A bit of a yarn…..
So – I’ve been a bit quiet on this blog of late. It’s been a big semester of work – and I’m in the middle of a long dark stretch […]
So – I’ve been a bit quiet on this blog of late. It’s been a big semester of work – and I’m in the middle of a long dark stretch […]
I’m about to dive into a bit of a whirlpool of activity – almost all of it inspiring and good….. and I’m really just trying to make some notes on […]
Well it’s that fun time of year for casual academics, of no money and nail biting about possible/probably work next year. The guilt-tripping over writing/not writing and mounting credit card […]
Friends have heard me whinge for five long and hard years about my homesickness for the city of sandstone cliffs, frothy waves, and blue skies where I lived for nearly […]
Each time I visit the detention centre, I feel like everything is in high relief. I’m hyper aware of things before hand and a bit manic afterwards. I suppose this […]
This is just a quick post just to note that I haven’t gone to ground. no, not really, I promise. I managed to pull together a nice chapter on precarious […]
This is the text of a lecture I gave at La Trobe University on the topic of asylum seekers. the image is of my slowly emerging crochet protest banner. This […]
Hope is a muscle that needs to be exercised regularly. I said this to my friend at the start of this year. He’d been in detention for 18 months, and […]
Actually, it was an ex-bar, the renovated former Barkly Hotel, which is now host to the west-side Lentil As Anything. I took my friend Ali to show him a place […]
This is an archive of the stuff floating around the interwebs lately. Spread ’em like butter, please. Firstly, some righteous rage, with shots of Footscray from Pataphysics. This is one […]