Swedes Down Under
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SWEDES DOWN UNDER
SVENSKA KLUBBEN I QUEENSLAND Argfmg 2, Nr. 1 - januari 1990 '
Postage pald Mt Ommaney Q4074
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I D E T T A NLJMM E R B L . A . : SLJNDSVALLSKDRENS
BESD~<\:!F~EDS.
VALSPRAK I BLASVADER!
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'REDAKTORENS RUTA
Vips, sfl var vi inne i niista flrtionde.! Det kiinns faktiskt riktigt bra! Visst biirjade viii flttio- ta!et kiinnas en aning slitet? Aret har precis borjat och redan sfl har man hamnat i blflsviider.
Eller riittare sagt, mitt valsprflk har gjort det. Las Geoff Dow's "Ett oinformerat valsprflk" pfl sid 8, sfl ser ni vad jag menar. Tro nu inte kiira lasare att jag tar flt mig det minsta, nej tvartom, f6r det f6rsta sfl alskar jag en bra debatt eller diskussion, f6r det andra sfl stflr jag f6r mina flsikter.
Nu tror ju inte jag att Geoff och jag egentligen har sfl skilda flsikter om Sverige. Det har aldrig varit min mening att svartmflla mitt hemland ochjag hflller med om att Socialdemokratin har flstadkommit en he! de!. Rattvisa, trygghet, tillvaxt o.s.v. Det ar bar det att jag
personligen upplevde priset f6r allt detta orimligt hogt. Priset heter frihet och dfl specie!lt nflgonting som jag vardesatter hiigre an nflgot annat, namligen VALFRIHET!
Jag undrar ocksfl om inte Geoff ar lite av ett offer f6r "grannens gras ar alltid gronare" - syndromet. Dessutom sfl hoppas jag att mitt omstridda valsprflk "Ur Sverige i tid" tas emot med den nypa humor som alla som Jaser denna spalt bCir vara rikligt utrustade med!
Jag vill hursomhelst passa pfl att tacka Geoff f6r inslaget och alla andra som bidragit o Helt plCitsligt sfl befinner vi I redaktionen ass i den angenama situationen att vi faktiskt mflste valja och vraka bland materialet! Vi tackar och bockar!
Jag kan inte heller lflta bli att trakassera alla dam som missade Sundsvallskoren under deras besok hiir i Brisbane! Ni stackare missade verkligen en fantastisk upplevelse! Las mera om deras besok pfl sid. 6.
Aprflpfl fantastiska upplevelser fCirresten, var det nfln mer an jag som hade turen att besoka toaletterna i Brisbane Entertainment Centre? Oh boy, dam var verkligen i en klass f6r sig!
Stora, ljusa, rena och lyxiga lokaler. Jag hoppas verkligen att ni som besokte denna bekvam- Jighetsinriittning lade marke till hur minsta detalj var finslipad till perfektion. Tyck nu inte att jag altar detta fiir mycket, det ar bara sfl att det var en av hCijdpunkterna i ett livs- lflngt intresse, eller man kanske kan gfl sfl lflngt att man t.o.m. kan kalla det fiir en hobby!?
Slutligen viii jag, till Geoff och alla er andra leverera iinnu ett av mina tankvarda valsprflk:
"Oet ' ' b;ttrn att vaca elk ooh fri•k
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fatt;g ooh ojvk". SkOt om "· v'E:comOtetiARSMOTE
Du ar harmed inbjuden till Swedes Down Unders ArsmOte vilket kommer att hA!Ias pA Finska
Klubben,
60-62 Newnham Road, Mount Gravatt, Queensland
Torsdagen den lS:e februari 1990 klockan 19.30.
FOljande dagordning kommer all glllla:
I Val av ordftlrande mr ArsmOteL
2 Presentation av klubbens verksamhetsber!lttelse.
3 Klubbens ekonomiska revision.
4 Val av rOslr!lknare.
5 Val av ordf(lrande; sekreterare; kassOr.
6 Val av vice ordf.; vice sekreterare; vice kassor.
7 Val av tre styrelseledamOter.
8 Allmlin diskussion.
Kaffe serveras efter sammantrlldets avslutande.
Medlemmar iir uppmanade all komma tidigt tiTI sammantriidet och flirnya
medlemsskapet. Endast /inansiella medlemmar ager rlistrlJ'll vid drsmlitet!
ARSMOTET kommcr all hAllas pA cngclska!
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
You are hereby invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of Swedes Down Under to be held at the
Finnish Club, 60-62 Newnham Road, Mount Gravatt, on
Thursday, 15th February, 1990 commencing at
7.ao
p.m.Agenda:
I Election of chairperson for the A.G.M.
2 Presentation of the Annual Report.
3 Auditor's Report.
4 Election of scrutineers.
5 Election of President, Secretary, Treasurer.
6 Election of Vice Pres., Vice Seer., Vice Treas.
7 Election of three committee members.
8 General Discussion.
Coffee will be served at the conclusion of the A.G.M.
Members' early attendance Is encouraged to renew membership. Only financial
members are eligible to vote!
NOTE: The A.G.M. will be conducted in English!
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DRDFORANDE HAR DRLJET
Nyarsloften flog omkring i manga hem nu i dagarna. Folk beslutade sig for att ta sig i kragen, banta ner sig nagra kilon; sluta roka; ta en valfortjanad semester; skriva sina memoarer, eller bygga en pergola i tradgarden.
Tyvarr lovar vi oftast for mycket, eller staller alltfor stora krav pa oss sjalva. Fa av oss kommer ihag nyarsloften a
fr~n
forra aret. Om en individ kan avlagga ett nyarsl of t e , kanske ocksa ett kollektiv kan gora detsamma. Jag syftar na- turligtvis pa Swedes Down Under. Vad ska klubbens nyarslo bli?
Utan att kunna kontakta medlemmarna eller styrelsen, vilka vid den har arstiden ar spridda fran Sverige i norr till varJe Australisk stat i Soder pa semester, kan jag namna n agra on- skemal, vare sig sedan om de kan kallas nyarsloften eller ej !
Forst och framst uppmanar jag alla som blev medlemmar i Swedes Down Under under etableringsaret a tt f ornya sitt med- lemsskap i 1990. Till denna redan imponerande skara hoppas jag att manga nya svenskar och svensk-australiensare kommer att anknytas. Manga svenskar finns gomda (och glomda) darute i samhallet vilka inte hort talas om klubben. Har star en viktig uppgift infor alla klubbmedlemmar att sprida positiv reklam for Swedes Down Under sa att vid decenniets forsta 3rs slut en ny : skara anhangare har gatt med i klubben.
Vidare skulle det vara gladjande om medlemmarna horde av sig i Queenslandaren med forslag pa olika aktiviteter. Det ar vasentligt lattare for styrelsen att vara lyhord pa for- slag om aktiviteter an att hitta pa alla tillstallninga r sjalva. Aktiviteternas succe eller fiasko beror ju so m be
1\ t
pa intresseunderlaget.
Slutligen hoppas jag att sa manga som mojligt kommer pa a rsmotet och styrelsevalet i februari dar allt ni har pa hjartat (inklusive nyarsloften) kan diskuteras.
Sjalv ska jag forverkliga mitt forsta nyarslofte nu i dagarna och ga och njuta av Kjell Lonnas fina kor fran Sverige.
God fortsattning pa det nya (och farska) 1990-tal e t ...
Hi'.lRT FRAN Al\!KDAMMEN - OCH ANDRA U".lSA RYKTEN
*Den stora avkommuniseringsvagen som sveper over stora delar av t'.lst-Europa har t.o.m. natt lilla Svedala. Jada, nu har niimligen Viinsterpartiet Komrnunisterna beslutat sig ftir att haka pa trenden och slopar helt sonika K:et fran sin partibeteckning (VPK). Nurnera sii kallar dom sig alltsa bara ftir VP. Ja, se Vindarna darn viinder ... .
* Det heiske inte ser sa !just ut just nu ftir viira egna "high-flyers" Mr Bond och Mr Skase, me1. .>-chef en Jan Carlzon har svart att dolja sin f6rtjusning over sin senaste kupp.
Han har niimligen lyckats ftirverkliga sin stora dram, att ha en star partner i varje viirldsdel.
Nu samarbetar SAS med ANA i Japan, Thai i Bangkok, LAN Chile i Sydarnerika, Swissair i Europa och nu dessutorn Finnair. SAS, Swissair och Finnair har tillsarnmans over 70 000 anstiillda och en ornsiittning pa niira 60 mi]jarder kronor. Det betyder att man kommer att bli storre an Europas ledande enskilda f!ybolag British Airways. Grattis Carlzon ... .
*Dom har tydligen hoga tankar om Australisk ekonomi i Sverige. Pa annat siitt kan det ju inte tolkas att hela finansutskottet - 17 ledamoter och tvi'i kanslister - akte runt hela jorden ftir att studera var ekonomi och frarnforallt forsoka komrna pi\ hur man egentligen skall gora f6r att siinka skatten for medborgarna. For att riktigt l!lta alla nya intryck sjunka in ordentligt sa tar utskottets ordf6rande Anna-Greta Leijon (s) sina tappra ledam6ter med sig till Waikiki Beach pa Hawaii! For att studera vad undersatarna hemma i ankdammen kan anviinda sina sparade skattepengar till, efter en eventuell skattesiinkning, sa bar man pi\ lyxhotellet Holiday Inn. Efter den utlovade skattesankningen, sa kan faktiskt en svensk skattebetalare ocksa bo pa Holiday Inn, han/hon behaver bara spara sin skattesankningspeng i ett par ar ... .
* Apr!'lpa skattesiinkningen ftirresten, sorn lite blygsamt dopts av politikerna till "arhundradets skattereform", vad kommer den i praktiken att betyda egentligen? Oet finns val ingen som riktigt vet men i det stora hela sii ftiljer det viii den gamla vanliga "svenska modellen" dar staten ger med ena handen och tar med den andra. Problemet brukar vara att den handen som tar b!'Ukar vara mycket storre an den som ger. Marginalskatten skall b!i". max
sor.
och sa hojs grundavdraget till 10 000 kr. Dessutom inf6rs ett "special-grundavdrag" pa 250 kr f6r varje tjanad tusenlapp ftirutsatt att man tjanar mellan 58 000 och 90 000 kr/ar. Det var bara en skrapning pa ytan av arhundradets skattereform och vi Far sakert anledning att aterkomma ...*Sr. 1"'intat sa lat inte dam negativa effekterna av "arhundradets skatterefOrm'' viinta pa sig.
Fb. "t bekosta reformen sa har staten gjort nagra "mindre justeringar" i vanligt folks dagliga ekonorni. T.ex. sa ska restaurangmomsen och byggmomsen hdjas till normal niva dvs.
23.46% fran arskiftet. Dessutom inftirs moms pa energi, frisdrtjanster och kommunala tjiinster som vatten, avlopp och sophiimtning. For en villaagare betyder detta en dknipg pa minst 250 till 300 kr i manaden! Till detta kommer de i manga fall kraftiga skattehdjningarna som ftiljer pi'l de nya taxeringsvardena. Som ett ytterligare exempel pa "ge och ta" politiken iir att barn- bidraget hojs 1991 med drygt 4 000 kr till totalt 10 060 kr/barn och ar.
Samtidigt sii slopar man mjdlksubventionerna helt vilket betyder att en liter mjdlk blir minst 1:50 dyrare per liter ... .
* Postverket vill ju inte vara siimre och har darf6r beslutat sig ftir att hiija sina priser ocksa!
Vanligt brevporto ar numera 2:50 vilket inte i och f6r sig ar si!i dar iiverdrivet dyrt, men det ar just hiir sorn smartheten kommer frarn. Man hojer miittligt pa priser som man vet skapar rubriker och sa kliirnmer man i ordentligt istallet pa kostnader som inte "syns" pa samma siitt!
Diirftir far medborgarna numera betala 6 kronor f6r att gdra en enkel postgiroinbetalning!
Diirf6r far ocksa medborgarna helt plotsligt betala
zoo
kr f6r en adressandring/eftersandning, nagot som ftirut var helt gratis! En aning oftirskamt eller ... ?*Av nagon outgrundlig anledning har Socialdernokraterna tappat anhangare kraftigt. Statistiska centralbyrans stora undersokning visar att Socialdemokraterna endast lyckas skrapa ihop 36,2 procent, vilket iir en nedgang med mellan 6, 1 och 7,9 procentenheter sedan valet ... .
"Sunsvallsktiren i full sang"
"Den lill~ droppen dripp"
"TiPiPrnFI kl;:irar skivan" (Tack SB mycket!)
SLJNDSVALLSKDREN PA
BESOK I BRISBANE!
Det \Jar inte utan att det drog lite i ens bla- blodiga adra nar man klev in och mattes av
Ou Gamla Du Fria!
Nu vet man hur kungen kanner sig ernellanat!
Jag pratar naturligtvis om klubbens "lilla traff"
med Sundsvallskoren tva dagar f6re deras kon- sert i Brisbane! Synd att sa fa av oss vagade dyka upp. Herregud, det var ju dom som var dom nyanlanda svensk¥~;:i, dam skul~J vara blyga,
tysta och at _ hallsamrna!
L_ m risk!
Sallan har jag sett san harlig spontanitet och uppriktig gladje i rnusik!
Efter ett tag sf~ var kand8 atminstone jag mig som en mycket valkommen gast pa kornns fest!
Det sjtings, spexades, sho1A1ades och krarnades flitigt under hela kvallen och mitt i allt detta sa
hanns det ocksa utbytas presenter!
DE)t var verkligen on rolig kvall!
Allt detta hande pa onsdagskvallen och nar vi akte hem, sa var vi verkligen glada fflr att vi
hade bestallt biljetter till fredagens konsert!
Jag har aldrig betraktat mig som nan storre beundrare av ktirsang. Arligt talat sa r1ar jag inte hart sa tiverdrivet mycket korsang over-
huvudtaget.
0 . J-OJ, .
v1 en un erudr 'lk d ') I <va
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,,,f' ic upp k l eva. ' Det var verkligen underhallning i \Jarldsklass och
man kande sig bade
privili~Jieradoch bortskamd som bara hade att sitta dE'ir och njuta ftir fullt!
Ktiren frami'Orde ett varierat program med allt fran oandligt vackra psalmer till underbara och
svangiga negro-spirituals, allt kombinerat med en riklig dos humor och rned glimten i tigat!
Ett stnrt och varmt tack till Kjell Lonna och vara rwvunna vanner fran SunrJsvall! Korn och
halsa pa snart igen, snalla ni!
Text och foto: Jim Lagerstedt
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"Gunnar utvaxlar presenter med Kjell Ltinna och Curt Backstrom"
"Ordftirande och kasstir i en schottis"
"Stig Hokanson lar Kjell Aussie-politik"
"Ur Sverige i tid"? Ett svar till ett oinformerat valsprik
Many Swedish emigrants to Australia, including some who have written for Queensliindaren, appear to be hostile to contemporary Swedish social and political life. There are, on the other hand, non-Swedes who have come to believe that there is much that Australians, especially policy-makers, could learn from an examination of Sweden. In these few paragraphs, I will try to indicate what it is that is attractive about 'the Swedish model' and why Sweden is of such interest to people outside Sweden.
First let me set Australia itself in comparative perspective. Since 1974, when the current global economic downturn started, Australia has experienced one of the world's worst unemployment rates (an average over the 14 years of 6. 9 percent). This compares with an OECD average of 6.6 percent and a Swedish record of 2.4 percent. This is the result of public policies that have obviously worked in Sweden, while different policies have failed in Australia. Taxation is very different, as most Swedes well know; it is reflected in the size of the public sector which accounts for about 60 percent of GDP in Sweden and well under 10 percent in Australia. This is what emigre Swedes often complain of: the high degree of regulation that has accompanied Sweden's highly managed economy and its impressive welfare system. Australia not only has a less developed welfare state, low taxes and poor economic performance; but since the 1960s, it has acquired one of the most unequally distributed incomes in the OECD. The gap between rich and poor is now wider here than in any other major developed country. Once again, these outcomes are the result of policy choices of the two countries' governments, their political parties and their trade unions. We must never forget that despite the irritation these intrusions into our private lives seem to cause, the benefits to society as a whole are enormous. Such benefits are measured in terms of security, evenly distributed affluence and the general level of civility and mutual respect. This is what Sweden amply demonstrates to the world.
The foundations of Swedish social democracy were laid in the 1920s and 1930s;
but the subsequent emergence of a distinctive 'model' has been both slow and difficult. The social democratic model, or 'folkhemsmodellen' as Per Albin Hansson called it, was based on Ernst Wigforss' s critique of the orthodox, liberal response to poverty and unemployment in the 1920s. Wigforss was able to demonstrate in his writings and speeches that if Sweden were to follow the anglo- saxon model of non-intervention (which was in effect another way of saying that government was not entitled to take responsibility for the well-being arnl living standards of its citizens) social conditions would deteriorate - as
th~X
did elsewhere in Europe.This fundamental principle - that people's lives should not be determined by chance or by uncontrolled market forces - was institutionalized in the 1930s in a variety of ways which make Swedish social and economic policy distinctive. The SAP governments after 1932 introduced keynesian (counter-cyclical) economic policies before any other country did; they explicitly accepted responsibility for full employment
(somethin~
most other countries have still not done); and they al lowed what has become ·a permanent system of centralized wage fixing organized by the employers (SAF) and the unions (principally LO) to be the basis of nationwide bargaining between employers and employees. Saltsjobadsavtalet, or 'the basic agreement' allowed disputes over wages to be resolved without systematic bias in favour of property-owners and for many decades remained the foundation for Sweden's 'solidarity wages policy'.After 1945, what Gunnar Myrdal called 'harvest time' became the consolidation of social democracy's commitment to full employment,
w~lfa~e
state provision, industrial expansion and another Swedish innovation, the labour market board, Arbetsmarknadsstyrelsen (AMS). The point of these developments is that they.demonstrated that prosperity and equality were compatible, something governments
in other countries were attempting to deny. The gains made by Swedes in the post war period were not easily achieved, as can be seen in both the problems associated with Gosta Rehn's and Rudolf Meidner's solidarity wages policy (whose purpose was to reduce pay differentials and to divert profits to those industries best able to use them for industrial renewal) and in the opposition to the supplementary pension scheme (ATP) which also characterized the period.
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The commitments of Swedish trade unioni t (th h
involvement in economic policy-makin ( .s s roug LO and TCO) to responsible were doing in the anglo-saxon worldg) lll ~~ntr~st to what the equivalent bodies labour market policy' required a lar
c~n
inue int~e
l.960s. when the 'active granted to AMS. What has been notabl ;'t~egree
of 11l.st1 tut1onal power to be that each step has been the ba. ef n fese successive policies, however, is d. . sis or urther steps There · t ·
imens1on. As each problem is resolved d . is a s rateg1c achievements are used as the thresh l l 'ran fas new problems emerge' the existing preparedness t t ~ c or urther advance. There has been little Reagan (and
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re::t~
the an.ti-progressive policies that the Thatcher and institutions o er experiments produced because a broad ra ff
has already anticipated problems and has been able to ndge . o
appropriate, orward-looking solutions. ev1se
This is the type of situation which ave ri
funds (lontagarfonder) in the 1970 g d
198~e
to the debates over wage earner concentration of economic power ins an 11 s. LO had been. concerned with the }he lack of employee influence in theafi~::
(an~mber
of Swedish co.mpanies' with with declining levels of productive inves;m the lack of~conom~c
democracy)' , _ution to complex problem was proposed _ bR~~\f One~
again,~n1q~ely
Swedish as all who have followed Swedish y o Me1dner. This time however, forward march of social democracynehwspa:ers !or the past decade know well, theremain. as een interrupted and political problems
The wage earner funds campaign was made necess b
the unions had allowed super-profits to build
ar~
ecause wag.e restraint from of public control over the companies' investmenutp int~e
companies;~nd
the lackfor the economy as well as for social d
pract1~e~ ~as
creating problems gradual transfer of shares in the com~mocracy.
The !n1t1al plan was for the practice the scheme was muchweakene~anb1ye\:o n~:·d
union controlled, funds; in Feldt) - to such an extent that t e . e. ri s ag (urged on by Kjell Olof failed. So the latest stage int:e
ecvaomfu"t'-gn is now generally regarded to have somewhat disappointing; but this shouldnot1ob~
.of social. d:mocrac_y lll Sweden is In general' Sweden's investment p 1. . ind us to 1 ts long-term successes.influence than elsewhere and the e o ic1es. are subJected to· more democratic system has produced an un rec d conomy is strong as a result. The welfare don't
f~tuate
wildly as Par:s~i~~e~/~gre.e
.0f security: people's livelihoods the labour market, there is.common rec~c~s1ons
made by other people. And inand that jobs should be properly
remun:;~~~~o~
that people have a right to a joblearned that a modern economy does not work nd safe. The
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oft~e
world has prescription of those who think the . belst by followrng the sin1ple-mlllded re is no roe for government or trade unions.;:.hese are considerable achievements; no other countr l ·
. '1 wide-spread protection for i' t . t. . Y ias been able to provide 1
. s c1 izens while ensur ·
uct1ve economy. This is why we sho lei b . ing a strong and the impediments to freedom as if th ~ e very careful before focussing on remember that people have a response/beill'St not
co111pens~
ting gain. We should also from, their society. I f Australians had 11 y o dcontr1bute to, not only to taket 10 earne some of these le s h
pas or 15 years we might have avoided the , s ons over t e so much damage to hational prestig d t f spectacle of entrepreneurs causing e an o ormerly sound, productive companies.
Swedes themselves should appreciate the d
responsibility and individual success: it . i f f iculty of balancing social discovering and implemeuting these aspects is Sweden that has led the world in to be all the richer for their efforts. of social democracy. I would like us
Geoff Dow
Lecturer in political economy Department of Government University of Queensland
SCti<VD(NAV<AN ([5((VAL "90
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20th - 26th of August 1990.
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every first & third Friday of the month, a t 7.30 mn.We have secured the services of a TAFE teach-
~r of j ewellry to prod. uce
11\TI KI~TG J E\{EIJ ,"EY
11to sell e. luri ng the Festival.
1 990 WOHK SHOJ?S However we do require Frida y at 7.39 pm materials and tools,so February 2nd &~ '16t h any assistance we can M arch 2nd & . '16th get in ootaining these April 6th & 20th will oe greatly appreci- 11ay 4th &~ 18th at e d. W e require: Scrap
June 1st ~ 15th metal i.e. pewter,brass, July 6th & 20th coppe r & lead.We are loo k August 3rd & 17th ing for scrap p ewter mu t5 s
bra ss & cop p er wire e tca
suitable for melting down & recasting. Also n e e d- e d is p laste~ of paris & cuttlefisho ~
JTools reqo : Bench Vice, gas bottle w /torch or
b urne r, pl iers,si de -cut ters ,l ong- n o se pl i ers , en - gine ers hamme r, rubbe r hami.ter, hand-drill w /small si ze m etal bits,soldering iron,s older & flux,
fil e s and wet & dry paper e tca
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en klubb fi:irsven~kar
bosatta i Queensland, deras fami]jer och andra 111tresserade. Ett av klubbens huvudmiil ar att bevara, fi:irvalta och fi.irmedla s k k lttraditioner och varderingar. vens u ur, Ett annat mill ar att arrangera aktivitEJter och sammankomster fi:ir medlemmarna.
_ Swedes Down Under is a social club for Swedes living in Queensland their fa T d th interested people. One of the club's main objectives is to preserve
~dministe~JSJes d~nh
0 ltertraditions and values. ' we JS cu ure, Another objective is to arrange activities and gatherings for the members.
STYRELSE I COMITTEE 1989 Drdfi:irande / President:
Vice Ordf. I Vice Pres:
Kassi:ir I Treasurer:
Vice Kass. / Vice Treas:
Sekreterare I Secretary:
Redakti:ir I Editor:
Medlemsskap I Memebership:
Fami]j I Family: $ 10.00 Enkel I Single: $ 7.00
Gunnar Sti'lhlman Lars Persson Ann Stiihlman Agneta Heinonen Irene Gustafsson Jim Lagerstedt
(07) 209 9974 (07) 3 56 1530 (07) 209 997 4 (07) 209 6485 (07) 396 8121 (075) 533 656 Adress fi:ir korrespondens/
adress for correspondence:
Swedes Down Under 87 Blackwood Rd.
MANLY WEST QLD 4179
Viilko11u11e11 aufira gwisrja11s1 i
Gudstjanster p! svenska hAllas den fOrsta sOndagen i varje mlnad vid
SL Mark's Lutheran Church of Australia 71 Newnham Road, Mount Gravatt, Queensland
klockan 18.00
varejier fl!ljer wffe och samicYOm j kyrksa/eri.
FEBRUARI - Sondagen den 4:e februari. Gudsljanst.
Efter gudstjllnsten fOljer kyrkorMets Arsrni\le och val av kyrkorad fiir verksarnhetsAret 1990.
MARS - Silndagen den 4:e mars. Aflonandakt med kaffc och samkviim. •
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Svenska Skolan i Brisbane kallar till ett uppr h b" · ii ..undervisning btirjar li:irdagen den 3:e
februarf~ 9 ~~
ii %?an Pt det nya lasiiret. Skol ans~;~t ~nd. V~rfi:ir
inte tba vara pi\ den friaundervis~ngeJ~r~;r ;:~l~~~~=r~ebnat;~·m~~l~~d~ric~t,
r ar c ansen att evara det svenska spri'lket och k lt ..
visningsprogram. For ytterligare information, kontakta
S~e~~~~ ~~~l~~se~t va~pl'laner~t
under-Fru Elisabeth Coltman (07) 263 3755. uvu arare.
SCANDINAVIAN RADIO GROUP
Varfi:ir inte falla ut parabol i:ironen och lyssna pi\ dam svenska rad' " d · msan nmgarna .. d · Pc ra JO I.EB - Multilingual Radio.
Na, skamt iisido sii racker det gott och val med en vanlig antenn' Det .. b rat ta in 1053 kilohertz pi\ AM-bandet och nJ'uta S" d . t:d, ar ara att
Monday Friday Monday Friday
29/1/90 9/2/90 19/Z/90 2/3/90
. e1n mngs J er nedan:
9:15-10:45 10:00-10:45 9:15-10:45 10:00-10:45
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AUSTRALIAN CONTACTS AND FRIENDS WANTED
Our family of four, •'1adeleine (40), Kayes (41), our daughters Cornelia (8) and Duveke (4) of Swedisf1-Dutch origin with valid migrant visas for Australia would like to hear from people living in the Brisbane area regarding living conditions and working possibilities.
Kayes intends to travel in advance to look for a job and accomodation. Any ideas or suggestions that could make our move a succesful one, will be most appreciated!
All letters will be answered in Swedish or English as preferred.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Kayes & Madeleine van Baalen Solbergahemmet
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Jarna SWEDENNya medlerrmar - valkomna ombord!
New members -welcome aboard!
Fam. J.Berg, Lightning Ridge Fam. K.Bjorkman, Nerang Fam. K.Wiklund, East Brisbane
T .Holmqvist, Sandgate Fam. L.Ahlstriim, Sverige (!)
FODELSEDAGAR - BIRTHDAYS
Dubbelgrattis till Lisa och Rebecca Hokanson
som fyller 43 resp. 19 samma dag, namligen
den 3:e februari!
Ett fOrsent grattis till
"teskedsgumman" - Elke Giiransson som fyllde 29 den 21 :a januari!
S t o d v<§ra s p o n s o r - e r . . . . - -
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Swedish Comer Cafe/ Restaurant
Sven&. Anira Enocksson
5 . .., cdi$h C.')rr.cr C::ife:Rc$1aur:{:-it
<.•:':'::-~ \0U J ~deci0n 0f >ru~
Sw:-Ci~~ ir;iJith\n:i.1 ::ui$i;ie ~ind imcrn~•ion:i.I l'C'Okinr; in n hc-:i·,,z]\· 2!:Tll~~l'hcrc unique IL'
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Open Saturday • Sunday Monday - Tuesday
Main Street, Tamborlne Mtn.
Ph: (075) 451531 A/hrs: (075) 451517
NOW TWO GREAT LOCATIONS!
FLDRISTINA & FLOWER CORNER
AT THE MYER CENTRE AT WYNNUM PLAZA Queen Street Level Phone 393 3487 Phone 229 9836
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Arrangements*
Boquets*
Living Cards*
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Baskets with flowers. fruit and chocs.*
Credit cards welcome. Delivery all suburbs.
Member of INTERFLORA
17 Veronica St., Unit 2, Copaloba. 4157
Qld. .
Tel. 390 2224
A.h. Managers, Mr. Veikko Systa 286 3721 Mrs. Pirkko S sta
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Other giftideas. such as canefurniture, ceramic pots. baskets, terrariums are just a few examples of what you can find in our caneshop opposite Flower Corner at Wynnum Plaza.
South-East Freeway, Springwood.
Telephone (07) 341 0000
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