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Free Palestine Demonstration. I arrived in Garema Place at 6pm on a Friday 20th for a quiet coffee and a bit of a read. I could do some reading, but it wasn’t going to be very quiet. People were gathering for the Free Palestine demonstration and the excitement level was beginning to build. An unseen […]
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Pattaya Beach in Thailand is a striking mix of poverty, affluence, and sleaze. The poverty is all pervasive; from the working poor who make their living on the streets selling food or driving motor-cycle taxis, to the homeless who beg for money and dig through garbage cans. Affluence is on display in the expensive high-rise […]
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Pattaya Beach in Thailand is a steaming, heaving centre of tourism, where young travellers scuba-dive off tropical islands, and middle-aged men buy cheap love at an advantageous exchange rate. The Sanctuary of Truth stands on the other side of the point at the north end of the beach. It is only a couple of kilometres […]
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Michel Foucault made his name. From docile bodies, and the power game. But of course, he would know… The question is, Was he Maco, or was he Sado?
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In this article I would like to take a brief look at three examples of “presentism” at UC from my own experience and examine some of the failings and contradictions of this mindset. A few years ago, when I was in the second year of my Bachelor of Writing degree, I decided it would be […]
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It was January 5th, 2022, and my plans to go to Murwillumbah were definitely a no go. There was simply too much Covid around and my aunt and uncle were just too old to take the risk. But uni break was more than half over and the travel sirens were singing to me and they […]
Continue ReadingThe hurt I did you long ago, still echoes in my silent halls, bouncing off the dusty walls, where nameless things with scaly wings, mutter at it growing fat, on happiness that might have been.
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If stimulating thought is a mark of classic literature, like the plays of Shakespeare, then the Pooh stories are classics. But why do works from the classical cannon of literature stimulate thought? Why do they give rise to further writings like sparks leaping from a blaze which start new creative fires?
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A chance encounter with a old friend highlights the devastating journey of ice addiction
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