And you are listening

by | Nov 15, 2015 | Poetry, Political

It is 10.40pm in Paris and they have taken host­ages at the Bataclan It is 11pm and some­where on Facebook a kid posts: “they are killing everybody. one by one.” It is 4pm in Mel­bourne and my friend is giving birth to a little boy named Clancy but...

Another rape in cyberspace

by | Aug 30, 2012 | Political

The Char­lotte Dawson case, which has now res­ul­ted in her hos­pit­al­isa­tion, says a lot about the way that women are treated in social media spaces and the diver­gent tac­tics that are used to address the issue. Let’s leave aside for a moment...

I’m a feminist and I support Wikileaks

by | Dec 8, 2010 | Political

Whenever I’ve raised the com­plex inter­ac­tions I see around the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, I find myself mired in defend­ing my position. If I say I sup­port his work and that I wel­come the new world where gov­ern­ments...
Baxter Detention Centre Protest, Easter 2005

Baxter Detention Centre Protest, Easter 2005

by | May 8, 2005 | Political

At Easter, it has become tra­di­tional to con­verge at the Baxter Deten­tion Centre near Port Augusta in South Aus­tralia to protest against the inhu­mane man­dat­ory deten­tion of refugees in Aus­tralia in con­tra­ven­tion of our inter­na­tional obligations. There...