by Barbara Lepani | Mar 30, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
Baird is well known to many of us as the host of the ABC’s talk show, The Drum. However, she is also an historian and writer, author of Victoria, a biography of Queen Victoria, which critics have hailed as a triumph. In her recently published, Phosphorescence, Baird...
by Barbara Lepani | Mar 22, 2020 | Our Collective
Dream We are all familiar with the way dreams speak to us in strangely assembled images, drawn from the past, interspersed with our fears, and projected into our future. There is even the ‘science’ of travelling through space and time with lucid (consciously aware)...
by Barbara Lepani | Mar 10, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
Defenders of Western Civilisation As Wollongong University charges ahead with its Ramsay Centre of Western Civilisation, and associated BA in Western Civilisation, at the behest of the champions of the British empire like Tony Abbott, we can only hope that this will...
by Barbara Lepani | Mar 8, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
When I tuned into the Q&A program that kicked off 2020 with an exploration of what we are calling our Black Summer of catastrophic bushfires, one of the speakers was Victor Steffensen, one of the founders of the Aboriginal Firestick Alliance. Victor’s voice was...
by Barbara Lepani | Mar 6, 2020 | Our Collective, Quote of the Week
Lorraine Shannon—Quotes for March As those of us who survived the fires with homes and families intact start to settle back into so-called normal life, it is impossible to ignore the impact the fires have had on communities, local businesses, the tourism industry and...
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