!1 Volume 20: Jan – Feb Vol 24 September October 2014 2014 | Editor: Peter Airey United Nations Day 2014 UN International Day of Peace Friday 24th October (details page 4) Sunday 21st September 2014 Peace is a long road that we must travel together – ! step by step, beginning today." Help us continue our proud tradition of marking UN Ban Ki-moon UN Day Peace Message 2014" Day with the annual Cenotaph Ceremony honouring The dawning of World Peace Day 2014 was marked Australian uniformed personnel who have served the by Yoga enthusiasts who gathered at sunrise at UN with such distinction as Peacekeepers followed by Bondi Beach to salute the sun for peace." the UN Day Luncheon in Parliament House." ! Later a group led by Olympic gold medallist Sally The details are as follows:" P e a r s o n , i n association with Sydney Wreath Laying Ceremony: ‘Bridge Climb’ TIME: 10:45 am, Friday 24th Oct." s c a l e d t h e PLACE: Cenotaph, Martin Place" Harbour Bridge to sound the Peace Distinguished Guest: " bells at noon. " Lieut General John Sanderson AC" The solemnity of Former Governor of WA and Chief of Army" the message of Annual UN Day Luncheon: p e a c e w a s m a r k e d TIME: 12:15 pm, Friday 24th October" The ringing of Peace bells over throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge on World PLACE: Parliament House, Macquarie St" day in a number peace Day 2014 Guest of Honour: Professor Ramesh Thakur" o f c h u r c h Director, Centre for Nuclear Non-proliferation s e r v i c e s . A Solemn High mass for Peace was held in St Mary’s and Disarmament ANU; and a former Assistant UN Cathedral followed by the release of white doves in . Secretary General " the lower forecourt and the pealing of church bells. " Professor Thakur will speak on the timely theme: " Peace services were held in Anglican churches in The United Nations and the Elusive Quest for Peace" Port Macquarie, Point Clare and at the Apostolic ! Church, Yagoona. Interfaith services followed by RSVP Luncheon 20th October ( Peter Airey at the release of which doves were held in he Lindfield [email protected] Mobile: 0404 257 515) For Uniting Church Hall and the Leigh memorial Uniting Church. Peacebuilding was the theme of the reservations and bookings see page 4." interfaith service at the Bahai House of worship, Afternoon Tea NSW Speakers Garden Ingleside," TIME: 3 pm Friday 7th November" Other events included a Community Forum in PLACE: Speakers Garden NSW Parliament" Gosford and a tree planting ceremony at the Strathfield Campus of the Australian Catholic This is a traditional event, hosted by the Speaker University." which rounds o$ the UN Week celebrations:" As Ban Ki-moon reminded ‘Peace is a long road’. All welcome: Donation (suggested) $10 at the door" We are looking forward to building on the Support from the City of Sydney for the Cenotaph momentum next year." Ceremony is gratefully acknowledged Dr Zeny Edwards, UN Day of Peace Coordinator. " United Nations Association of Australia (NSW) Inc. ABN 85 071 992 936 PO Box K229 Haymarket NSW 1240 Humanist House, 10 Shepherd St, Chippendale NSW 2008 Email: [email protected] Tel: 0456 124 965 Web: www.unaa.org.au ! ! UNAA Executive Director President’s Message Beth Shaw is leaving the UNAA after four years as ! Dear friends," Executive Director to take up new challenges in the corporate sector as well as to assume the Presidency ! Since I spoke to you last we of the Australian National Committee of UN Women." have had a very successful ! UN Peace Day which was In a fitting tribute to Beth’s conducted over the period work with the UNAA, the 19-21 Sep 14. This was N a t i o n a l P re s i d e n t D r managed and coordinated Russell Trood noted" by Dr Zeny Edwards. The ! fi r s t e v e n t o n 1 9 t h ‘We owe a deep debt of September, involved teams distributing UN Peace gratitude to Beth. In the Day flags and other memorabilia Central, Town several years she has Hall and Central stations. Peace Day on 21 occupied the Executive September commenced with a yoga salute to the D i re c t o r ro l e s h e h a s sunrise at Bondi Beach, peaked with our younger inspired and driven a great deal of much needed members scaling the Harbour Bridge with Sally change within the our organisation and been tireless Pearson on the Harbour Bridge Climb, and in developing our external links with government, culminated with several churches conducting UN business and the non-profit sector.’" Peace Day ceremonies. Congratulations to Sally ! for her second prestigious “The Don Award” by Her many friends and colleagues in NSW wish Beth the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. " all the very best for the future. " ! My sincerest appreciation goes to Zeny for !organising such a wonderful series of events. " Spreading the Message I hope to see you at the UN Day ceremony which is being held at the Martin Place Cenotaph on 24 ! Oct 14. The Distinguished Guest is General One of the on-going aims of the UNAA(NSW) is Sanderson who has significant peacekeeping to improve our public profile through the media. history. It will conclude with a UNAA luncheon at ! the State Parliament House. If you have not The Peace Day celebrations have been booked please do so. " particularly successful. The Bridge Climb with ! Sally Pearson was extensively covered. For And don’t forget to reserve the date for the UNAA instance, the reference in the Australian can be Annual Dinner on 28 Nov 14 at the Castlereagh viewed at http://www.theaustralian.com.au/ Boutique Hotel (Masonic Club). It’s a great night news/latest-news/bell-tolls-for-peace-atop- in a wonderful location. " harbour-bridge/story- ! Kel Gleeson" fn3dxiwe-1227065787406 President UNAA (NSW) The Point Magazine published an article “ Sunrise Yoga on Bondi Beach heralds Peace Day” http:// Central Coast Community Forum" www.thepointmagazine.com.au/post.php? ! s=2014-09-11-sunrise-yoga-on-bondi-beach- The Central Coast Branch of the UNAA(NSW) in heralds-peace-day . association with the Gosford Uniting Church held ! a Community Forum to mark the UN Day of The event at St Mary’s Cathedral was described in Peace on Monday 22nd September. " the “Sydney Catholic” at http:// The Forum was led by three distinguished sydneycatholic.org/news/latest_news/ speakers:" 2014/2014922_1068.shtml Jane Singleton Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation, and former presenter and senior In other areas, congratulations are due to reporter with the ABC;" Pamela Lemoine had two major letters in the (Central) Coast Community News; one on the Richard Broinowski Adjunct Professor, Media and UNAA Conference (20 August); and the other on Communications University of Sydney, author and former senior diplomat; and" Climate change issues (17 September). Sister Trish Madigan - A Dominican Sister and ! Director of the Dominican Centre for Inter-faith Ministry, Education and Research " UN International Day of Peace Events 21 September 2014 St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney ! ! The Baha’i House of Worship More than 2000 people ! gathered at St Mary’s Dr Patricia Jenkings Cathedral to mark the re p re s e n t e d t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n ’s 3 1 s t UNAA(NSW) at a International Day of Peace. s p e c i a l s e r v i c e The Choral High Mass was m a r k i n g celebrated by Father Paul International Peace H i l m e r, D e a n o f t h e Day at the Baha’i Cathedral. " House of Worship Ingleside, The photo Those present then s h o w s t h e g a t h e r e d i n t h e presentation to Dr forecourt to witness Jenkings (centre) of the release of doves a t o k e n o f symbolising peace appreciation." a n d t o h e a r t h e p e a l i n g o f t h e The service featured some beautiful choral Cathedral bells. " music. At the following reception, Judy Hassall, daughter of a Gallipoli veteran reflected on how Sincerest thanks are her father’s legacy inspired her to work for due to the Cathedral peace." sta$ and to the UN Release of the white Peace Day volunteer doves symbolising Bridgett Leslie." peace at St Mary’s ! A full report is in the forecourt." Lindfield Uniting Church S y d n e y C a t h o l i c Photo: Faye Combe This is a paraphrase of a report by Malcolm Allerding of the Interfaith Service at the Lindfield News at http://sydneycatholic.org/news/ Uniting Church (LUC) celebrating the UN International Day of Peace. Yes, in some parts of the world there is a level of Peace Roundtables peace, but in far too many other parts there is way too much ‘not peace’. Lindfield Uniting ! Church at least hopefully encouraged an The UN International Day of Peace program is increase in peace amongst the 100 people who being backed by a series of five Peace attended the Interfaith Peace Service, at 12 R o u n d t a b l e s noon on Sunday 21 September, the United hosted by the Nations International Day of Peace.