by Barbara Lepani | Apr 1, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
Art and Wellbeing There is a burgeoning interest in the intersection between the creative arts and health and wellbeing, as countries all over the world grapple with an ageing population, the growing incidence of mental health problems across all age groups, and the...
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 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 | Feb 9, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
Mridula Amin’s article in ABC Online 9 February points to the way in which the summer bushfires have brought communities together across the political divide between those focused on coal mining jobs and cheap energy prices, and those concerned about the impact...
by Barbara Lepani | Feb 8, 2020 | Commentary, Our Collective
Conflicting Worldviews Barbara Lepani—in her Opinion article on revisioning conservation for the ABC Religion and Ethics Report (18 Dec 2019), Professor Freya Mathews, a patron of the Wild Mountain Collective, also discusses the important difference between the...
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