Dear Order Ecumenical and ICA Australia colleagues,

 

You will remember Mowanjum, the first community the Ecumenical Institute worked in at the end of the 1960s and early 1970.

 

We loved many of the people there, and have recently learned that it is in deep trouble. The attached articles were written for the Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, and they are for your information and prayers.

 

Go well,

Julie Miesen 

 

 

 

 

G'day Julie
 
Attached are the online versions of the same article, by Russell Skelton.  I think they're pretty much idenhtical, and cover the same material as in The Age today.  I know The Age and The SMH are both Fairfax papers, while The Canberra Times is independent.  I suspect Skelton circulated the article widely.
 
I'll print these off, check with The Age newspapeer (I always get it on Thursdays for The Green Guide), then check The Australian today.
 
Cheers (hardly the right word)
 
Frank