
Red Dust Entry Four: Kicking Up Dust
“This is how we do it,” Aunty Nandy would tell me, teaching me to make island scones or cook enough rice and yam for a horde of hungry dancers…
In Queensland, it seems the further north you go, the slower things become. The people run on what we call ‘island time’…
I couldn’t help but think that these paramedics, doctors and nurses might just have been the best act of the day…
… on what being Australian means in 2014…
Debra Barry thought the abuse she had routinely endured was normal until the age of 14…
“We’re unashamedly a single issue party,” sayd Dr Philip Nitschke…
For what must be the millionth time I hear the sentence more likely to provoke infinite rage than any other, “I would never have guessed you were anorexic”…
It’s amazing, the confidence of these children to physically communicate with absolute strangers…
In Queensland, it seems the further north you go, the slower things become. The people run on what we call ‘island time’…
… on what being Australian means in 2014…
Just how much has money got to do with campaigning and the democratic process in Australia? The simple answer is ‘lots’…
Described as the ‘greatest pharmaceutical disaster in history’, the Thalidomide morning-sickness pill tragically changed the lives of many families…
I am happy I am me… warts and all…
It has been fascinating watching citizen journalism develop at a time when all the tools for content creation and publication are in the public’s hands…
A simple guide for DSLR users…
When you get it right, a photograph can draw people in, emotionally and intellectually…