I’m at the tail end of a marking tunnel…. and I have many tales to tell. Finishing the final batch of policy 101/Bacchi analysis Begging for chocolate and thinking of […]

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 […]

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 […]