Tuesday August 30, 2011 Frank Furedi The Australian 27 August

Commend Frank Furedi The Australian 27 August 

The past is not history but should be retold as part of our future

Cicero

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child”...

Wednesday March 09, 2011 Food Security - Australia's Future Depends On It

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with others and along those fibres, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects" Montaigne

Food Security is an...

Tuesday March 08, 2011 Land Grab

A Mauritius-based investment fund has made a play for WA farm land by purchasing its first property in what is expected to be up to an 80,000-hectare land grab.

Last week, JPT Capital announced it would launch an $80 million...

Wednesday December 22, 2010 Wake Up Time

When the shearing sheds are silent and the stock camps fallen quietWhen the gidgee coals no longer glow across the outback night

And the bush is forced to hang a sign, 'gone broke and won't be back'And spirits fear to find a way...

Monday December 13, 2010 What Value Do We Put On Telling Our Stories

The recent announcement by the Gillard Government to withdraw its merger funding from the Dororthea MacKellar Poetry Competition defies imagination when you look at the numbers. In the competitions 27th year of operation, $50,000...