The harrowing, confronting and unmistakable travesty of apartheid is detailed in the chronology of Capetown’s District Six, through the stories and artefacts of its earlier vibrant community of freed slaves, merchants, artisans, labourers and immigrants. The first to...
Brace yourselves ! Tonight’s Drum guests featured Tasneem Chopra, Dr Darren Saunders and Patricia Forsythe, with summer host, Adam Sanders. We spoke about prime numbers, cryptography, distributed computing, cancer care and survivorship, role of Govt vs...
Tonight I attended a welcome dinner for the five latest Indonesian delegates of the AIMEP, along with various local alumni from years past. It was an opportunity to learn from each other about national perceptions of the other in our home countries. Not surprisingly,...
“When refugees are under attack – what do we do?Stand up! Fight back!” Along with thousands , we gathered en masse to protest the Turnbull/Dutton Regime’s brutal human rights transgressions on Manus Island. These calls to shift refugee policy continue...
Attending the #ICV Annual Dinner, featuring Keynote Speaker: Prof Gillian Triggs, Former Pres. of the Australian Human Rights Commission. She addressed:‘Rising Islamophobia in a Post Truth World’. Included in her speech were: The importance of pushing back against...
There is a sweet irony in the recent slew of disgraced Australian MP’s who it turns out have been acting outside of a constitution they purport to represent. Albeit unknowingly. Surely though, the checks and balances they legislate for exist for a reason; bureaucracy...
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