I heard someone say, recently, that AI is the newest god humankind has created. It is an interesting thought that bears some reflection. Firstly, the human brain has evolved to do everything it can to stay alive. That is its…

Heaps good is part of the South Australian idiom that simply means excellent or cool, but laced with an innocent, awkward naïvety. In many ways, the current Malinauskas government is tapping into the feel good party vibe to distract us…

I wrote this song for me, after a harrowing drive from Quorn back to Adelaide in an under-charged EV. In fact, there are three parts to the inspiration and reflection bound up in this song. Firstly, the creeping dread of…

Today, I interviewed two women who are organisers of the South Australian Death Festival, for The Adelaide Show Podcast – SA Death Festival Is The Key To Living Well. This is a free, public event dedicated to opening up conversations…

I remember family trips to The Big Rocking Horse in Gumeracha, both as a child and as the parent taking children. The “world’s biggest rocking horse”, nicknamed Wal, was conceived by wooden toymaker Wal Wilkinson, who had established a dedicated…

I recently interviewed Daniel Clarke, a Kangaroo Island-based journalist and filmmaker, and in our discussion about his enterprise, Kangaroo Island News & Satire, he explained the frustrating situation facing islanders in relation to a sea ferry. Sealink, the company that…

This song is a lament and a call to keep going at the same time. When the Whyalla Steelworks officially closed Blast Furnace No. 2 earlier this month, it was the end of an era. That furnace had been operating…

I want to say this song wrote itself. But it didn’t. The idea did but the writing process was similar in duration to a mother elephant giving birth. In fact, as you will see at the bottom of this page,…

This song imagines the resistance to Peter Malinauskas’ destruction of the Adelaide Park Lands as a tale about standing up to a tyrant set in historical Greece. The reason for this writing experiment is because I have just read The…

I wrote For Pete’s Sake out of a strange kind of frustration, the kind that comes taking a step back and observing different juristictions when the leaders they voted for take actions that deviate from the norms of expectation. Typically,…