Well, most of the thinking public should be very well aware that war is a hell of a bad thing. In many ways it is the conglomeration of everything bad and evil that humanity is capable of. Unfortunately, war seems to be a necessary evil in so many...

The global economic downturn is hitting all of us in one way or another; we may find ourselves performing something less than our dream occupation to pay the bills and make ends meet. Having recently been temporarily employed in a socially...

Several days ago, a group of bikies travelling to Sydney began an altercation on a plane. Mobile phones were used to call reinforcements and by the time they arrived at Sydney Airport there were some 20 wild men ready to fight, as it turns out, to...

We are currently enduring a global financial crisis. A crisis, it must be said, borne largely on the wings of corruption, mismanagement, incompetence and greed. The psychological dimensions of such malevolent activity are strikingly obvious. I am...

“It’s coming around again the slowly creeping hand of time and it’s command...” So begins the lyrics of a song I have always enjoyed - “These Days” by the Australian band Powderfinger. The song (although not a...

I have a good friend who is from Zimbabwe. Whenever we talk about the country, her eyes seem to almost well up with tears and she so clearly misses the land of her birth, a land she describes as so beautiful, so bountiful. She will likely never...

“How can we be sure that we are not impostors ?” - Jacques Lacan Ever since Lacan it has been common enough to understand our Self as being a psychological entity defined reflexively through the image(s) we perceive, interpret or project upon the...

The Somme, WW1 Conflict. While I do not think that letting select issues just “fly under the radar” will solve any problems I get a feeling that fighting across well-worn battlefields will only obscure the ultimate goals of reducing the need for...

One of the things we can appreciate when we start to see the world as one single interconnected whole is the sometimes uncanny way in which we are all fundamentally connected. A previous post on another blog (”Violence Against Women In...

We all live in a world which is in so many ways defined by boundaries, borders, measurements, limitations and attributed (arbitrary) values. That these various metrics are themselves only really tools with which to understand the world was long ago...