Book review: Truth-Telling by Henry Reynolds

Book review: Truth-Telling by Henry Reynolds

Book review: Truth-Telling by Henry Reynolds Published in 2021, Reynolds latest book on our Aboriginal history provides an excellent backdrop into the current national conversation on “The Voice”. Like Reynolds, many Australians have not heard details of the actual...

“Pay the Rent”

Duncan Frewin, Queensland Regional Meeting Up to the 1990s, it would be fair to say that Queensland Quakers’ relationship with Indigenous people was within a general framework of charitable work. That is, givers gave from their abundance and receivers were expected to...

Listening To Aboriginal People

David Purnell, Canberra Regional Meeting The Committee on Racial Equality (CORE) began in 2007 on the initiative of Waratah Rosemary Gillespie. Based in Canberra, its initial focus was on the Northern Territory intervention and its impact on Aboriginal communities....

Aboriginal Sovereignty

David Johnson, Queensland Regional Meeting Right relationship with the land and with Aboriginal people requires we acknowledge Aboriginal Sovereignty over Australia. This is not an easy thing for many to consider. For Aboriginal people Sovereignty is, in the words of...