Sorry Means Accountability: A Sorry Day Essay
Every year on the 26th of May, Australia observes National Sorry Day. Flags are lowered. Speeches are made. Politicians stand at podiums and invoke the language of healing, reconciliation, and national renewal. The word “sorry” is…
The Country Remembers
Before the word sorry was even possible,
the country already knew what had been taken ...
The Dance of the Seven Veils
After Oscar Wilde's Salomé – – –The court is lit with torchlight and imported wine.Herod sweats beneath his crown of compromise. Once – this is the part he doesn't say aloud –he stood in a river…
Australia: The Death of the Lucky Country
Mediocrity in government and business is destroying Australia in the public sector. Participation awards have suddenly become something of value.
She Speaks, But No One Listens: A Lament of the Old Country
I am old.
Older than the names they gave me,

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