Be Sad, Better
I consider myself a fairly honest person. But when someone asks that innocent question, “How are you?” I’m often tempted to twist the truth....
The Value of Fatherhood
What are your values? Psychologists tell us that values emphatically communicate what is most important to us. When values are “intrinsic” (in other words,...
My Point of No Return
They say that as an aircraft sits at the end of a runway and begins to increase its thrust, there is an imminent stage...
Busting Four Porn Myths
It’s been said that porn and the internet rose together. As technology develops, the pornography industry finds new and even more instant ways to...
Why We Paint: The Krubi Sisters
Sister trio Clara, Emily and Sharon always dreamed of different things they could do together when they grew up. They never thought they would...
NAIDOC: A Week to Remember
NAIDOC Week is July 2–9 and incorporates the second Friday—which historically was celebrated as “National Aboriginal Day”. NAIDOC stands for National Aboriginal and Islanders...
Beating the Tax Man
Amid Australia and New Zealand’s challenging financial landscape of rising inflation and skyrocketing interest rates, families and individuals alike are struggling to maintain their...
How Well Do You Know Your Heroes?
In 2016, I noticed advertising for a new quiz show called Hard Quiz coming to ABC TV in Australia. What caught my attention was the...
A Brief History of Van Life
#Vanlife . . . it’s the aesthetic trend we’ve seen sprawled across the internet in the past decade. The reservoir of photographs framed by...
With so many people speaking ‘their truth’, how do we know...
When Academy Awards boss Bill Kramer recently applauded comedian Chris Rock for speaking “his truth” about being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars ceremony,...
Say it with a Poem
Have you ever felt like there was nothing to your story? Like your life wasn’t anything worth sharing? Or like it would set you...
You are a Dirt Creature
If I were to ask, “who are you?” what would you say? Perhaps you’d start with your name, your family of origin or your...