Conflux 9, the 2013 national science fiction convention, here in Australia, has just released its program (you’ll need to click on the links for the individual...
Read MoreThe Rationalist Society of Australia is launching its own manifesto for a secular Australia. I can get behind most of this, perhaps all of it. I also think that it...
Read MoreFor those who are local and/or interested, the full program for the Newcastle Writers Festival is now available online. Once again, the most salient item on the program...
Read MoreIn her famous 1928 book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead notoriously wrote about an island paradise in the Pacific with much more carefree attitudes to...
Read MoreOver the weekend, the police in Australia’s biggest states have arrested a large number of people at music festivals in Sydney and Melbourne. It seems that the...
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