Month: June 2014

Available in Bookstores

I now have my books about de Quiros and other explorers who searched for the great South Land in the following stores in Brisbane – Dymocks, CBD, Angus & Robertson Post Office Square, Avid Reader, West End, Christian Supplies, Milton and Qld Museum and Qld State Library bookshops. Also the William Cooper book. The former is also in the Catholic Bookshop in Canberra and both are in Koorong stores around Australia. Some libraries have copies eg AIATSIS, National Library, Qld State Library and Brisbane Square Library. Bridges for Peace supports their wonderful work by carrying a number of titles including my William Cooper book.

Courage to Care exhibition opening

Barbara at Courage to Care Program Brisbane 5 June 2014I was privileged to attend the opening of the Courage to Care exhibition and program in Brisbane on 5 June 14 and I’m pictured beside one of the exhibits. It honours William Cooper for leading the only known private protest worldwide against Kristallnacht in 1938 when he and the Australian Aborigines League walked from his home in Footscray to the German Consulate in Melbourne to deliver a letter of protest which was not received. Kristallnacht was the start of the Holocaust. Cooper was a Christian and a campaigner for his people.
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