Turn down the temperature

How can Australians deal with growing anger

The attack on Helen Haines was a shocking development in Australian public and political history. The Prime Minister is right to call for ‘turning down the temperature’, but it’s easy to say and hard to do.

Here are some thoughts about acknowledging anger and turning down its temperature.

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The Melbourne Assembly

What kind of future are we moving toward for the city of Melbourne? What do we value? What do we long to see?

Sponsored by the University of Melbourne and The Age ‘The Melbourne Assembly’, is on this week.

Back in August I shared some thoughts and point to a gigantic missing piece in the program

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Signs of the Times: 3 Troubling Developments

Barbaric practices and evil colour coding are no longer the nightmares from a long and forgotten age. They are once again with us and prevalent and even praised. We don’t need to look for enemies outside and in the beyond when we are often our own worst enemy…

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Consent in sex is essential (And sex needs more than consent for it be good)

The subject of consent in sex has come to the fore again this week, both with stories in Australia and in the United States.

In this piece I argue that consent is essential and sex needs more that just consent for it to be safe and good. Click on the graphic to read