Ruling class, anyone?

by | Mar 13, 2007 | Uncategorized

Israel’s min­is­ters just keep get­ting caught. I kinda feel sorry for this guy, but he really should have known better. Drunk? And where was the person who, pre­sum­ably, tied him up? If it wasn’t someone he really, really trus­ted, then what was he, as...

Happy International Women’s Day

by | Mar 8, 2007 | Uncategorized

I’d like to take this oppor­tun­ity to cel­eb­rate some of the women in my life who have influ­enced me. My mother, who taught me to stand up and speak out, who took me to my first peace marches, who kept loving me even when I was impossible, who wrote to...

Creating community: longterm lessons?

by | Mar 4, 2007 | Uncategorized

I’m not sure what to make of the riots in Copen­ha­gen. For those who haven’t heard, the Danish police entered a squat­ted build­ing that had been used as a youth centre for more than 25 years, and evicted the squat­ters. Why? Because, in 2000, a...

Young people today

by | Feb 2, 2007 | Uncategorized

I had a young friend come to stay with me for three days this week. Aged nine, he flew down unac­com­pan­ied from Can­berra because it was the last week of school holidays. Having him here was grand, des­pite my emo­tional tur­moil around per­sonal issues. There...