Since late October I’ve been watching a pair of wood ducks nurse their brood of ducklings to maturity. I have a large dam at my house and each morning I can look out the kitchen window and watch the duck family warming themselves in the morning sun. There were nine...
It is now four weeks since the ABC Four Corners program screened footage of the tear-gassing of six boys being held in isolation at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin, exposing one of the darkest incidents in the history of juvenile justice in Australia....
Climbing ladders over a certain age is like playing Russian roulette, or so I’m told. But gutters have to be cleaned and with water tanks at their lowest ebb and rain forecast, a task that I’ve been able to put off, and off again, suddenly becomes urgent. The way my...
