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Category Archives: democracy
Dry July
What is it about July that inspires abstinence? This winter we’ve had the lowest rainfall in decades, amidst record breaking warm day time temperatures. It seems the weather gods have abstained from sending us any rain. And there’s Dry July, … Continue reading
10 Things To Do In between Croissants
When I was at university I read Simone De Beauvoir’s memoirs and fell in love with the French Existentialists and their subversive lifestyle. It seemed they sat in Parisian cafes long into the night, drinking coffee and cocktails and talking … Continue reading
Posted in democracy, What Are You Reading?
Tagged angst, Art, At The Existentialist Cafe, Bad Faith, Being & Apricot Cocktails, Book Review, croissants, despair, existentialist angst, Existentialists, Freedom, French Existentialism, Life, Paris, philosophy, Sarah Bakewell, Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, The Resistance
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Little Green Cannon Balls
I got a text from my niece recently asking me to help her with her homework: an assignment on migration. It reminded me that I’m a migrant. In fact this year is the 40th anniversary of my family’s arrival in Australia. … Continue reading
The Ninety Percent Club
The other day I was speaking to a group of gynecologists from the USA. This is the kind of thing I get paid to do. They were a very political group, and as part of their conference program in Sydney, had … Continue reading
Posted in democracy
Tagged 1967 Referendum, Australian citizenship, Australian Constitution, citizenship, citizenship test, civil rights movement, compulsory voting, Constitutional Recognition, democracy, electoral law, migration, Recognition Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution., voting
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Get On Your Soap Box
This summer, as you enjoy Christmas carols or the symphony in the Domain, see if you can also spot an old time orator on their soap box in Speaker’s Corner. The tradition of Speaker’s Corner comes to us from London’s Hyde Park, … Continue reading
Posted in democracy, Spirit of Place, Time
Tagged 1932, 1975, communism, Debra Phillips, Egon Kisch, free speech, Gough Whitlam, Governor Game, Governor General Kerr, H.V.Evatt, High Court, Hitler, John Webster, Menzies, Moreton Bay figs, NAZIS, Premier Jack Lang, psychogeography, Reichstag fire, Reverend Bill Crews, Speaker's Corner, Sydney Botanic Gardens, The Domain, Viva Voce’ Soap-Box sculpture
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A Conversation
The USA will soon have a President elected by people who voted for simplicity over complexity. The kind of simplicity that harks back to 20th Century Germany and Italy, Spain and Japan, Austria, Chile and Brazil. The list unfortunately goes on. … Continue reading
Posted in democracy
Tagged BREXIT, childhood versus adulthood, compromise, democracy, fascism, Parliament, political elite, politics, power, simplicity versus complexity, taxation, USA elections
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