20 Oct 2022 | Blog
PART ONE: A TENT IN A FOREST On August 5th, 2012, Jono Moylan and Murray Dreschler pitched a couple of tents not far from the road in the Leard State Forest, near Boggabri in Western NSW. It was an inauspicious beginning to what would become a long and eventful...
30 Mar 2022 | Blog
Even when a pre-election budget has the government handing out funding announcements like Santa Claus, for some of us official mail is rarely a welcome appearance in our letterbox. So I didn’t have high hopes when I opened a letter the other day. Inside the envelope...
3 Mar 2022 | Blog
If you can cast your mind back to last week – you know, before the onset of war and the latest horrendous natural disaster – you might remember a brief moment when the news seemed like it could actually deliver us some pleasant surprises. A couple of stories appeared...
25 Nov 2021 | Blog
After two weeks of world leaders gathering in Glasgow to negotiate a new global climate agreement, COP26 President Alok Sharma stood up to announce the final agreement. Fighting back tears, he said “May I just say to all delegates I apologise for the way this...
17 May 2021 | Blog
There was red dirt, blazing sun and road trains rumbling past; as over 100 cyclists gathered at the start of May for the Tour De Carmichael. Cars are pretty scarce there on the corner of the Gregory Highway and Moray-Carmichael Rd, let alone pushbikes. It was a long...
13 May 2021 | Blog
On May 12th, Abhijeet Swami and Sam Brown stopped construction on Adani’s rail corridor for seven hours by locking themselves to machinery. Abhijeet wrote this to explain why this acion was necessary. The Adani Group is a source of oppression from Adivasi to...
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