Buddhist Council of Western Australia Inc.

Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women is No. 3 on the list of eight declared United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals, and is strongly supported by the FABC.

One of Australia’s senior monks, Ajahn Brahm, was invited to deliver a speech on Gender Equality at the UN Day of Vesak Convention in Vietnam in May 2014. Unfortunately, Ajahn Brahm was prevented from delivering his speech by a ban imposed by conference organising committee the day before it was due to be given at the Convention. Ajahn Brahm’s paper had been pre-approved by the conference organising committee several months before the event. Read more »

This Buddhist Society of Western Australia’s event was open to the public on Sunday 18 May 2014 at their  centre at Nollamara. The programme for the day at Dhammaloka Buddhist Centre at 18-20 Nanson Way , Nollamara 6061  Western Australia was as follows:

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Hon Mike Nahan MLA
Treasurer; Minister for Energy;
Citizenship and Multicultural Interests
MESSAGE FROM HON DR MIKE NAHAN MLA
MINISTER FOR CITIZENSHIP AND MULTICULTURAL INTERESTS

It gives me great pleasure to extend my very best wishes to the Buddhist
Council of Western Australia and the wider Buddhist community on the
occasion ofVesak2014.
The celebration of Vesak in WA expands each year as Buddhist communities
grow and more members of the wider community discover the benefits of
Buddhism in their daily lives.
Buddhism is the largest non-Christian religion in WA and is a significant and
thriving component of the remarkable diversity that we enjoy in this State. Read more »