I remember my Year Eleven Modern History Textbook saying something that rang in my head like the first verse of Roxette’s Listen To Your Heart (Cascade covered it later). The line was, “But that love falls apart.” The line from my history textbook was about the tenuous alliance between the…

During The Voice, there have been numerous people, especially conservatives, who have made disparaging comments about Indigenous Australians and claiming how fair they are. There is an alternative side to this that needs to be considered. If one reads “The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith” by Thomas Kenneally, one will see…

I had a foolish troll, whom I blocked, call me woke and when I told him that I’d take it as a compliment, tell me that I would because I’m woke and told me to wake up. When you are woke you are awake to injustice. I saw a ridiculous…

Before my native Australia legislated to allow same-sex couples to marry, there was a postal survey where 62% of those who voted ticked Yes, and the No Campaign flooded television screens with misinformation. For example, there was an advertisement with three women where one stated that her son was told…

On the night of May 21 last year, the Australian Army could have been forgiven if the door of the barracks had have swung open and a commanding officer had turned on the lights and paraphrased Bob Hawke by saying, “Any MP who court martials someone for being drunk tonight…

At the 2022 Australian Federal Election, the Liberal Party, having failed to heed the lessons of 2019, in the seat of Warringah, decided to parachute in a transphobic candidate, who was a Captain’s Pick, who succeeded in increasing the margin of the first Teal Independent, Zali Steggall. By definition, a…

I remember, 40 years ago, at school, a girl asking me, and giggling at my response to how babies were created. At that time, at the age of 8, my sex education was limited to only married ladies could have babies. I wondered, were babies a lottery of the draw…

Steps’ upbeat song Last Thing on My Mind is about a woman who thought she really knew her life partner, only to have things unexpectedly change and him being, in her words, “Suddenly like a stranger.” We talk about friendships that have stood the test of time, but we have…

100 years before Dr Martin Luther King Jnr delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech, the USA was commencing a civil war, one of the causes of which was slavery. The newly minted US President, Abraham Lincoln, was vehemently opposed to slavery, and he signed the Emancipation Proclamation thereby ending…