Tear, anger, frustration don’t easily surface with an 83-year-old, but come they do. Perhaps let me start with a Graham Greene novel I read many years back and. ‘The Quiet American’ written as an [...]
I was at a medical centre recently and sitting next to me was a young lady who was waiting to get her GP’s report from her oncologist. There she was with a brightly coloured tee- shirt and [...]
Having recovered from a bout of Covid that seemed to lay me low for well over a week, I was indeed ready to get back to doing something that took me away from the negative that can so easily [...]
Tears, anger, frustration don’t easily surface with an 83-year-old, but come they do. Perhaps let me start with a Graham Greene novel I read many years back and. ‘The Quiet American’ written as [...]
Hello Benjamin, I speak to you as one who appreciates our friendship but realise that it may be on the line of what I am about to say about Israel’s actions on Palestine. I am appalled and deeply [...]
If we hold up the flag of Peter Dutton and his ilk it would mean, we will forever be tarred with the tag of racism that will denigrate the good we still have to offer a troubled world. That world [...]
We white folk don’t have to hide behind a mask like a youth, tough yet isolated, swaggering down Redfern in a two-dimensional dusk just killing time, to hide our true feelings. The general [...]
“We are not a racist country.” Michaela Cash, Peter Dutton and their followers are shouting this mantra from their guarded rooftops, believing, and dearly hoping that the Yes campaign will fail. [...]
I want to welcome you all. Today is so very special. In fact it is well over four decades in the making. But for Gerard and Rauli the moment has come when they can reveal in the most public of [...]
I know that we live in troubled times. We do our best to cope. In a sense that is the story of life. Yet in our more serene and positive moments we discover something truly precious. We discover [...]
