Hunters Hill, Sydney’s Lothlorien For Sydneysiders who grew up west of Chatswood, Hunters Hill took on an almost mythical quality. It is the seventh richest suburb in Australia. In the 80s, us (alleged) westie kids saw it as an untouchable land of Disney castles. When school sport afforded you a passport to cross the invisible …
Continue reading “Should the Crown hand back the Boronia Park foreshore? The case for Yes”
The New England region of NSW (Kamilaroi/Gomeroi Country) politically, lies somewhere to the right of mainstream Australian Toryism. They keep returning Barnaby Joyce after all. Conservative Australia is notoriously extra conservative in all matters pertaining to drug law reform. Especially cannabis. The drug most regularly blamed by shock jocks as the reason why some people …
Continue reading “Of dignity, grace and a goal kicked: Thank you Lucy Haslam.”
If you are time poor, confused by the media and sick of the ugliness or just want Saturday to be over with (and also wish to feel you’ve done the right thing), run this Yes/No list of questions past yourself If you’re undecided or a soft No voter for any of the above reasons, here’s …
(Guardian-owned image) Pill Testing is essential in upcoming likely festival heatwave conditions: the summer calculus of risk has changed. Another summer littered with the premature and preventable deaths of young people. Another summer where the NSW government, armed with sound coronial findings and decades of expert advice, appears set to stall on implementing some very …
By far and away the most common expression of anguish I hear from workers who are prescribed medicinal cannabis products is a fear that, if workplace and roadside drug testing laws doesn’t hurriedly adapt, they will be back on a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) for life. The thought fills some of them with terror. …
Bob was born in the UK in 1965. He emigrated with his folks as a ‘ten-pound pom’ to Western Australia in 1970. Bob’s old man qualified for the scheme as a welder, perhaps because the Western Australian sons of the Squattocracy were fast at extracting wealth from the land but lacked muscle in building things. English Northerners …
Wallumettagal Country (Eastwood, NSW). Brush Farm House and Brush Farm Corrective Services Academy. Historically part of the Field of Mars Grant of 1792. The first lands granted by the British Crown to Royal Marines in 1792 and to privates of the NSW ‘Rum’ Corps in 1794. First Country Stolen. After 235 years of being lied …
It has been a while since I’ve had time for any writing writing. Whatever Twitter’s current character limit is about as far as I’ve made it. Enjoy Once Were One Colony at The Spinoff.
Being tapped on the shoulder to appear on breakfast radio is pretty much a compulsory reason to post a new entry, albeit due to time constraints, a brief and scattered one. I, along with the indefatigable Jason Frost from Defence Shed Wagga Wagga appeared on 702ABC Sydney’s breakfast show with Wendy Harmer and Robbie Buck …
Whilst the Australian public have belatedly accepted the notion of cannabis as medicine, its ongoing status as an illegal drug is still giving rise to unjust outcomes for those unfortunate enough to fall afoul of the law during these supposed End Days for Cannabis Prohibition. Gavin* (assumed name) is a fit and healthy 18-year-old man …
Mat Henderson