Obituary for Bruce Beaver

I was sift­ing through some old poetry e‑mails trying to find some details about an upcom­ing fest­ival when I spot­ted some­thing I’d missed. Bruce Beaver appar­ently died on Feb­ru­ary 17 (see John Tranter’s SMH obit­u­ary here). He was a great poet and...

Aargh

I am so dis­il­lu­sioned and frus­trated at the moment. I can’t believe the Israelis thought killing a para­ple­gic spir­itual leader was going to help the peace pro­cess. I can’t believe I live in a coun­try where our PM thinks it’s...

Take care of her, Niels

It’s 2pm. That means dai­syn­erd just got on a plane to go live in Hol­land with her won­der­ful part­ner, Niels. She’s been my best friend for the last five years or so, since I moved down here, and I’m torn between being so happy that my friend has found...

Image politics

I hate the fact it’s all about the sur­face, but Lind­say Tanner (Oppos­i­tion Com­mu­nic­a­tions Spokes­per­son, used to be a journo) is debat­ing Ross Cameron (Fed­eral Par­lia­ment­ary Sec­ret­ary). I’m not a huge Labour fan, but they’re better than the...