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Numerous Church news stories about members within the Australia Area are contained in the 'Local Church News' section of the Australian website. Stories that will be printed in the Ensign insert are also displayed here. Click here to view some of the recent stories.
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Completing a twelve-day visit to Australia, Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles expressed to members of the Church that this was an "emotional pilgrimage and privilege" to come to the land of one of his ancestors.
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Brigham Young University's family entertainment group The Young Ambassadors, of Provo, Utah, toured Australia April 26 through May 19, 2008, performing a production called 'The New American Songbook'.
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The Queensland Government reported to the news media that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints boosted the Premier's 2008 Flood Relief Appeal to more than $2 million dollars with its $200,000 donation.
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PROVO: Adam Ruri, of Upper Hutt, New Zealand, who served his mission in Adelaide, was sworn in as student body president of one of the largest private universities in the United States. Ruri, a junior majoring in business management, will represent over 30,000 students at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, USA for the 2008-2009 school year.
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Blake McKeown, popularly known as the 'rookie' lifeguard in Network Ten’s Bondi Rescue, publicly left his post on the beach this May to perform another kind of rescue.
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On Sunday, 16th March, the Annual Relief Society Women’s Conference was held at the Narre Warren Stake Centre organised by the Pakenham Stake, with six stakes being represented.
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As Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered his historic apology to indigenous Australians earlier this year, Latter-day Saint grandmother, Lorna Fejo, watched the televised speech with much emotion.
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Both Albert Hopoate and Tevita Folau have recently returned from faithfully serving their full-time missions. They are now being rewarded for their sacrifices and decisions at the time as they join with several other LDS players in the NRL.
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Jim Turner, a member of Richmond Ward in the Penrith Australia Stake, was awarded for Outstanding Academic Achievement for the Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Music Business, a two-year full-time course, during the Music Industry Graduation Ceremony.
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150 LDS youth spent the first day of autumn this year cleaning up Sydney's Centennial Parklands wearing gloves and the distinctive yellow "Mormon Helping Hands" vests.
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Sister Kelli Morse of the Warwick Branch in Queensland is both a wife and mother, as well as being a visual artist with a recent entry in the prestigious Archibald Prize of a portrait of State Opposition Leader Lawrence Springborg.
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Sydney member Graeme Purcell of South Harbour Ward celebrated recent success while competing in the Australian reality show "So You Think You Can Dance".
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Youth from the Melbourne Braeside Stake spent a weekend in March getting to know each other better, serving their community and developing firm testimonies of the gospel as they participated in the first ever Braeside Youth Convention.
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Pollie Pedal is a yearly event in which politicians, organisations and individuals ride bicycles to raise money for Australian charities. The Church has been involved in supporting Pollie Pedal over the last few years both at the Area and local levels.
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His Excellency Yuval Rotem, as well as Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Leader of the Opposition, Dr Brendan Nelson, spoke at the 60th anniversary of the modern state of Israel. The event was MC'd by Canberra Church member Tara Scott, Personal Assistant to the Consul at the Embassy of Israel.
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A list of recent Priesthood leadership changes in the Australia area for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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A dinner was held in Perth, Western Australia, to honour a good friend of the Church, Federal Member for Cowan, the Hon Graham Edwards MHR, when he was retiring from politics.
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Hannah Evans, a ballet and contemporary dancer in the Bridgetown Branch in Western Australia, recently left for the "big city" of Sydney, where she is now attending The Wesley Institute to further her studies in dance with a Bachelor of Creative Arts dance course.
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In the wake of Queensland's devastating February 2008 floods, the Church and members once again lent a helping hand, making a $200,000 cash donation in addition to hundreds of hours of volunteer assistance alongside trucks of donated goods.
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Brother Charles (Will) Hollis and Sister Elizabeth Grimes of Chermside Ward, Brisbane Australia North Stake, both recently received the Silver Arrowhead Award for Excellent Service to the Scout Association from Her Excellency Quentin Bryce, Governor of Queensland.
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God has given all of us particular gifts that we can develop and use to build His kingdom, and Sam and Linda Hawkins of Perth are utilizing their unique talents, and a novel medium, to share their message.
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David Riley of the Kenmore Ward in the Centenary Stake in Brisbane was recently elected to be Chairman of the Board and President of the Spinal Injuries Association –an organisation that provides services and support for people living with a spinal cord injury.
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Church materials can now be ordered through the Australia Distribution Services Online Store - www.ldscatalogue.com.au.
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Australian Church members were both entertained and inspired by messages from Sister Sheri Dew during her recent speaking tour of Australia in January.
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A list of changes for Australia.
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Jake Mangakahia, formerly of Capalaba ward in the Brisbane Australia stake, is flying high in more ways than one. Not only is his ballet career escalating, but he also has lofty spiritual ideals.
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Come to Single Adult Convention 2008 to be held on the beautiful Sunshine Coast. The convention will begin at 4pm on Friday June 6th, 2008 and conclude on Monday, June 9th, 2008. Click here for further information and how to register.
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The 178th Annual General Conference of the Church was held on Saturday, April 5, and Sunday 6, 2008, in Salt Lake City Utah. Internet audio streams of the conference are available in many languages. An English-only video stream of each session of conference (except general priesthood meeting) is available at www.byu.tv.
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A worldwide leadership training meeting on building up a righteous posterity was broadcast over the Church satellite system on Saturday, February 9, 2008. Online archives are available in text, audio, and video formats.
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The Church Educational System (CES) presented a fireside for young adults on March 2, 2008. The speaker was Julie B. Beck, general president of the Relief Society. Video archives are available on the Broadcast Event page.
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A spectacle of tens of thousands of Christmas lights attracted hundreds of Church members and friends to the Sydney Temple each evening over this past Christmas period.
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Youth and young single adults in the Gold Coast Australia Stake were given the opportunity to serve full-time “mini-missions” in late October. Hosted by President Grant S. Richards of the Australia Brisbane Mission, the young Gold Coasters were assigned to different areas within the Brisbane region and paired with the full-time missionaries to experience mission life for one week.
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Thomas S. Monson was recently called as the new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and his involvement and connections with the Church in Australia have produced many fond memories and inspiring moments for President Monson and others.
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In response to a large number of calls from the news media over the recent USA election excitement, the Australia Area Presidency proactively re-emphasised the Church's long-standing position of party political neutrality in statements widely disseminated to Australian media.
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Several Brisbane Saints this past Christmas have again joined the congregational choir singing the “Messiah” at Brisbane’s downtown Uniting Church in Ann St, continuing a fine tradition now spanning more than ten years.
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During this time of the year, despite intense heat, humidity, plagues of bush flies, threats of flooding and cyclones - members of the Church in the remote Kimberley region of north Western Australia and local communities continue to celebrate Christmas and the birth of our Saviour.
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Siosefa Palu Jr, a Priest in Parramatta Ward, New South Wales, was recently made “Director General of Education for a Day” as a result of his outstanding achievements in school and in life.
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New South Wales Premier, The Hon. Morris Iemma, presented Church leaders Gregory Willson and Michael Young with medallions for "community service during the June 2007 Floods", rewarding their efforts to salvage homes in their communities.
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On 20 November 2007 at the Lyneham Chapel in Canberra, the United States’ Ambassador to Australia, Robert D McCallum Jr., addressed over two hundred members and friends of the Church.
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Sister Pam Mamouney of the Berwick Ward in Melbourne received a public surprise recently when her name was mentioned in the Victorian State Parliament for her dedicated work in the City of Casey Interfaith Network.
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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s latest CD, Spirit of the Season, features baritone soloist Shane Warby, a member of the choir whose Australian ancestor joined the Church in 1853 and later emigrated to the U.S.
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The first missionary of the Church to Australia appears to have been William Barratt, who was ordained an elder in 1840 at the age of 17 in Staffordshire, England. When he left for South Australia that year, the Church was still only ten years old.
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Looking over the scene at Diggers Beach in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, this past spring, it was obvious there was a surf competition on – but there was something very different about this surfing crowd. The vast majority of beachgoers were Latter-day Saints.
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Last August, Saints in Toowoomba, Queensland, celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Toowoomba chapel in this beautiful garden city situated high in the mountains of the Great Dividing Range. An hour-and-a-half west of Brisbane, Toowoomba Ward is the oldest unit in the Ipswich Stake.
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His Excellency Dennis Richardson, Australian Ambassador to the United States, recently met with the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson and Henry B. Eyring - during a tour to address students, faculty and alumni at Brigham Young University's Political and International Relations school.
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Hampton Park Ward of the Melbourne Pakenham Stake presented a memorable Primary program on Sunday, 28th October, in several respects when the children took over the music and conducting, performing parts of the program in their native language, and in front of their local Member of Parliament.
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The sisters of the Fairfield Ward in Melbourne’s Heidelberg Stake recently took on a health and wellbeing challenge as part of their Enrichment program for Relief Society.
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Briony Rymar, a member of the Woodridge Ward in the Australia Logan Stake, won the Lyric Section for the month of June in an international song-writing competition - "Songwriter of the Year." Briony won the contest for her song, "We Can’t Be Friends."
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A list of leadership changes for the area in December 2007.
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Australia Area Leadership changes during November 2007.
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A pink breakfast seemed a suitable and novel way to help raise money for research into breast cancer, and several members recently gathered at the Townsville chapel in Gulliver, Queensland, to enjoy the imaginative pink egg sandwiches, watermelon, pikelets with pink cream, and pink Tim Tams in behalf of this worthy cause.
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BRISBANE: Saturday, 25 August 2007, was a night to remember when 56 elderly Latter-day Saints held a 'Back to Gibbon Street days' reunion at the Kangaroo Point meetinghouse in Brisbane.
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The Weekend Bulletin newspaper on the Gold Coast recently featured an article profiling the decision made by a number of Church members not to play their sport on a Sunday.
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It's not every day you have triplets baptised into the Church, but that is what happened on Sunday, 9th September, when ten-year-olds Sarah, Ryan and Renae Leighton became members of the Northam Branch in the Dianella Stake in Western Australia.
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Murdoch University's School of Law was recently presented with two additional volumes of ancient Islamic texts translated into English at Brigham Young University in Utah.
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Twelve returned missionaries who served in the Australia Perth Mission in 1977 under former mission president, the late Bruce J. Opie, met near the Melbourne Temple for a 30-year reunion last August.
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Three prominent leaders in politics, business and academia inspired over 120 Church youth and adults recently at an “Achievement Fireside” held by the Canberra Stake
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Over 400 people attended the recent Family History Expo held at Warwick Stake Centre, Western Australia. The Expo featured a variety of ways to trace ancestors and add names to the Family Tree, and several dignitaries visited the event.
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Sister Merekaraka Caesar of the Gold Coast in Queensland recently returned from being a guest speaker at 'The Congress of Planetary Initiatives: Towards Eliciting a Global Conversation - Congress 2007', which was held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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A Welfare Gala day was hosted by Holland Park Ward of the Brisbane Australia Stake on Saturday 14th July for Church members and the community.
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A list of changes during the month of October 2007.
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A simple family home evening activity at a climbing gym started Stephanie Hopkins on her amazing six-year career in the novel sport of rock climbing.
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As part of National Family History Week, the Pakenham Stake held an open day and seminar at the stake centre in Narre Warren North.
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On the 25th August 2007, and as part of the nation’s 'Helping Hands Day', Kalgoorlie branch members planned an amazing day of service, but only after some of the brethren first got together for an early morning game of basketball.
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The Gosford Ward of the Australia Newcastle Stake accepted an invitation from the New South Wales Central Coast Family History Society to attend its annual family history show held during the Australia National Family History Week.
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Members of Melbourne wards once again opened their doors with special invitations to the community during National Family History Week 2007, held between the 4th-12th August 2007.
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The Relief Society sisters of Pakenham Stake, Victoria, recently attended a Women’s Day Conference with the theme "Grow Where You Are Planted", which coincided with National Tree Day.
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Over a period of two weeks in August, members of Winston Hills Ward in the Sydney Greenwich Stake collected 120 cans of food, 60 books and other helpful items for the Parramatta Mission, which runs a food kitchen in Parramatta.
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The Pitman name is as synonymous with policing as it is with the Church in the state of Queensland, and both institutions have benefited tremendously from the contributions of the dedicated members of this family.
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Multiculturalism was the theme of Sydney Mortdale Stake's Annual Ball this year as guests arrived dressed in different traditional clothing.
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Over 120 budding artists descended on Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital in a community effort to paint a mural for mental health as part of the Church's 'Helping Hands Day'.
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