state capture on ‘rules to reality’ podcast
In mid February I spoke to Simon Katterl on the underrated ‘Rules to Reality’ podcast.
21 February 2022
field notes
how we turned the ship around
Set in 2029, Assembly for the Future – part of Bleed festival – invites thinkers and artists to address an Australian audience in 2020 to let them know what the future holds.
23 July 2020
bastard pandemic v. bastards
A crisis has its own way of focusing our minds on what matters and what doesn’t. Thoughts on a pandemic.
23 March 2020
when the sky caught fire
It starts a few days ago, with perfectly preserved eucalyptus leaves twirling out of the sky, brittle and scorched. I’m not sure anyone knows how it ends.
1 January 2020
we apologise for the disruption
Former Greens Senator Scott Ludlam was arrested as part of this week’s Extinction Rebellion protests. Here, he explains why.
11 October 2019
the extinction rebels
Instead of looking for hope, look for action.Then, and only then, hope will come. —Greta Thunberg We’ll be less activist if you’ll be less shit. —School Strike 4 Climate placard Bourke Street Mall in central Melbourne is strewn with hundreds of bodies. Shoppers edge past the spectacle trying to work out what’s happening. Police stand at a watchful distance. Commerce in and out of department stores is postponed behind this cheerful shambles of banners and placards, megaphone speeches and sea of sprawled corpses of the theatrically dead. Many of the flags and cardboard signs bear a stylised hourglass in a circle. Weeks after thousands of people brought central London to a standstill under this banner, the Extinction Rebellion has come to Australia. First published at the Monthly It
1 July 2019
This Election, Say Yes To Action On Climate Change, And No To White Supremacists
And here we all are, pencils poised — at least those of us who didn’t already get it over with at prepoll — to pronounce judgement on six years of Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison.
17 May 2019
our fight for digital rights
After the election, the job of unwinding mandatory data retention and the assistance and access mess will be upon us.
17 May 2019
christmas island cruelty theatre
We paid $180m for Scott Morrison to have a press conference on Christmas Island. The blunder could be the most politically costly press conference ever.
3 April 2019
cypherpunks and surveillance power
Let’s go looking for the best examples of how people are building something better, something that delivers on the internet’s original promise. Let’s signal boost the good stuff for a change.
1 April 2019