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Video The Springfield Anglican College Primary students celebrate Harmony Day embracing this year's theme, "Harmony—We All Have a Role to Play" Video

The Springfield Anglican College Primary students celebrate Harmony Day

Watch The Springfield Anglican College Primary students celebrate Harmony Day, embracing this year’s theme, “Harmony — We All Have a Role to Play”. Dressed in orange or cultural dress, students engaged in meaningful discussions about honouring and respecting diverse cultural backgrounds and finding common ties that unify us all

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Voices For Peace: New resource promoting a socially inclusive future

Voices For Peace is a new resource from the Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma — whom the ACSQ is affiliated with through the Queensland Community Alliance and the BRASS Network — featuring community members and leaders sharing their thoughts and advice on what building a socially inclusive future entails

"Having been through four countries in the past month, with longer stays in two, several things have struck me as I return home," The Very Rev'd Dr Peter Catt (pictured with son Josh in Canada in May 2024)
Reflections

"In politics the tail often wags the dog"

“Canadians are incredibly gracious drivers. Even those who drive the most ridiculously large utes stop on a dime to let people cross the road — even in places where there is no pedestrian crossing. Italian traffic looks to be incredibly chaotic. It in fact operates under two very important rules that are obeyed to the letter: 1. Go as fast as you can. 2. Do not hit anybody,” says The Very Rev’d Dr Peter Catt

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Canterbury College celebrates 2023 United Nations Day

Watch Canterbury College students, staff, parents, extended families and alumni celebrate this year’s United Nations Day with a stunning multicultural celebration. It was a day of learning, appreciating and celebrating all the different cultures and foods that make up the incredibly diverse “Canterbury Family”, of almost 80 dialects from around 60 different countries

Reflections

A glimpse of the kingdom

“What can we learn from a school gathering that authentically celebrates all its students — Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike? Might it be that if we truly recognise, reconcile and honour the past, it will unify us all?” asks Bishop John Roundhill