Woodford Ho!

I’m off to sunny Queens­land for my annual pil­grim­age to revel in the joy of music, sun and friends at the Wood­ford Folk Festival. We’re head­ing up the centre of the NSW through Parkes and Moree which is a route I haven’t done before… should be...

Good night and good luck

Went to see the Edward Murrow film with Matt tonight. Bril­liant film: very well edited, stun­ning dia­logue (even the bits that wer­en’t ver­batim tran­scripts of Murrow). Very timely… espe­cially the subtle com­ment at the end about habeus corpus, because of course...

Letter from Scott Parkin

The US peace act­iv­ist depor­ted from Aus­tralia fol­low­ing a secret determ­in­a­tion that he was a threat plans to chal­lenge this assess­ment and needs funds. For those who don’t know, Scott was on his way to teach a non-viol­ence work­shop when he...