Meeting Schedules and Special Notices
"AA Australia Unity Recovery Group"
Please come along and share in a meeting with us. Our
meeting commences daily at 8.00 pm EST Sydney Australia or 6.00 am EST New York if you are in the USA. I hope you can relate to those
times re your local area's, if not please contact our admins and they will endeavor to help you best they can.
"AA under the
Southern Cross"
A new group now up and running daily 11.30am Est Sydney Australia or 9.30 pm EST New York USA.
Come join us under the
Southern Cross folks daily on Paltalk.
"The late Broken Hill Jack and Jack Brennan"
In regards to our guest speaker library, we
have just added upon request, two wonderful old icons of our down under AA Fellowship, they are the late Broken Hill Jack from Sydney/Adelaide
and ex pat 'New Yawker', Jack Brennan to the November 2007 block of speakers. They are there for anyone who wants to listen to these
wonderful old gentlemen, the 'late and great icons' of OZ AA. Now, thanks to the internet, their messages will be around for all to
hear...for a long time to come.
"AA Unity Group meetings"
Please join us for the much awaited return of the revamped AA online
Unity meetings. Together with our sister groups on Paltalk, "AA Oldtimers OHIO" and "AA Southern Cross" we are getting together once
a month to promote our Unity and to spread AA's wonderful message of hope to all who needs it.
The start times are Sundays 11.30 am
Sydney Australia, Saturdays 9.30pm New York USA. or London GMT 12.30 am...If you have trouble converting the times, we have a couple
of international time conversion clocks on our first (main) page!
"Big Book Study" Wednesday nights 8 pm EST Sydney Australia
(Wed. morn's 6 am EST NY US, Wed. morn 11.00 am London UK) is now up and running again, commencing from the beginning of the Big Book
and going right through til the last page.
"Archway to Freedom" ........'a walk through the steps'...please watch this space.
For
interested members who really want to get a lot more out of doing the steps please come and attend attend the "Archway to freedom
12 step workshop unity group" scheduled every friday night, from when notification is posted a new course is about to commence. It
will run for an in depth 6 week detailed period. Steve, aka Ism 02 and Debs, aka ximplicxtly are your hosts for the courses. A wonderful
opportunity for all and could well enhance your sobriety!
"Unity GC Minutes" The Minutes of our Group Conscience meetings will
be available to all members via email as soon as our Minute Secretary has prepared them, shortly after each GC meeting is held folks.
NB:
Please view "Meeting room etiquette" or "Group Guidelines" displayed on page 6 of this web site or accessed from the side buttons
on the main page titled 'AA Australia News and Events'
Alcoholics Anonymous Australia Online
"Modem-to-modem or face-to-face, A.A.’s speak the language of the heart in all its power
and simplicity"
" Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus
of modern communication.
Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our
present imagination." - Bill Wilson, Grapevine, November, 1960.
Online
meetings are an excellent supplement to regular f2f meetings but in no way intended to be a substitute for them. In reality, they
afford that extra dimension of catching up on one, any time any hour. More so especially, if an individual is troubled, despairing
and in urgent need of our AA fellowship therapy! - AA OZ Unity Group, November, 2007
Some kindly chosen needy words for those certain times online
Few people have been more victimized by resentments than have we
alcoholics. A burst of temper could spoil a day, and a well-nursed grudge could make us miserably ineffective. Nor were we ever skillful
in separating justified from unjustified anger. As we saw it, our wrath was always justified. Anger, that occasional luxury of more
balanced people, could keep us on an emotional jag indefinitely. These "dry benders" often led straight to the bottle. Nothing pays
off like restraint of tongue and pen. We must avoid quick-tempered criticism, furious power-driven argument, sulking, and silent scorn.
These are emotional booby traps baited with pride and vengefulness. When we are tempted by the bait, we should train ourselves to
step back and think. We can neither think nor act to good purpose until the habit of self-restraint has become automatic.
The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking - The 3rd Tradition