by David Swain | 6 Sep, 2020
This book, by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, tells the story of Katherine Gun, an employee of Government Communications Headquarters in the UK, who, in 2003, leaked a secret e-mail in the hope that it would prevent an illegal war. She achieved fame by saying “I...
by David Swain | 3 Mar, 2019
Paula Paananen, New South Wales Regional Meeting “You could throw a bean out this taxi window and it would germinate” were my first thoughts when my family and I arrived at mainland Entebbe, Uganda in 2011. We were led there to teach permaculture to the...
by David Swain | 4 Jun, 2018
Rowe Morrow, New South Wales Regional Meeting In a refugee camp in Iraq, people are preparing to return to their home city of Mosul which they fled when it was heavily bombed last year. With them, after a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) they will be taking new...
by David Swain | 4 Sep, 2016
Mardi Naulty, Canberra Regional Meeting A smoking ceremony was recently held to remember Waratah Rosemary Gillespie and to launch Waratah’s Peace Garden at Silver Wattle Quaker Centre, Bungendore. Rosemary, who later took on the additional name Waratah, died in...
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