by Eleven Music | Oct 30, 2021 | Article |
There are no climate deniers any more. Whatever anger we feel at the opportunities missed, we still celebrate that the battle of ideas, at least, is won. Now there are climate hawks and climate doves. Hawks see a global emergency and the need to mobilise as if human...
by admin | Jul 12, 2021 | Article |
Originally published by The Guardian Escaping responsibility has become the recurrent theme of the Morrison government. Whether it is the glacial progress of the vaccination rollout, dealing with the megafires two summers ago, or the parlous state of the Great Barrier...
by admin | Nov 15, 2020 | Article |
‘The balance sheet is breaking up the sky.’ PETER GARRETT ‘Blue Sky Mine’, Midnight Oil Originally published in Tanya Plibersek’s book Upturn When the COVID-19 pandemic reached Australian shores, we were on the cusp of a new age. Turbo-charged by a hotter climate, ...
by admin | Oct 22, 2020 | Article |
It starts with lullabies, the most elemental of musical offerings. Then nursery rhymes, hymns sung in church and school choirs, especially carols. One of my favourites was ‘Out on the plains the brolgas are dancing lifting their wings like warhorses dancing...