Editorial

by | 2 Mar, 2021

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. ...
A Friendly meditation on gender

A Friendly meditation on gender

by | 2 Mar, 2021

A Friendly meditation on gender Evan Gallagher (he/him), Canberra & Region Quakers Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. When we set out on a...

Some Yearly Meeting thoughts

by | 6 Dec, 2020

Some Yearly Meeting thoughts Jess When I was asked to write about my experience at Yearly Meeting this year, I hesitated – for a few reasons, but mostly because, while I had an amazing time this year, I haven’t enjoyed YM in the past. YM can be busy, and for some that...

Achieving marriage equality – a personal reflection

by | 4 Mar, 2018

 Evan Gallagher, Canberra Regional Meeting On 15 November 2017, we had a historic moment that should never have occurred; a majority of Australians supported marriage equality in a national postal survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. As a gay man, who has...