by phoenix | Nov 15, 2015 | Poetry, Political
It is 10.40pm in Paris and they have taken hostages at the Bataclan It is 11pm and somewhere on Facebook a kid posts: “they are killing everybody. one by one.” It is 4pm in Melbourne and my friend is giving birth to a little boy named Clancy but I...
by phoenix | Aug 30, 2012 | Political
The Charlotte Dawson case, which has now resulted in her hospitalisation, says a lot about the way that women are treated in social media spaces and the divergent tactics that are used to address the issue. Let’s leave aside for a moment the equally complex...
by phoenix | Dec 8, 2010 | Political
Whenever I’ve raised the complex interactions I see around the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, I find myself mired in defending my position. If I say I support his work and that I welcome the new world where governments cannot collude in...
by phoenix | May 8, 2005 | Political
At Easter, it has become traditional to converge at the Baxter Detention Centre near Port Augusta in South Australia to protest against the inhumane mandatory detention of refugees in Australia in contravention of our international obligations. There were about 500 of...
