The Transit Lounge

Nicole Reardon

Food, shelter and water are not the only necessities of life. To be denied the chance to learn or to suffer emotional distress when family and friends can not offer encouragement and empowerment, can be defined as poverty. Melissa Scoular regularly encounters children from across New South Wales who suffer these forms of poverty and aids them.

Meera Atkinson

Sometimes distance is felt most when, after returning home from an overseas adventure, a person experiences culture shock in their own country and realises they’ve been forever changed by their time away.

The Transit Lounge Team

The role of ordained ministers is something that is not well understood. The stereotype tends to be a fairly conservative male figure, lacking in humour and with little understanding of ‘how the world works'. Apart from being male, Rev Allan Mackenzie couldn’t be more different, but he has found that this particular cap is one that fits him well.

Meera Atkinson       

A registered charity based in Canberra, Medical Advances Without Animals (MAWA) is an independent medical and scientific trust that funds and facilitates the development and utilisation of alternative non animal-based experimental methodologies to replace the use of animals in medical science.

Penelope Monger

Val Murphy is a potato-farmer and a Christian, who lives and works in south-east Victoria. Val runs tours of the farming district and tells how, some years ago, the small community of Thorpedale grew spuds to raise money for a new church.