A teaching colleague quit today because their wage couldn’t pay the bills. Meanwhile $127,000 farewell party for vice-chancellor while students ‘sit on the floor’ theguardian.com/australia-ne…
While mourning the tragic deaths on the #Titan #sub, I’d like to also pay my respects to another 80 migrants who died while asking for a better life. npr.org/2023/06/22/118384280…
#Woke isn’t #McCarthyism and it takes dialogue to appreciate the difference. theage.com.au/by/yannick-tho…
Had the privilege of talking with #RossStevenson about war memorials on #Rossrecommends 22 mins in aus01.safelinks.protection.o…
Fascinating website analytics: wrote a climate change piece titled ‘Doom Porn,’ awhile back, easily my most popular post, but ‘view time on page’ averages 00:00:01. Cross reference that with demographic data and I have to ask: folks in Ohio, Missouri and North Carolina: RuOK?
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s statements on Ukraine and the West: 'Don't push us into the corner' sound eerily like the beginning of the beginning, no? apple.news/AwuBDGnDvQGy9Qdcj…
Anyone else feel like Underworld & Iggy Pop here capture the nervy vibe of #Melbourne’s longest #lockdown in the world youtu.be/KmJWD9jQvhc via @YouTube
To the hooligans still ‘protesting’ lockdowns under the Australian flag: patriotism is not measured by anger but through service to your fellow citizens. #GetVaccinated
To Melbourne #lockdown #protestors at the #Shrine of Remembrance: how dare you try to reframe your tantrum as a noble sacrifice! Today’s earthquake was caused by our war dead turning in their graves. theage.com.au/national/victo…
Australian Government changes to funding support for #university #education makes teaching humanities in this country feel bleak. When we devalue the study of what it means to be human, we diminish humanity itself.
Did white Australia’s embrace of Dark Emu reveal the depth of our Eurocentrism? Were we eager to recast Indigenous Australia in our own image? theage.com.au/national/debun…
This story about my family’s experience of the 2019 bushfires has just won the international New Millennium Writing Award for Nonfiction. newmillenniumwritings.org/le…
Check out my latest article: How and Why Artists Handle Rejection linkedin.com/pulse/how-why-a… via @LinkedIn
reflexfiction.com/hidden-fla… My flash fiction didn’t win the big prize. Don’t care. I believe the story’s worth something more precious: your time. As always, I thank you for it.
When we devalue studying what it means to be human, we diminsh humanity itself.
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