by David Swain | 1 Sep, 2019
At our Yearly Meeting held in Hobart in July, our main concern was climate heating and the associated species extinctions. Yearly Meeting issued a statement outlining the scale of the problem, things we can do personally to alleviate the problem, and the need to...
by David Swain | 1 Sep, 2019
Kenise Neill, South Auatralia and Northern Territory Regional Meeting In quiet moments since my first Yearly Meeting (2019) I hear the words, “We are earth. What is Earth hearing and feeling?” On the Sunday following our meeting the reading was the story of the Good...
by David Swain | 1 Sep, 2019
Animating Freedom: Accompanying Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination, delivered by by Jason MacLeod This Lecture represents the results of a decade of reflection, practice, reading, conversations and walking. Since Jason’s first visit to West Papua in 1991, his...
by David Swain | 1 Sep, 2019
Peter Jones, Tasmania Regional Meeting Maddy Walker is Tasmanian, although she was born in Canberra when her parents were working there. Like many other Friends, denominationally she came from elsewhere, in this case, a strong Catholic upbringing, but always...
by David Swain | 1 Sep, 2019
Jackie Perkins, QSA Administrator The project partner organisations with whom QSA works and supports are not Quakers, making Quakers unlike our colleagues from the Church Agencies Network who only work with those of their faith-based communities overseas. QSA does not...
by David Swain | 1 Sep, 2019
Aletia Dundas, New South Wales Regional Meeting The Annual face-to-face meeting of the New York Quaker United Nations Office Committee (QUNC) began on 28th March 2019 at the beautiful Quaker House in New York, a 4-story city dwelling with a delightful courtyard out...
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