Jigalong – a place to slow down

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...

QSA Notes: Indigenous projects

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...

Know thy Friend: Anne Brown

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...

Book review: Viking Economics

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...