Editorial

Editorial Regular on-line readers may have found that the Australian Friend was temporarily unavailable.  It has suffered a near death experience due to technical issues which I do not understand.  We are scrambling to get the March issue up in time. ...

Aboriginal Sovereignty

David Johnson, Queensland Regional Meeting Right relationship with the land and with Aboriginal people requires we acknowledge Aboriginal Sovereignty over Australia. This is not an easy thing for many to consider. For Aboriginal people Sovereignty is, in the words of...

A view from Aotearoa

Murray Short, Aotearoa/New Zealand Yearly Meeting Representative Two things struck me particularly about AYM as I inevitably made comparisons with our YM. First was the presence of a large group of children and young people. It was interesting to learn that this is in...

Report from a G20 observer

Dawn Joyce, Queensland Regional Meeting The Brisbane Commonwealth Games protests in 1982 proved a turning point for first nations peoples. Wayne Wharton, a Kooma man from the Cunnamulla region of south-western Queensland and veteran activist and sovereignty...

Epistle from Australia Yearly Meeting 2014

To friends everywhere Greetings from Australian Friends, meeting in the undulating bushland setting of the Nathan campus of Griffith University in Brisbane, situated on the traditional lands of the Yuggerah people. The temperature on the day of arrival for our Yearly...