Sulphur Crested Cockatoos on the wires above our yard
Take off!
Gunbower
Spent a week camping in Gunbower National Park, Victoria, with a group of writerly types. OK, by camping I actually mean glamping in a well tricked out hired camper van, but that’s a pretty good effort for a city slicker like me. Big thanks to the fabulous Steve Gleeson for making it happen. Photos here.
Canberra Womens’ March 4 Justice
Stood on the crowded the lawns of Parliament House yesterday with enthusiastic women and men – tens of thousands across Australia – calling for an end to gendered violence and misogynist privilege. Check out my photos here.
The Future is Now! Climate Fiction
Interested in the future of writing about the future? Watch James Bradley, Jason Nahrung & I engage in a spirited discussion of climate fiction (and rebellion) wrangled by Stuart Winser from Goldfield Libraries.
Conflux 2021
Conflux 2021
RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW
Endeavour House Mural
Endeavour House put out a call for local artists to help design a mural on its prominent, external wall facing both traffic on Canberra Avenue and the main shopping precinct of Manuka. Like my design? You can vote for it or other submissions HERE. The 2021 Doomsday Clock sits at 100 seconds to midnight, naming climate change as an existential threat to humanity. Former UN Climate Change Convention Chief Christiana Figueres states ‘This is the decade and we are the generation’. The five panels of my mural illustrate how the processes leading to resource depleted, climate ravaged futures are inexorably in motion, disregarding devastating toxic impacts on the ecosystems vital to sustaining all life on Earth. We are out of time. We must unite, rise up and stand strong to fight for our future. In Greta Thunberg’s words – RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW.