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The citizen photojournalist: here’s the manual

WHO BETTER than a multimedia photojournalist and blogger whose work has also been picked up by old media's newspapers and TV to write a book on citizen journalism? After all, Carlos Miller has pioneered this new field of independent journalism and popularised it in his blog, Photography Is Not A Crime.

Enforcing accountability with cameras

Paul Kitano explains how to improve civil accountability through cameras and photojournalism…

In 2025, what will your kids be doing for a living?

This is a story inspired by the article: The iEverything and the Redistribution Imperative: http://robertreich.org/post/113801138315 The link to the article was circulated on social media by farmer and fair food advocate, Michael Croft. THIS IS another article in a growing list of articles questioning our automated and robotised future. The author raises the idea of […]

In the scrub, by the bay — a rediscovery

IT WAS AT THE END of 2104, December, when I accidentally rediscovered the Tyler family graves. My discovery of them was back in the 1970s when I was with a group bushwalking down that way. The only person I recall from that walk — and it’s now something of a vague, poorly-recalled memory — was […]

Towards Permaculture 3.0

Is is time, then for a new version of the permaculture design system so that it can continue to offer the solutions we need?

In the Anthropocene… What role for permaculture?

I STARTED WRITING this paper as a background handout for a group direction-finding session planned for APC12 (the twelfth Australasian Permaculture Convergence)...

Submission: Victorian Greens Animal Policy Review 2015

Following is a submission to the Victorian Greens Animals policy review as invited by email circulated in February 2015.

Small and slow solutions: a principle too little, too late?

SMALL AND SLOW SOLUTIONS… permaculture principle or shibboleth? A bit of both, I think. A good idea some of the time, but what about other times? Small of slow solutions might work when we’re establishing an ordhard, but in these days of the Great Acceleration it might be too little too late. Let me explain. […]

The household economy: time for reimagining?

I KNEW WHAT WAS HAPPENING when she got the big drum out from the back of the cupboard. “I”m going to bottle those cherries we got yesterday”, Fiona said. “So I’m cleaning up the kitchen first to make space. Let’s get that stuff out of the drying rack and those utensils off the stove”. I […]

From mountain to museum

I made these photos at Launceston's Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk last week. They show some of the artefacts used by a Tasmanian Bushwalker of the 1960s and 1970s.

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