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  • Raising Peace Salon: next one on Monday 9 November

    The Raising Peace Salon is a Zoom meeting every second month to talk about peace. The next one is on Monday 9 November, 7 to…

  • Farewell to Rex Mayer and welcome to new appointments

    The IVP Finance Team is entering a new chapter, with Neo Gerona as Finance Officer and Yang Fan as Treasurer.

  • Our new website is live

    Our new website went live on 17 October 2026 at www.ivp.org.au, with a fresh design and clearer paths to workcamps, membership and news.

  • Margaret and Bob Fagan smiling at the camera, Bob holding a guitar, with their names in large white letters across the bottom.

    Peace concert with Margaret and Bob Fagan

    Margaret and Bob Fagan play a peace concert in Canberra on Sunday 1 November, a fundraiser for the ACT Independent and Peaceful Australia Network.

  • Two young volunteers on stepladders, one giving two thumbs up, putting up quilts on a blue wall.

    SCI’s October 2026 e-zine features IVP Australia

    SCI’s October 2026 e-zine reports positive growth at IVP Australia and lists the Goulburn Show 2027 workcamp, with news from the SCI network.

  • A group of volunteers and local people, some in traditional sarongs and white headwear, sitting and standing on the steps of a decorated temple courtyard.

    SCI 2025 annual report

    SCI’s Annual Report 2025 is out: 116 volunteer camps, 941 volunteers, and funding for IVP Australia’s Peace Across the Sea project.

  • Volunteers in a show pavilion building a display of watermelons, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, apples and cabbages on hay bales and a wooden crate.

    Goulburn Show workcamp 2027

    Spend 13 days with a team of six international volunteers helping put on the Goulburn Agricultural Show, from 27 February to 11 March 2027. Camp…

  • Masthead of the SCI Asian Newsletter, August/September 2026: the SCI logo and title over an antique world map.

    SCI Asian Newsletter 2026

    News from SCI’s branches and groups across Asia: the three Asian Newsletter issues of 2026, with highlights including Rita Warleigh’s Goulburn Citizen of the Year…

  • A market stall table covered with fresh vegetables, including carrots, silverbeet, rhubarb, beetroot and potatoes, with shoppers behind.

    Goulburn Farmers Market

    Fresh local produce on the fourth Saturday of every month at the Goulburn Showgrounds. How IVP helped start the Goulburn Farmers Market, what you’ll find…

  • A cluster of white native Australian flowers with pink centres, against blurred grass.

    Raising Peace

    Raising Peace is an alliance of more than 30 Australian peace organisations, created in 2020 to celebrate 100 years of SCI. Its story, festivals, podcast,…