Letter to the editor: Forrest fights slavery

by | 1 Jun, 2014

Dear Friends, The Melbourne Age, 18th March 2014, reported on Australian-led opposition to child and female sexual slavery under the headline: “Forrest Fights Slavery”. It recorded that Andrew Forrest, West Australian iron ore magnate and Australian billionaire...

Discernment and Leadings among Friends.

by | 23 May, 2013

Sue Wilson, Queensland Regional Meeting.   Early Friends Recently I’ve been reminded about early Friends and their “experimental” practice with discernment. Early Friends shared their inner journeys with each other, even sending to far-off Meetings the news of...

Going remote: working in the Kimberleys

by | 29 Nov, 2011

Brian Harlech-Jones, Canberra Regional Meeting  In mid-July 2011, Marie and I arrived in Billiluna to take over as the new managers of Mindibungu Aboriginal Corporation. ‘Billiluna? Where is that?’ ask most people. It’s in the Kimberley region of Western Australia,...

Changing the prison system

by | 28 Nov, 2011

Roger Sawkins, Queensland Regional Meeting   Changing the prison system by Tony Taylor (2011, The Religious Society of, Friends Quakers (Te Haahi Tuuhauwiri) in Aotearoa New Zealand 2011) paperback, 60 pages   This lecture was timely; in the previous week...