thinking honestly about life and faith
I’m working my way through Barack Obama’s presidential memoir A Promised Land. Actually it is just the first volume and 712 pages plus index it’s a big read. He set out to write the whole thing in one 500 page … Read More »
Recently the Melbourne Theatre Company offered the presentation online of some great speeches in Australian history. Hearing one of these prompted me to review a superb collection of such speeches, published in 2005, ‘Men and Women of Australia’: Our greatest … Read More »
Crikey news today reports that the ‘No’ campaign in the current postal survey on same sex marriage has specifically targeted the leaders of Asian communities in Australia, who are thought to be more likely to reject the proposal. (http://www.crikey.com.au) There is … Read More »
I’ve greatly enjoyed reading Magda Szubanski’s memoir Reckoning. It’s a rigorously honest and (of course) funny account of growing up in outer suburban Melbourne, discovering her talent for comedy and acting, finding her own identity and sexuality—but all of this played … Read More »