We’ve reached the half-way point of series one in the wonderful Cape York NRM podcast My Cape York Life – with plenty of good stories told and many more to come. The stories are entertaining, inspiring, and often hilarious. You’ll hear about epic wet season […]
I love good stories. This podcast series is full of them. It’s called My Cape York Life, made by Cape York NRM. It’s full of good stories about life on Cape York Peninsula, told by the people who live there and care for its surprisingly […]
an environmental remedy, a tonic for bushland, seems a counter-intuitive notion, especially in a nation so determined, for good reasons, to prevent fire in its cities and countryside. But the idea that the right kind of fire at the right time might help rehabilitate “sick” country, […]
I’ve just seen an advance copy of a beautiful new book about one of our far north Queensland rainforests. It’s called Jigurru – Storm Season. It takes you inside the rainforest during November and December, the build-up to the tropical wet season, when the temperature […]
It’s a fact of Australian political life that most questions put to voters by way of a referendum will be rejected. But in May 1967, voters overwhelmingly responded “yes” when asked the question “DO YOU APPROVE the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution […]
I’m a keen student of the human condition in all its manifestations, and one of the most fascinating is the way we navigate our way through life, charting a course between safety and danger. We take risks, all the time. Without risk, there would be […]
In 1990, I got hold of a new album by the always hard to categorise Australian band Not Drowning Waving. That album was Tabaran – it changed my life, because it was the starting point of my relationship with Papua New Guinea. Like most Australians, […]
This year the Red Cross marks 100 years of service to the communities of Australia. This morning I sat down for a yarn with a group women in Cairns who, between them, have given almost 150 years of service as Red Cross volunteers in far […]
Down south, a year has four seasons. Melbourne can have that many in a single day. Here in far north Queensland, indeed, right across tropical Australia, we tend to count just two seasons – the wet and the dry. In the wet, the monsoon brings […]
If you ask people to talk about Australian indigenous art, most will think immediately of dot paintings – a style from the central Australian desert, instantly recognisable all over the world as Australian and indigenous. It’s by far the most commercially successful element of our […]