SHADOW HOUSE PITS write

In 1972 Chris Plant and I went on a drinking spree in his car, or was it my car, to the Gold Coast in Queensland. We caught up with mates and sank a few dozen coldies. But as the day moved on, we searched for a party to crash. And we found one in Kirra Beach or there abouts in an old Queenslander style house where there were scores of teens and early twenties all having fun. As gate crashers, we weren't offensive and actually made out quite well with the young hosts of the ni

Writing or producing anything in the arts and theatre comes with a big fear as to what may eventuate ... even kill you The big dread! Night tremors and vague associations with all that could be wrong and all that might be left unresolved in one's life! The big fear that haunts one's every move and yet has no form and no particular shape. We howl at the ceiling above our beds; shadowed by the glow from the lamps on the streets and pathways of the surrounding units ... and yet

Education and Western culture has certainly transformed from being an anti-youth authoritarian regime to being a subservient pandering culture of acknowledging and the extolling of Narcissus as a god of Youth. Child centred education is not simply about finding the best way of motivating learning. It is becoming an abdication of competency and academic mastery in favour of sycophantic adherence to a doctrine of bowing to ignorance and a god of Narcissus! In science, will we h