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So, the ‘love-in’. I’d been hearing about this since the start of the year, when I started my new job as an IEU Organiser. All the officers from all the branches of the IEU (SA, QLD/NT, VIC/TAS, NSW/ACT, WA) all headed down to the RACV Resort in Torquay to take part in a series of…

It’s difficult to be a union activist in the current climate. I’ve only got experience to talk about my very limited time with the union I currently work for, but, upon reflection, I imagine that it’s never an easy time to be a union activist. Even in periods when there is a Labor government in…

Good morning everybody. My name is Keith Heggart, and I’m an IEU Organiser working in Cumberland and Ku-Ring-Gai. Marilyn asked me to come to the activist conference and tell you a little bit about my journey and share what wisdom I might have learned along the way in the hope of encouraging you all to…

So, in the space of the lsat couple of months, I have seen The Dirty Dancing Musical (shudder), Ed Sheeran (Hooray), The Zac Brown Band (Hooray) and Frank Turner (Hooray!!). It’s been a great time – and certainly more live entertainment than I’ve seen ni the previous couple of years. What can I say? It…

For as long as I have been alive – and thats thirty plus years now – Richie Benaud has been a part of cricket. Sure, lately he’s been seen on our screens less and less, but there was always that feeling that he was there, behind the scenes, marking down the bowling figures or acutely…

I’m sure you all saw the horrible scenes on the weekend of the #reclaimaustralia rallies that were held around the country on the weekend. I’m sure the fact that they were held on Easter was probably a deliberate ploy by the organisers, but what they felt they had in common with an Arab Jew who…

So I finally got to go along to see the Zac Brown Band at the Hordern Pavilion. I’ve seen more concerts in the last couple of months than I have in the preceding couple of years, and this was one of the best. To be fair, though, they’ve all been pretty good. I was, perhaps…

Are you a visual learner? An auditory one? A kinaesthetic one? What about your strongest intelligence? Are you visual-spatial? Perhaps you are musical? I imagine there are some teachers who already know their learning style or in which of Gardner’s multiple intelligences they are strongest, but I’ve asked the questions above because I think they…

It is unfortunate that Australia continues to see asylum seekers and refugees as crucial to the political and economic life of the country. Since that Tampa incident during the Howard government, the so-called ‘flood’ of people seeking asylum has remained in the national consciousness and has been used as a tool for unscrupulous politicians to…

I read The Colour of Magic when I was pretty young. I remember my older brother bringing it home from the library. I liked the story, I guess, but it didn’t really reach out and grab me – it was too adult, in a way that I wouldn’t understand until I had grown up –…