And, once again, material politics melts into air... Argh. I'm so unsurprised. But I'm still so disappointed. Left populism, if not directed with great care and passion towards material campaigning, towards working on the ground to improve people's lives, swiftly gets caught up in
The return of the bogong moth migration has been a hot topic in my circles recently. I imagine many of yours, too. In many of the conversations, we've acknowledged how we're clinging to this bright ray of ecological optimism, hoping desperately that it's a
Shoebridge over troubled Waters? A huge earthquake in environmental politics happened in Australia today. And no, I don't mean the change in Greens leadership. Important as this event is - and I wish Larissa Waters all the very best with her health and David Shoebridge and Steph Hodgins-May
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of chatting for I think the third time with the folks on the Sustainable Hour podcast. Previously, I'd talked with them about politics, and about my book. I don't think any of us were quite prepared for
On the transformative experience of being on country "What started as a task to stop a mine has evolved into a quest for freedom for my clan with the now 5 year old Autonomous tribal clan estate of Waddananggu." Gurridyula (Coedie) MacAvoy Time moves differently on country. When
Brief thoughts on letting go of the centre's hold And if he finds himself yearning For his throne on the silly side Nothing wrong as long as he's learning Going for a walk under the lovely blue sky, trying to wrap my head around the various
On stopping to love the flowers in a world on fire I'm riding home from a meeting. My mind is bouncing around between what we just discussed that I need to get on with doing and some annoying bureaucracy I have to push through so I can get
They've all come to look for America "Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping I'm empty and aching and I don't know why What do you get for the Empire that has everything, on its 250th
A spore-radical transformation (with apologies to Kafka) Mushrooms were popping up all over the city the morning Elon Samsa awoke to discover he was The Beatles. He was John, Paul, George, Ringo, and George Martin, too! He was the strawberry and the fields. He was a hundred trillion Pennies
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 negotiator
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,