I’m the subject of a column ("The Switch") in the MyCareer section of The Sydney Morning Herald this Saturday (24 November 2007; election day). The story, written by Anne Fawcett, covers the apprenticeship I served in law and book publishing…

My poem “We are not Finished at the Skin,” written in conversation with Lucia Rossi’s wonderful images, was published last week in PAN 4. PAN is an online journal; PAN is Philosophy, Activism, Nature. Check it out; subscribe. PAN 4…

The writer Eric Rolls, author of A Million Wild Acres, died after a short illness on 31 October. Eric Rolls was a pioneering Australian nature writer; he was a poet, farmer, essayist, lover of life, advocate of the wild. I…

I walked out of the cowshed on Sunday at noon to find nearly fifteen mils of rain in the gauge. Rain is news where I live. Most it fell from storms that did some damage along the coast on Saturday…

Yesterday, Saturday 27 October, Climate Action Now–Wingecarribee (CANWin) held a forum here in Bowral, at which representatives of all the parties (except, of course, the incumbent conservatives) spoke and took questions about their commitments to action on climate change. Dr…