Openings and closings

Openings and closings

Openings and closings Bruce Henry, Victoria Regional Meeting and Presiding Clerk  Openings and Closings for me Most people wonder if the job they have is right for them. Parker Palmer struggled to find his vocation. He gave up his job as a community organiser and...

Know Thy Friend: David Purnell

Know Thy Friend: David Purnell David Purnell, Canberra Regional Meeting Born in Sydney, I moved to Canberra as a child with my family straight after WW2, and have spent most of my life here. I have a younger brother and sister. Both my parents were active in community...

Know Thy Friend: Julian Robertson

Peter Jones, Tasmania Regional Meeting Julian Robertson is well known to many Friends as a former Presiding Clerk of Australia YM, but his path to that role is not so well known. He was born in the south of England but with an Army Dad, spent the first twelve years of...

Getting to Know One Another-Julian Robertson.

Julian Robertson, Tasmania Regional Meeting.   I was born in England, but my childhood was also spent in a variety of countries – Burma, Norway, Jordan, and Malaysia, where my father was posted with the British army. I grew up having to make a new set of friends...