Oxfam Australia
Diamond Valley Group

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November 2006                      Group's Newsletter                    Page 2          Home

Annual General Meeting
Friday November 10th


The program for this night is still under consideration. Perhaps you might consider being part of the committee next year, to give some of the long standing committee members a rest.
Subscriptions of $10 will be due on this night.

Eltham Bookshop
World Matters:
No Country is an Island.
Sat 25th Nov and 26th Nov
Edendale Farm, Gastons Lane, Eltham


Friday 24th November--Eltham Library

War--The Inside Story - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Weapons inspector and scientist Rod Barton in conversation with Robert Manne.

Sat 25th November: - Edendale Farm

Australia on the Map -10.00am-12.00pm
Brian Costar, Larissa Behrendt and Daniel Norrie,  discuss the state of Australian Federal politics. Chaired by Morag Fraser.

East Timor Focus - 1.00pm-3.00pm
Damian Kingsbury, Clinton Fernandes, Dulce de Jesus Soares discuss past present and future of East Timor.

No Country is an Island - 3.30pm-5.30pm
Madeleine Chiam, Kate James and David Corlett explore the issues of human rights and cultural understanding.

East Timorese Association Fund Raising Food Stall All Day

Sun 26th November--Edendale Farm

Response Ability - 10.00am-12.00pm
Discussion of successes and failures to the environment.

Stories of the World - 1.00pm-3.00pm
Story tellers present their new books

Arrival - 3.30pm-5.30pm
Four artist's unique look on arrival and asylum

Democracy on the Knife Edge--6:00pm--7:00pm
William Maley discusses Afghanistan

Culture Clashes - 7.15pm-9.00pm
Bob Connolly discusses his documentary on PNG with Helen Garner.

Particulars of the above events in the next newsletter. Further details available from Meera Govil at
elthambookshop@bigpond.com

Book Fair


In case you had not heard, we raised the extraordinary amount of $11,000. Thanks to everybody who helped over that weekend.

Eltham Festival
Sunday November 19th


We will be holding a stall at the Rotary Eltham Festival to sell Trade Winds tea and coffee and Oxfam Christmas cards and will be asking for volunteers to man this stall at the next meeting.

December Meeting
Friday December 8th


We usually have a BBQ for our December meeting, but are open to other suggestions. Over to you.