National Conference and National Meeting

Pax Christi Australia
( International Christian Peace Movement)

National Conference & National Meeting


17-19 September 2010
Kildara Centre, 39 Stanhope Street, Malvern Vic

The Conference
* What does it mean for Australia to be ‘secure?
* Do we need ‘great and powerful friends?’
* Why do we get involved in other people’s wars?
* Whom are we defending ourselves against?
* Is “National Security” the same as ‘human security’?
* Should we be seeking alliances of peace rather than identifying potential enemies?
* Is a real culture of peace possible
* What would it look like?

Programme.
Friday 17 September:

5.00 p.m. Gathering and registration
6.00 p.m. Evening meal

7.30 p.m. KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
A New Approach To Security for Australia
Nic Maclellan (journalist, researcher and community worker in the Pacific islands)

9.10. Reflection
“Images which Shape Us’

Saturday 18 September
9.30 a.m. War and Peace in Australian Identity
Marilyn Lake (Professor of History at La Trobe University )

10.45 a.m. Morning Tea


11.15.a.m: Redefining Security in International Relationships:

Moving towards Cooperative Security and Human Security.

Steph Cousins (Humanitarian Advocacy Coordinator at Oxfam Australia.)

12.30 p.m. Lunch

1.30 p.m. Towards a Culture of Peace:
The Faith Community Contribution .
An interactive, interfaith discussion to develop our own vision of a culture of peace for Australia.

4.15 p.m. Afternoon Tea

5 p.m. Afghanistan: A Test case for Australia, developing a new security Approach Dr Joe Camilleri

6.30 p.m. Evening Meal and social evening

Sunday 19 September
9 a.m. National Meeting of Pax Christi

• Towards a strategy for Pax Christi
• Report from World Assembly
• Asia Pacific Consultation
• PXA contribution to PXI
• Website Workshop
• Election of Nat Chair & Nat Council.

12 00 Worship

1 p.m. Lunch & Departure.

Speakers.
Nic Maclellan has worked as a journalist, researcher and community development worker in the Pacific islands. Between 1997-2000, he was the Educational Resource Development Officer with the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (PCRC) in Suva, Fiji. Nic has written widely on development, disarmament, human rights and environment in the South Pacific, and is co-author of three books on the region:

Professor Marilyn Lake was awarded a Personal Chair in History at La Trobe University in 1994. She has published 12 books and numerous articles on subjects ranging from labour history to land settlement, sexuality and citizenship, gender and nationalism, feminism and the politics of anti-racism. She co edited the recently published “What’s wrong with ANZAC, The Militarisation of Australian History.

Steph Cousins is the Humanitarian Advocacy Coordinator at Oxfam Australia. Her work focuses on promoting the rights of people affected by crisis to assistance and protection. She also advocates for the prevention of conflict, mass atrocities, arms proliferation and armed violence. Steph is the current Chair of the Pacific Small Arms Action Group and Secretary of the International Detention Coalition Governance Committee.

Professor J A. Camilleri OAM is founder of Pax Christi Australia. Joe is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Centre for Dialogue at Latrobe University. He specialises in international relations theory, security studies, the political economy of Asia Pacific, the foreign policies of the great powers, and the relationship between globalisation and governance.

Registration
Location:
Kildara (Brigidine) Centre
39 Stanhope Street, Malvern.
(next door to St Vincent's Church)

(Stanhope Street runs off Glenferrie Road Train from any city station on Frankston,
Cranbourne or Pakenham lines to Malvern.
Walk or tram 16 up Glenferrie Rd, stop 56
Or
Take 16 tram from the city (Melbourne Uni, Swanston St, St. Kilda road. )
Or from Kew, to stop 56.

Accommodation
We hope to provide billets for interstate and overseas visitors.
There is also a wide range of hotels, motels, and hostels within a reasonable distance. We will help you find one when we know what you are looking for.

Costs
Friday-Sunday , Conference and National Meeting:
$125 or $100 low income.

Friday and Saturday, Conference only
$100 or $80 low income.

Saturday Evening meal only
$20


Registration form
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Dietary preferences…………………………...

(All meals vegetarian)

Are you registering for

The whole week-end Y N

Friday & Saturday only Y N

Saturday Evening meal only Y N

Do you require accommodation? Y N

Can you offer accommodation? Y N

Please send with cheque for $20 deposit or full fee to Pax Christi, P.O Box 31, CARLTON SOUTH, VIC 3053 by 1 September

Phone Harry Kerr 03 9893 4946
ahmkerr@hotmail.com
Rita Camilleri 03 9379 3889
ritacam44@gmail.com

Two Vigils

Friday 6 August, 7 am – 9 am: Remember Hiroshima, Celebrate A Nuclear-Free Pacific.

This year will be the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is also the 25th anniversary of the South Pacific Nuclear Weapons Free Zone treaty, which the US has just said they will join! There will be a Vigil in front of St Paul’s Cathedral (corner of Swanston and Flinders streets). Sponsored by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, Japanese for Peace, Pax Christi, Quaker Peace and Social Justice Network. Further information, ring Nancy: 0431 475 465.


Afghanistan Monthly Anti-war Vigil.


Afghanistan Monthly Anti-war Vigil

Tuesday, August 17 at 4:30 pm

Location: Flinders Street Train Station (under the clocks)

Hiroshima, Nagasaki Memorial Concert

Hiroshima, Nagasaki Remembrance Events which Pax Christi is supporting.
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Memorial Concert

Sunday 8th August 2010, 3:00 – 5:00 pm

Village Roadshow Theatrette @ State Library of Victoria, Melbourne

Tickets at door: $15/$10 conc.

Warm up a cold wintry Sunday at a concert for peace
Sixty-five years after the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by nuclear blast, Japanese for Peace will bring together a diverse array of inspiring musicians, speakers and citizens of the world in a concert to celebrate peace and enable us to imagine a world without nuclear threat.

Performers:
Anne Norman – Shakuhachi
Dean Frenkel – Overtone Singer, Didgeridoo
Lee Morgan – Indigenous Musician
Liz Frencham – Singer/Songwriter
Wadaiko Rindo & Ayako Sato – Japanese Drums

Speaker:
Dave Sweeney – Australian Conservation Foundation

Supported by Victorian Multicultural Commission.
Concert proceeds to be donated to a charity organisation.

August Agape

You are invited to the August Agape


TOWARDS NUCLEAR ABOLITION

The Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference 2010

Speaker: Tim Wright

Tim Wright attended the conference as an NGO representative on behalf of ICAN.

Here an on the spot report of what the conference achieved and didn’t achieve on the road to Nuclear disarmament and of Australia’s role and contribution

TIM WRIGHT is a peace and disarmament campaigner based in Melbourne, and a board member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He founded and is the current president of the Peace Organisation of Australia, a group committed to promoting peace through education and political lobbying

Sunday August 15

at Kildara, rear 39 Stanhope Street, East Malvern.

12.30 for 1 p.m.

We will begin after a SHARED MEAL and finish around 3.30 p.m.

Please BRING some FOOD TO SHARE

(If food needs to be heated please arrive by 12.30)

ALL WELCOME