After tragedy, grief is quickly hijacked by blame. Votes are counted, ideologies accused, and humanity lost in the noise. But violence is not a referendum, and collective guilt solves nothing. What matters is courage, evidence, and a media culture that informs rather than inflames.
Travelling companions aren’t always pleasant. If you are forced to sit beside someone who is obnoxious or smelly or you aren’t in the mood to…
Margs people or ‘Margites’ as I affectionately call them will get a kick out of a newby (a Maggot) who was annoyed about what sounded…
A bunch of really special people start chopping and slicing at the Margaret River Soup Kitchen every Wednesday morning in preparation for the 5.00 pm…
The Cowaramup Bullshed is the ‘Men Shed’ for the Margaret River region. Apparently others are planned for Margs itself and there is also one at…
I always wanted to open a bakery…if I win lotto I will and call it ‘This Day’…as in ‘give us this day our daily bread’. …
The Swan Newspaper is going south…specifically the South West of Western Australia. We will be telling stories about the great southern region, its history and…
In a blistering April 2025 address, historian Vijay Prashad tears apart the “China threat” storyline, calling Australia a slavish ally to U.S. power and branding today’s tech sanctions a “third opium war”. If Beijing isn’t preparing to invade anyone, why is Canberra spending billions and sailing U.S.-led patrols? This piece asks whether Australia has ever truly had an independent foreign policy — and what it would take to get one.
Writing a script for a movie based on real events. Synopsis: The 39th begins in the thick of World War II, where Sergeant Frank leads…
Walking down a laneway you see a beautiful, fluid design, a calligraphic masterpiece as awe inspiring as anything you’ve seen in the Getty, Guggenheim, Louvre…
In the context of an attempt to slap our beloved nation in the face with the shame it deserves for its past and present treatment…
In an unexpected turn of trans-Tasman events, Australian officials — none of whom exist — have proposed a bold new initiative: making New Zealand the 7th and final state of Australia. The move, inspired by a slightly louder American campaign to absorb Canada as its 51st state, is being described by experts as “either a drunken idea from a Melbourne pub, or the finest satire since The Castle.”
With reference to Plutarch’s Life of Brutus In the quiet after terror, when the ghost of Caesar has vanished from Brutus’s tent, Cassius delivers a…