Know Thy Friend: Jo Vallentine

Know Thy Friend: Jo Vallentine

Peter Jones, Tasmania Regional Meeting   Jo comes from a conservative farming background in the Western Australian wheat belt and attended a Catholic boarding school, but her outlook on life changed when she took up a career as a teacher and did some travelling....

Reflections from the 2018 Treaty Workshop

Chris Hughes, Victoria Yearly Meeting I had the pleasure of attending the Treaty workshop held by the Treaty Relationships Group at the Friends Settlement at Whanganui, Aotearoa/New Zealand (A/NZ) from Friday September 28th to Sunday 30th 2018. The Settlement...

Questions about Francis Cotton

Sally O’Wheel, Tasmania Regional Meeting This is the hardest thing I have had to deal with since I accepted the position as co-convenor of the Friends in Stitches, Australian Quaker Narrative Embroidery. I have had the job of creating the Friends in Stitches web page...

The Journal of Sydney Parkinson

Rae Litting, New South Wales Regional Meeting Many Quakers will know of Sydney Parkinson as the first Quaker to set foot in Australia.  He was the botanical illustrator for Joseph Banks, and you can see many of his illustrations on-line.  He was the subject of one of...