Australian Quakers divest funds

Australian Friends are to move their investments from funds that damage the earth

by Tara Craig 23rd January 2015

Australian Friends are to move their investments from funds that damage the earth.

More than 200 Australian Quakers, gathering in Melbourne for Yearly Meeting, agreed to remove their corporate funds from the country’s ‘big four’ banks. They also called on individual members and Meetings to do the same.