GROWING A FOREST OF WORDS about Place & Identity,
SUDDEN MOVEMENT GLIMPSED, A SLIM SNAKE SLITHERING ALONG THE STONEY MULCH, STILL HOT SPRING SO THIS IS EXTRA HEAT AT 7AM STANDING POOL SIDE SURVEYING PLANTS, SO I JUMPED IN THE DEEP POOL, RISING SAFELY, SWUM TO SIDE, PEER AT SAID SNAKE TO EYE ITS SIGNIFICANT MARKINGS SHIMMERY COPPER SKIN TURNING TO OLIVE GREEN, GLISTENING […]
Read More SNAKE CHARMEDOctober 2018 The Australian Labor Party has failed the environment and Australia’s children who are learning not to trust their government ministers to protect them, nurture their potential by the inability to do the honourable think and reduce carbon and methan in the atmosphere. They learn at school, global warming consequences are the destruction of […]
Read More The Tories (LNP) won by dishonourable means.If your ancestors were dispossessed, slaughtered and had their land and their children stolen, would you celebrate the date on which that all began?#changethedate Another Australia Day 26th January long weekend. It was the arrival of the First Fleet of British convicts. 200+ years later I discover my ancient rights and liberties are thwarted by the […]
Read More TO BE AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN PILGRIMInside Story Search 2173 words ESSAYS & REPORTAGE After the battle by Christopher Stuart 28 NOVEMBER 2020 The revelations about the Special Forces challenge one of Australia’s great foundational myths General Angus Campbell, chief of the Australian Defence Force, after delivering the findings of Justice Paul Brereton’s report on alleged war crimes by Australian troops. […]
Read MoreQF1 flew our family beyond grime and litter of Industrial Birmingham history, only Patience tested And rewarded; 2 years of red tape on desks at Australia House To emigrate, to wait, divert my 12 year mind, From dwelling on leaving kith and kin, but relieved of Peer group bullies, though missing Top of the Pops […]
Read More the flying kangaroo retires after 100 years.She did it her way. Virginia Woolf, introduced to me doing Literature at Deakin Uni.
I learned about The Waves.
