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Peter Arndt

Peter Arndt is Executive Officer of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission of Brisbane and a Mission Development Officer for the Archdiocese. Before coming to the Commission in 2001, Peter was a science and maths teacher in both public and Catholic systems.

He received the degree of Bachelor of Science and a Diploma of Education from the University of Queensland, a Bachelor of Divinity with Honours from the Melbourne College of Divinity and a Master of Arts from Griffith University.

Peter has many years experience in community grassroots advocacy and activism and in Church social justice action. His principal areas of interest are reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander justice, refugee and asylum seeker rights, industrial relations, human rights in West Papua, and ecological sustainability.

Peter is married with four children.

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Margaret Carswell

			Margaret Carswell is currently the Intercampus Religious Education and Faith Development Advisor at Catholic Regional College in Victoria (which has over 250 staff and educates 2500 students). Her role is to liase with the College's campus RECs/FDCs and to offer personal development. She writes curriculum documents, retreat programs, inservices and acts as a general resource person for staff. Margaret was born into a Methodist family in New Zealand, and later moved to Australia with her husband Garry. She began teaching in Catholic Primary schools, which influenced her journey into the Catholic faith, and later moved into teaching in Secondary schools. She is the author several articles and two books, Sabbath of Sabbaths (co-authored with Joe Fleming) and Teaching Scripture: The Gospel of Mark. Her PhD is on the way metaphors for God are used in Religious Education.