Out & About
Hear community members from across our Diocese share their 2025 ACSQ Synod highlights and insights
Justice & Advocacy
“While the London Missionary Society is often given credit for stopping tribal warfare between Torres Strait Island tribes, I think this is often used to cover up their disruption to our cultural practices,” says Uncle Milton Walit
Uncle Milton Walit from NATSIAC and The Parish of Laidley, The Rev’d Eleanor Mancini from the Cathedral and Joanne Stone from the Finance and Diocesan Services Commission reflect on their National Reconciliation Week highlights, what this year’s National Reconciliation Week theme “Bridging Now to Next” means to them and which First Nations person inspires them the most and why
“Today we are standing in Brisbane’s Anzac Square next to the stunning memorial to Queensland’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander service men and women,” say Uncle Milton Walit and Archbishop Jeremy Greaves
Four more faithful clergy and lay people from across our Diocesan Regions share their Synod highlights and learnings with anglican focus readers, including The Rev’d Catherine Govan, Uncle Milton Walit, Margaret Compton and The Rev’d Canon Bruce Boase
Meet Uncle Milton Walit from St Saviour’s, Laidley and find out about his Anglican Church roles, his faith journey, why he joined the Army, his bishop uncle mentor and his thoughts on Reconciliation, the Bible and Anzac Day
“As a community, after the Easter Day service we celebrated the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with a big kai kai (feast). People from all over the Torres Strait Islands and Papua New Guinea (which was then still administered by Australia) came via sailing canoes rather than by motor boats, bringing seafood, taro, sweet potato, casava, sago and other traditional foods. We then had traditional dancing with men wearing headdresses made of emu feathers and women wearing grass skirts,” says Uncle Milton Walit from NATSIAC and The Parish of Laidley
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