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Action for World Development (Queensland)

  • Corporate body
  • 1973-

Action for World Development (1973-). Formerly the Joint Secretariat on Action for World Development (1971-1973).
Objectives - A society characterised by: equality and caring relationships between persons; communities of trust, respect, and co-operation; participation of all in decision-making processes; solidarity with all who act on behalf of justice; balance between contemplation and action.
Publicists - Ray Bush, Rod Girle, Michael Hales, Coralie Kingston, Mal McKenna, Noel Preston, Brian Towler.
Notes: A.W.D. was the result of the concern of all churches with the imbalance in world economies. Consequently the Australian Council of Churches and the Australian Episcopal (Bishops) Conference of the Catholic Church initiated a conference (1970), a joint secretariat and a study programme (1972). The result was the formation of A.W.D. Since then A.W.D. has become increasingly autonomous and now describes itself as an ecumenical network of people throughout Australia gathered into small groups, working for personal change and structural change which brings about justice, liberation and human development in their own lives and in the lives of others.

Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor

  • Corporate body

Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET), now Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP), was a network of activists around Australia committed to building solidarity with and support for movements for social justice, genuine democratisation and self-determination around the Asia Pacific region.
Key ASAP policies include: Opposing Australian intervention into Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea, which is aimed at strengthening the imposition of neo-liberal and austerity policies by the IMF, World Bank and transnational corporations, Opposing all Australian support for, and links with, the repressive apparatus of these countries, building support for the progressive and radical movements in these countries which are fighting for genuine democracy, social justice and economic sovereignty, (including the Socialist Party of Timor PST).
ASIET established Indonesia - East Timor Campaign Watch in early 2000

Acworth, Elaine

  • US DLC no 96023046
  • Person

Elaine Acworth is an Australian playwright who studied in London for some years at the East 15 Acting School in London before her first play, Torched, was produced there. She returned to Australia in 1991 and wrote her next play, Composing Venus, as a result of her involvement with the Queensland Theatre Company's (QTC) New Writing Programme. This play won the 1993 George Landen Dann Award. Other plays she has written include Gloria (2014), and My Father's Wars (2017). She received one of the four Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a New Generation Fellowships at the Queensland Memory Awards, for 'Put Out into the Deep' in 2018.

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