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2026
From Vol 108 No 3 August 2026
- The Right Thing to Do: The Story of a Quaker Captain - by Brian McNamara
- Beyond Small Talk: Having respectful conversations across difference - by Margy-Jean Malcolm
- The World's Poorest President Speaks Out: What do Aotearoa NZ Quakers Really Want? - by Jos Rossell and Philippa Fletcher
From Vol 108 No 2 May 2026
- Quid est QUNO: What is Quaker United Nations Office? - by Philippa Fletcher
From Vol 108 No 1 March 2026
- Walking the Camino - by Mavis Airey
- Rethink God: A spiritual Process - by Murray Short
2025
From Vol 107 No 5 November 2025
- Growing up at the Quaker Settlement - by Airini Beautrais
- Growth and Change at Quaker Acres - by Heather Jan
- Pakeha Theology: Is this for us? - by Elizabeth Duke
From Vol 107 No 4 September 2025
- Common Grace Aotearoa - Challenging unjust structures with love and determination - by Michael Harcourt [Acknowledgement: Photograph of 2024 Hikoi to Parliament taken by David Cook]
- Rethinking penal reform - Programmes as a human right - by Murray Short
From Vol 107 No 2 May 2025
- Provenance of Land - Wellington Monthly Meeting Premises - Lucas Davies and Quentin Abraham
- How to read the Bible ... like a Quaker - Tim Gee
- Towards a Testimony of Nonviolence - An opportunity for Transformation? - Jane Banfield
From Vol 107 No 1 March 2025
- Do we need a Quaker Testimony on Social Media? - Tim Gee
- Friends House Waiheke - History of Land - Robin Watts
2024
From Vol 106 No 5 November 2024
- The Early Quaker Movement - the seeds of spiritual equity - Annabel Taylor [Version with references]
From Vol 106 No 4 September 2024
- Climate Science and Denial Thoughts - Richard Milne
From Vol 106 No 3 June 2024
- Understanding Treaty Issues Today - Anne Potaka [Full transcript of Talk]
- Provenance of Land (including Palmerston North Meeting House) - Robin Watts, Alistair & Anne Hall
From Vol 106 No 1 March 2024
- Musings: A Quaker Reflects on Spirituality (Part 2) - Murray Short
2023
From Vol 105 No 5 November 2023
- Musings: A Quaker Reflects on Spirituality (Part 1) - Murray Short
From Vol 105 No 4 September 2023
- Visiting Letterfrack - Brian McNamara
From Vol 105 No 3 July 2023
- Preparation Day: How Quakers became organised: the history of the new Quaker Handbook - David James
- Waiheke Friends House: A meeting house by the sea - Sue Stover, with input from Ian Upton and Robin Watts
From Vol 105 No 2 May 2023
- Walking Cheerfully on Whose Land? - Quentin Abraham [Version with References]
- Bilingual AVP Resources - Graeme Storer and Esther Cowley-Malcolm
From Vol 105 No 1 March 2023
- Statement on the Peace Testimony and Ukraine - Tim Gee
- Reflections on visit to Countries bordering Russia and Ukraine - Tim Gee
2022
From Vol 104 No 4 September 2022
- Are Quakers Past Their Use-by Date? - Jan Marsh
- Memories of Earthquakes and their Aftermath - Rosemary Tredgold
From Vol 104 No 3 July 2022
- Letter to America - Jan and John Schmidt
- Ten Quakers in a Van - Jillian Wychel
From Vol 104 No 2 May 2022
- The Kaupapa Game - Murray Short
- Mark's Gospel - Vincent Wijeysingha
- Decolonisation: a Postscipt - Murray Short
From Vol 104 No 1 March 2022
- Quaking Things Up - Graeme Storer
- Decolonisation: Challenging a unilinear theory - Murray Short
- Ancestry and Colonisation - Heather Denny
2021
From Vol 103 No 4 September 2021
- Archibald Baxter: A conscientious objector - By Kevin P Clements
- NZ Conscientious Objectors: Alfred and Russell Gregory - by Linley and Claire Gregory
Supplement to Volume 103 No 3 July 2021
- Care for the Planet: toward a Quaker Story - By Murray Short
Historical
Supplement to Volume 94 No 3 July 2012:
- Beyond ‘us’ and ‘them’: A broken-ness in the eye of the beholder - The address by Thomas Owen to the World Conference of Friends Kabarak, Kenya, April 2012
The Right Thing to Do
The Story of a Quaker Captain
- by Brian McNamara
At Easter 2026 in Rockingham in Western Australia, the Catalpa Festival celebrated the 1876 escape of six Irish
Fenian prisoners.
They and other Irish men had been sent to Fremantle near Perth in 1868 for insurrection against the British government. Whilst all other prisoners had been pardoned and set free, (it being illegal to hold political prisoners amongst other reasons), there were still prisoners who had been members of the British army being held in Fremantle prison.
Former prisoners, one an escapee, went to the United States and were instrumental in organising a rescue attempt. Funded by donations in the US, the Catalpa was purchased to go as a whaling ship to Australia to take the remaining prisoners aboard and away to freedom.
The Quaker connection of this story is George Anthony, an unassuming Quaker descended from America’s founding families He was an American whaler in New Bedford, Massachusetts, who took action because he said, "It was the right thing to do.” He became the captain of the Catalpa.
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