The coming end of middle class work

April 11, 2013 Journal

HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY SHRUNK the working class (and, therefore, the membership and influence of trade unions), industrial technology and software are now shrinking the working prospects of the middle…

Return — hut on a point

April 9, 2013 A Tasmanian journey

IT’S BEEN DECADES, I thought as the driver throttled back the engines to approach the jetty. Decades… and there was no jetty, no fast catamaran then… just an…

The scouting unit

April 8, 2013 Journal

IT WAS A BIG ANIMAL, ALRIGHT, though some distance off and, fortunately those new to the forward scouting unit thought, headed in a different direction. It was a…

All that remains… ruins on a Tasmanian mountainside

April 8, 2013 A Tasmanian journey

ALL THAT REMAINS is a bit of stone work where the house once was. And a few pieces of iron rusted by the decades since the fires of…

A new forest rises in Randwick

November 19, 2012 Journal

The mission: Establish a food forest at the Permaculture Interpretive Garden, one of the components that make up the Randwick Sustainability Hub. The difficulty: Hard work (though maybe…

Sustainable Communities Plan for Chippendale—a submission

October 26, 2012 Permaculture

ON BEHALF of the Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network, I prepared this submission to the City of Sydney’s public exhibition of the Sustainable Communities Plan for…