On stepping outside and rejoining the world It took me a while, years ago, to come to grips with Audre Lorde's famous dictum that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house". Investing so much of my life, my time, my
"It's more powerful than a legally binding agreement" I have just had the immense privilege of spending the last week in the Yarra Valley on a Global Optimism Climate Leaders' Retreat led by Christiana Figueres - for six years the world's top climate
Posted below is my submission to the Antisemitism Royal Commission. I have thought long and hard about publishing this. I have decided to do so partly because I hope it will encourage others to make submissions. While I am deeply troubled by the highly fraught process that brought us here,
A transformative, liberatory political act of collective refusal and creation. This is a lightly edited transcript of a presentation I gave last night to the Degrowth Network Australia (insta here) as part of its webinar series on Pathways to Degrowth. Thanks so much to the Degrowth Network Australia for inviting
Thinking about One Nation with the help of Rebecca Solnit (and Hannah Arendt) For [many people], the present seems to be perpetual, unchanging, unyielding, offering confidence or despair that the future will be like the present, a conclusion that seems to be drawn from the lack of recognition that the
Ben Roberts-Smith has finally been arrested for war crimes. If our laws and institutions are to have any meaning, then serious breaches, egregious breaches, high-profile and horrifying breaches must have repercussions. The seeming impunity of Ben Roberts-Smith, who has only today been arrested for war crimes the Brereton Report detailed
On seeking direction in a directionless world Moments in time. Movement in time. Movements in time. As we spun past the autumn equinox, the darkness lasting noticeably longer each morning and edging closer each evening, the burst of winter weather turning the screws on my arthritic joints, I spent much
On language, coercion, and action "it is as though we were caught in a maze of abstractions, metaphors, and figures of speech in which everything can be taken and mistaken for something else, because we have no reality, either in history or in everyday experience, to which we can
A short post tonight because I can't go to sleep for thinking about this. I need to write some thoughts to help my mind slow down. And you get to read it. If you choose. Feel free. French President, Emmanuel Macron, standing in front of a nuclear submarine
On practising "soft skills" for a hard future Opposition education spokesperson, Julian Leeser, has apparently decided that the most important issue to weigh into on tertiary education right now is abolishing group assignments.* Funnily enough, I actually went to uni with Julian, at UNSW law school way back
Wonderings on the echoing implications of our relationship with death When I die, compost me. Put me under a tree - a snow gum, if possible - and let it feed. Let the mushrooms and their mycelia unmake me into morsels, into molecules becoming free to become something otherwise. Consider
💚 Zohran and Zack 💚 Is there a symbolism we can find in the fact that these two excitingly energetic, righteously angry, charmingly smiling outsiders shaking up global left politics both have names starting with Z?* Does it mean we've reached the end of the line? That, after this, we