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Saturday, June 13, 2020

A Shout Out to Save the Children About Their Age Discrimination

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Countin' flowers on the wall That don't bother me at all Playin' solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty-one Smo...
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Sunday, April 19, 2020

You Clap for Me Now

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It may be British, but applies equally here in the Land of Oz
Sunday, April 12, 2020

A Parable for this Time of Corona

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Despite our advanced individualistic civilisation, we are more connected and closer to nature than we have hitherto liked to admit. Ye...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Henry’s Spag

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Or how to make cooking fun in this Time of Corona. The Sauce Open a bottle of your preferred red wine. For me that’s shiraz, altho...
Monday, March 09, 2020

Trust in Wonderland

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Also published at John Mendue's Pearls and Irritations An Irishman, a Frenchman and two Aussies share a house. That it sounds lik...
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Friday, February 21, 2020

What Malnutrition Looks Like

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Also published at John Menadue's Pearls and Irritations A few days ago, the first Friday in February to be precise, I was banged ...
Saturday, February 08, 2020

The Time to Act is Upon Us

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In amongst the sleaze and the glitter of his second memoir, the self- obsessed jester, Russell Brand, drops the observation; “Do we h...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

What are they Thinking

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To say that a problem is a challenge wearing a hi-vis vest maybe glib, but it does contain an element of truth. One that our government...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Digging Holes After the Bushfires

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It is a truism that the best advice when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. The past four and a half months of bushfires ind...
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Thursday, January 09, 2020

Our Survival Depends Upon Us

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In this age were future growth is being replaced in the popular lexicon by future survivability and leadership is conspicuous by its absti...
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Henry Bateman
Henry Bateman is a retired artist and writer currently living on Whadjuk/Noongar country in Perth Western Australia. In 2015 he returned home after living in the Philippines for 10 years. With this blog Henry has ruminated about the arts (often) and politics (sometimes) and currently the environment. His writing has been published by Crikey.com (Australia), Artslant (US), The Expat Travel & Lifestyle Magazine & The Expat Newspaper (both in the Philippines) and The Western Review (Australia). He has also had seven solo exhibitions and has had his work shown in 15 group exhibitions as well as 35 theater commissions as a set designer and/or lighting designer. He is currently attempting, with varying degrees of success, to live and enjoy an almost carbon free lifestyle.
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