Domestic violence within the Australian community is a fairly well-documented instantiation of a much wider global phenomenon. The varieties of domestic violence include the following categories and concepts: physical abuse, sexual abuse,...

One of the fascinating things about postmodernism and postmodern architecture is that the ways in which it self-consciously disassembles and reassembles itself are really nothing more than the ways in which culture (and society) conduct exactly the...

Aboriginal Rock Art in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory.

To even the uninitiated eye, the traditionally strong use of ochres, reds, blacks and yellows in Aboriginal artwork strongly identifies such artwork as being of the...

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Every night across Australia 22,000 teenagers are homeless.

I recently wrote an article about Homelessness in Australia. A part of the inspiration for that article was not just the fact that I am involved with the community sector but...

“A small Central Queensland hospital has been forced to close because of an infestation of potentially deadly redback spiders.” _-_-_-_-_ Redback spiders are venomous with a potentially fatal venom.

“The Bonfire of the Vanities” is of course the book by Tom Wolfe. I am only really familiar with the film adaptation but it is a fine story. Of things Tom Wolfe, the upcoming (2009) film “The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test” is one which I am...

“20 March 2008: For the first time ever, children in Capaculan village in Masbate, the Philippines are celebrating World Water Day on 22 March with clean, safe water thanks to bio-sand filters introduced by Plan.” _-_-_-_-_ One of the members here...

Yet again finding myself mindlessly wandering through the complex labyrinths and tangled hierarchies of meanings, references and so much pointless banter and empty signification of the internet and I stumbled across another fantastic humanitarian...

Advertising is usually that to which we associate pretty well every single one of the seven deadly sins. It has certainly at least taken greed and enshrined it as a virtue, along with the other sins. I was pleasantly surprised when I came across...