Dear Mr Beazley, I hate the fact that for a moment just now, I con­sidered using an alias to write this to you because I now fear speak­ing up in Aus­tralia could land me on a list of sedi­tious intel­li­gent­sia. I hate the fact that even writ­ing that sen­tence evokes images…

“Have you never heard of situ­ation­ism? Or post­mod­ern­ism? Have you never heard of the free play of signs and sig­ni­fi­ers? Yes, we have a bloody band called Joy Division’

Labor is ready to back the fed­eral gov­ern­ment in rush­ing part of new anti-ter­ror­ism laws through par­lia­ment in light of spe­cific inform­a­tion about a threat in Aus­tralia. What art­broken said: “So on the basis of some­thing the gov­ern­ment claims is an imme­di­ate threat to…

Late notice again. Sorry! e_dan reminded me that I’m not as pos­it­ive as I could be about the whole social change thing. As a sign of faith, I’d like to remind every­one that a screen­ing of the Oceania Indy­media News­real 3 col­lec­tion of short and inspir­ing political…

When the music takes my feet, I know I’m alive. The rhythms move me and no matter the pain, no matter the random nature of life and death, youth taken too soon, absurdity and insan­ity, there is life in dan­cing. There is life in the flirt­ing dance I do with Jésus, the…