Carr, Greer and the BWF

I think the Carr/Greer/BWF story is a cynical example of harnessing media spin for profit. Here is my assessment of Continue reading →

Carol Lloyd was my other mother.

This was during the late Eighties and I was just a boy, only beginning my career. She was Australia’s original Continue reading →

We’ll take your marriage.

We’ll take your word “marriage” and we’ll make it better, just like we took your word “gay” and made it Continue reading →

The Ugly Gays

  There’s something hideous filtering down through the asylum seeker debate. It’s a slow, creeping endorsement of cruelty. It’s giving Continue reading →

What would you do?

I was startled this week and a little unnerved to receive a notification on my twitter feed about a man Continue reading →

What R U having?

(Published on mamamia.com.au 25.6.2012) In this video, set in an ultrasound clinic, a young pregnant couple are about to be told the Continue reading →

Michael Zavros Artist

I remember the first Michael Zavros work I saw. It was an extraordinary photorealistic painting of a horse that seemed Continue reading →

The Accidental Activist

I knock and wait at the door of the suburban house in The Gap that Michael O’Brien has temporarily moved Continue reading →