One Body, Four Confessions: The Arabian Nights and Social Cohesion
It is the unexpected events that criss-cross our days that draw a multicultural society together, more than ethnicity or faith.
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April 4, 2026
The Last Light and the First: A Poem for Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday
I. The Upper RoomThey gathered where the lamplight held the night at bay,and bread was broken gently into willing hands.A teacher poured out wine as dark as fading day,and love…
April 3, 2026
Political Quandary: One Nation’s Surge in Labor’s Leadership Vacuum
With the liberal party in tatters and Labor floundering under Albanese's spineless leadership, One Nation fills a dangerous void.
April 2, 2026
Are You Sleeping?
A Round on the Ownership of the World(after Frère Jacques)"How can a god give what a god does not have?– and what has god ever possessed, that was not first…
April 1, 2026
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IHRA, the Australian Public Service and Silencing Political Dissent
Enforcing a disputed political definition in the public service sets an implicit bias that will affect public policy and relations both local and international.
March 31, 2026
The Long Unravelling: Alternative Facts, a Democratic Emergency
Democracy must grow beyond the blight of the performative and blind tribal loyalty through genuine accountability to rebuild voter trust.
March 29, 2026
Manufactured Hatred: Hate Speech, Islamophobia and the Fracturing Australian Society
The persistent lack of accountability for the vilification of Muslims threatens to undermine the foundations of equality that form the fabric of our society.
March 28, 2026
Spirit of the Age: Australia, Islam, and Honest Reckoning
Australia's future lies with those who are working constructively to build a more mature multicultural society.
March 27, 2026
The Machine That Never Stops: War, Capital and the Unending Carnage of Modern Conflict
Rather than an ideological difference of opinion, war is machine, an indictment of man's lack of insight and humanity.
March 26, 2026
Witness: Alice Seeley Harris and the Camera as Conscience
A post on photography, empire, and moral Witness
March 25, 2026
The Unravelling Sky: War, Power, and the Expendable Millions
Old men at the end of their lives send young people at the beginning of theirs to fight and die for something they have no say in .
March 24, 2026
My Pipe Dream for Humanity
Before the first word was spoken, before the first hand pressed ochre into stone, we were iron and carbon ...
March 23, 2026
Sparks in the Abyss – Humanity, Honour, and Hope in the Great War
Accounts from the First World War demonstrate that even in the hells of the trenches humanity was not completely lost.
March 23, 2026
Valedictory: Rhoda Ann Roberts AO Returns to the Dreaming
An Indigenous woman, a luminary, a creator. We are the lesser for her loss.
March 22, 2026
From Arnhem Land’s River to the Sea
Between the Glyde’s brown pull and the Arafura’s breath,where saltpan cracks like sentences half-said,I walk the country that was old before our clocks,and learn to read a language without thread.The…
March 21, 2026
Iran’s Enduring Splendour: Refuting the Myth of Persian Barbarism
Iranian culture across the arts transcends the myth of Persien barbarism.
March 21, 2026
Populist Politics: Australia’s One Nation and the American Warning
Australia must learn from the deterioration of democratic freedoms of the United States and defend the freedoms of individuals and independence of the courts.
March 20, 2026
The Collapse of American Liberal Democracy
The slide of the United States to an autocratic state reflects a broader trend across the world.
March 19, 2026
“Taking Cuba”: US-Cuba Relations under the Trump Presidency in 2026
Trump's comments signal a coercive policy intended to force Cuban leaders to open to U.S investment by sacrificing the security of the Cuban people.
March 18, 2026
The Christchurch Mosque Attacks
Having faced on the worst terrorist events in recent times, Aotearoa has become an example for the world of inclusion after horror.
March 17, 2026