Flood horror and tragedy by Agnew P & F Association. Post by Anita from Southport Branch Library.
Flood horror and tragedy as the title states is about the floods and the horror and tragedy that it brought to Queensland and its communities. The flood which inundated much of Queensland in 2010-2011 has been captured in photos and placed into this book along with stories of the horror and tragedy that also came. I first expected this book on be full of terrible pictures cover to cover of the flood. But what I actually found was some up lifting photos and stories – ones that make you feel proud to be an Australian and a Queenslander. This book captures nature at its worst but the people of Queensland and Australia at their best, helping each other during hard times. The photos and stories in this book are well worth a look and read.
The Agnews school was established by the Exclusive Brethren Christian fellowship and the Exclusive Brethren Church are behind this book. They are also behind the book “Firestorm” about the Black Saturday fires.
As for 100% of the publisher’s profit going to charity, the asterisk disclaimer is interesting – “excluding distributor and retailer’s profits”.
Profit from misery. Just my 2 cents worth.
Hi I’ve just purchased this book and I’m sorry but I believe I’ve found an error. On p160 the last sentence ends in a full stop. When you go onto p 161 it is the end of a sentence and doesn’t match. I believe a page and or photos has been missed.
I’d ask your retailer for a refund or swap, Robyn.
unfortunately after investigation the profits go to the agnew church. which doesnt have to vote or join the army. interesting group!!! with enormous funding from the government.
Hi Dr John, Thanks for commenting.
Do you mean that members of the church are required not to enrol to vote, or join the army, by the church? I mean, in Australia none of us have to join the army, and you only have to vote if you are registered to vote, don’t you? Are we legally required to register? Are members of the church exempt?
(Not legal advice, of course) Louise, according to the AEC website, if you are an Australian citizen, and you are 18 years old, or older, you must enrol to vote in Federal elections. You may enrol when you are 16, but may not vote until you are 18. Enrolment is compulsorary unless you are mentally unsound, or have been convicted of treason or treachery but not pardoned.
(Must go look up what constitutes treachery in Australian law…)
If you are registered, you must vote unless you meet some rather rare criteria (you are serving a prison sentence longer than three years, for example) or have a satisfactory reason why you didn’t. Being in a religion that does not permit voting used to be in the act as one of the acceptable reasons, but I didn’t check the act’s current wording before writing this. Assuming its the same, perhaps the Exclusive Bretheren have a similar point of doctrine to, say, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, who similarly refuse to vote. If, of course, the Brisbane Times is right in saying that the school mentioned as the author is an Exclusive Brethern school. The claim is repeated here.
As to the army thing – no, our forces are entirely voluntary.
Quick extra bit of Googling. The Exclusive Bretheren now prefer to be called the Plymouth Bretheren Christian Church and their website lists the Agnew School as one of theirs. http://www.plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org/index.php/ourschools.html. It also notes that they choose not to vote as a matter of conscience: http://www.plymouthbrethrenchristianchurch.org/index.php/about-politics.html
Thanks Timothy! Dreadful laziness on my behalf, not checking to see if registering to vote was compulsory, and that’s why you’re a better reference librarian than me. I registered to vote in the last century, so, of course, it’s all lost in the mists of time. I don’t mind voting being compulsory, I just wish we had a “none of the above” option.
What I’d like is an option like the Greeks, where if enough of you vote for a person, they are declared odious and forced to move overseas for a decade or so. My problem of course is that you can only get rid of one, so you’d need to choose very carefully.