by australianfriend | 1 Sep, 2024
Editorial Almost from the start of the Society of Friends, Quakers have been noted for social work in the community after Spirit-led discernment. This edition of The Australian Friend contains reports of continuing community work and witness, and items on the...
by David Purnell | 1 Sep, 2024
Resolving Conflict: Reflections David Purnell, Canberra and Region Quakers This article arose from a Share and Tell session at YM 2024 in Adelaide, where over 20 people joined me in a talk and discussion on ways of resolving conflict. In my early years I was...
by Dorothy Scott | 1 Sep, 2024
Supporting the Afghan families of Australia’s offshore Refugees Dorothy Scott, Victoria Regional Meeting In 2019, refugee advocate and volunteer Jan Trewhella established ‘Our Afghan Families’ to provide basic necessities to the families still in Afghanistan of those...
by Roger Sawkins | 1 Sep, 2024
Gender, sex and me – a memoire Roger Sawkins, Queensland Regional Meeting I first became aware of gender as a child. I can date it fairly accurately because at the age of eleven I transferred from primary to secondary School and started to learn French. French has two...
by David Swain | 1 Sep, 2024
Walking with the People of Gaza Rob Leslie, Victoria Regional Meeting On a cold, grey morning we arrived in the small town of Creswick to join the last half of a Pilgrimage for Gaza. We were a bit early, but after twenty minutes a small group of flag bearing walkers...
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