Month: July 2023

Humans as Weapons of Mass Destruction

The Nuclear Atomic Age Born in 1946, I am a child of the Atomic Age whose birth was so vividly displayed in the film, Oppenheimer. Here we see the tragic consequences of the interplay between human ingenuity—the scientific quest; human greed and fear—war and conflict over territory and resources; and human pride—the triumphalism of scientific [...]

Catchy Reflections in the Dappled Light

Argentina Mon Amour She had come in innocent curiosity, a description which suited her nature too. In Buenos Aires. I also captured by that land had discovered this one surprisingly in the sultry, old back waters of La Boca, in amongst the taverns and brothels of the port.  I, a mere seeker, looking back now [...]

Relationism & the Circular NFP Economy

DeGrowth Week Webinars Yesterday 10 July, I tuned into the DeGrowth Week of webinars being offered by NENA (National Economy Network Australia) and caught up with Donnie Maclourcan, an Australian with links to UTS who is now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and who is the Executive Director of the international Post Growth Institute. I’m [...]

Questions of Identity—Australian Indigeneity

Of the 250 recognised language groups in Australia, many do not live on their ancestral Country, with 37 percent living in our urban areas, especially our capital cities where they speak only the English language. The greatest number (34 per cent) of Indigenous Australians live in NSW, but where they comprise only 3.4 percent of [...]

The Search for Identity in a Hybrid World – My Story

Hybridisation In this age of globalisation and multiculturalism, the question of one’s cultural identity has become problematic. Many of us are untethered from the place of our ancestors, either by personal design or by displacement due to wars and societal collapses. Many of us are the children of transplants from other cultures, both recent and [...]

Settler Transplants in Australia’s Ancient Soil

Australia’s Cultural Soil Indigenous people did not think of themselves as ‘Australians’ but as members of groups bound by a common language and shared cultural norms and values that prescribed their worldview and knowledges about their known ‘world’, including neighbouring language groups with whom they traded. Today they are recognised as members of the oldest [...]