AUSTRALIA

Contact:
Mrs Jean Carroll
10 April Court
MAROOCHYDORE, QLD 4558
Australia

E-mail: tos.australia@gmail.com

National web site:
http://australia.theoservice.org

There are local TOS groups at most of the centres of the Theosophical Society. See the Australian TOS web pages on the national website for details of their locations and contacts, and of their various activities. Some operate their own websites as well, and if so those are linked from the National TOS web pages.

In Australia, we work in five inter-related areas of service: peace, social service and justice, environment, animal welfare and healing. The specific focuses within these areas vary depending on the particular interests of each group. Service activities in our local communities include:
•raising awareness of issues through conducting talks and seminars on a variety of topics associated with the TOS service areas
•holding meditations for World Peace
•knitting squares to make blankets
•partnering in community environmental and animal welfare projects
•tutoring refugees in English and helping them adjust to Australian society
•adopting a refuge for homeless women
•volunteering in aged-care centres
•collecting toys and clothes for relief appeals
•raising awareness about climate change.

As well as working at a local level, Australian TOS members financially support educational, social and animal welfare projects run by TOS groups in developing countries. This year we are funding four home–literacy schools organised by the TOS in Pakistan and supporting the SEE vision programme run by the TOS in Chennai, India and the TOS in Tanzania’s Heart Babies project.

There are TOS groups at the following places.  See the Australian TOS website for details:

Western Australia (WA) – Perth

South Australia (SA) – Adelaide

Queensland (QLD) – Brisbane & Sunshine Coast

New South Wales (NSW) – Sydney

Aust Capital Territory (ACT) – Canberra

Victoria (VIC) – Melbourne & Mornington Peninsular

Tasmania (TAS) – Hobart