Gender, sex and me – a memoire

Gender, sex and me – a memoire

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...
Gender specifics and being a Quaker

Gender specifics and being a Quaker

Gender specifics and being a Quaker Steve and Janice Blakeney Janice Blakeney, Tasmania Regional Meeting are As a Friend for whom being a Quaker has meant finding a spiritual path that makes not just sense but gives me a better sensibility of all the living beings on...

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. ...
QSA Notes – Equality in society, aid and development

QSA Notes – Equality in society, aid and development

 Ai Leen Quah, QSA Project Manager For those of us whose motivation in aid and development stems from notions of social justice, the concept of equality is a central focus. Upon inspecting the root causes of the poverty or food insecurity that our projects aim to...