I guess lived experience should count for something. Part of my lived experience has been more than 30 years visiting the work sites of…let me check the folders in my ‘clients’ directory…130…different organizations. In all that time, working with thousands of people, I have never come across a person from either an ethnic or gender … Continue reading On The Meritocracy
Because I’ve read the living tragedy detailed in the Closing the Gap Report. I saw that Aussie kids of indigenous heritage have twice the mortality rate of the rest of the population. You have to leave the developed world to find infant mortality rates that high. These are children. They’ve got no politics. So when … Continue reading Yes
I had an idea for a book once. There was a handful of people in my realm who had all made good from quite difficult circumstances. Not quite rags-to-riches stories, but people who had gone from disadvantage and struggle to a life more of their own choosing. I thought it might be an inspirational coffee … Continue reading How successful people lie.
My eyes kept flicking to the rear-view mirror. Not because the Prado (is there a department of wank that each manufacturer dedicates to the naming of cars? Just wondering) was inches from the bumper of my Commodore (see above). No, a rear end collision might improve look of my Holden’s back end so no worries … Continue reading The Holiday That Hates Me
‘You’ll have to keep up’ says Neta. ‘I move pretty fast around the kids’. The kids. That’s the first thing that strikes me about the how this piece of community art is being created. Put paintbrushes in the hands of nearly 100 kids and surely there’ll be some little ADHD shit-head who’ll just smear paint … Continue reading The Meeting Place
There is a goddess who overlooks all the arguments I have in my head. Her name is victory. But wait, I don’t get into arguments with people in my head because that’d be, you know – crazy. The guy getting into it with people in the imaginary debating chamber of my mind is Hollywood Kingsley. … Continue reading How I was hurt in a fight
I wonder if those folk who say “maybe you should be more positive” ever realize how close they are to getting punched in the face? As a piece of advice, it ranks right up there with ‘calm down’ as among the most useless words ever spoken. I suspect that unsolicited advice is more aimed at … Continue reading The Community of You
"What’s that transvestite blokes name? From the Rocky Horror? Dr Frank-N-Furter, that’s him. Yeah he was probably the most fun to play. But jeez, in over 30 years of theater I’ve pretty much played them all: Inspector Clouseau was fun, so were the Rowan Atkinson characters. It’s been good, the acting; helps explore different parts … Continue reading Mark
‘I see her in a different light now. A more honest light. Not just one that comes from being her mum. The photos were a wake-up call for me. She isn’t that little girl who used to fall asleep on my lap anymore.’ If evolution was only about individual survival, then variety would be stripped … Continue reading Our Uniqueness, Reflected
She sang all the way home from school on the back of my bike. Across the railway line and up the steep road that had paddocks on one side, and the town on the other. We were a few years away from saying good bye to our innocence. But even so, it was the beginning … Continue reading The Reunion
Kingsley Flett 