Articles by Zeny Giles

Cassie and Jackson give the Grandmothers new heart IMAGE Aurora

Cassie and Jackson give the Grandmothers new heart

March 07, 2018 Comments

I am a member of Grandmothers against Detention of Refugee Children ‒ you may have seen us holding a vigil each Thursday at 5.00pm at the edge of Newcastle’s Civic Park opposite the City Hall.

A call for peace on Hiroshima Day IMAGE Aurora

A call for peace on Hiroshima Day

August 03, 2016 Comments

I was 20 when I first saw the Hiroshima Panels at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the late 1950s. The searing images drawn by Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi show men, women and children dying in the terror that followed the dropping of the first atomic bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.