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.
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’. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Australia has welcomed almost two million migrants in the past decade, yet housing affordability and wages are in crisis. While families are left struggling to find shelter and fair pay, real estate agents and big business profit from a system that rewards exploitation over community wellbeing.
When quantum technology merges with the machinery of life, the line between biology and computation begins to blur. With biological cubits now functioning inside living cells, humanity stands on the edge of a revolution that could redefine consciousness, memory, and the nature of existence itself.
Excerpt from Confessions of a Mask By Yukio Mishima In the woodblock prints of the Genroku period one often finds the features of a pair…
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…
Many people have heard the term Typhoid Mary, and may have even used it to describe someone who makes other people sick. What few people…
Born in Hartford, Connecticut on 19 July 1814, Samuel Colt was only 11 years old when he became indentured to a farm in Glastonbury, Connecticut….