He was born so as we could shop, right?

Pretty much the only science there is today is conducted by the imperatives of industry — money. Can this model of capital-led research pro...

After four years writing my doctorate Walking for food: Regaining permapoesis , and two more years researching and writing The art of free ...

I wrote my doctorate paid for by public money, so (in memory of Aaron Swartz and in the spirit of Creative Commons ), I make it available h...

1. Pat Barker. The Ghost Road , Penguin Books, 1996, pp143-144 Daily Telegraph

Letter to elders Keeping chickens New flag Obedience Queensland Click on an image to make it bigger.

Damaging technics, greed and narrow self-interest, inducing policies of abuse and genocide that are still in effect? Click for bigge...

Recently published in Arena .

Plumwood Mountain , an Australian journal of ecopoetry and ecopoetics, recently published its inaugural issue. According to the journal...

Hi there, if you hadn't already got the news I'm hanging around over at the Artist as Family blog  for the next year while we condu...

Packing up the house today. About to leave on a year's adventure . Dipping into old notebooks. Stopping on this page. From fifteen years...

During my doctoral research I got to know William Buckley pretty well. As I was scouring material on him a friend, Maya Ward , recommended ...

There has been a resurgence of thought about Aboriginal seasonality in these parts. My friend Tanya Loos recently launched in Daylesford her...

Publishers who understand ecological crises, monetary damage, and the imperatives of radical change. Publishers open to new models for huma...

For a while now I've wanted to make a boomerang. A recent trip to Gariwerd became the perfect time to do it. I took a few basic tools ...

Zeph and I joined the Victorian home educators  camp at Halls Gap in the Grampians this week. We came with a community friend Gabe and the t...

There is a colourful stoush going on at Overland about: PLAGIARISM:– More virulent than MODERNISM More critical than POST–MODERNISM Re...

Taking our eleven year old, Zephyr, out of school has been a long-awaited blessing and I'm slowly developing a teaching method which is ...

Numerous birds come into our garden and share the bounties there. Some are rare and singular, others in great numbers come daily. Occassion...