World Press Freedom Reflecting Community Values
I found it interesting to find there is a day allotted by UNESCO As World Press Freedom Day. I remember attending a Lecture in Melbourne by a senior Age journalist discussing the changes to the media industry. The emerging on-line media sources, free media, the ability of citizens to undertake their own reporting, the ability… Continue reading
Politics or Democracy?
When you can sit with someone who has diametrically opposed political beliefs and really listen without judgement, you are experiencing democracy. When the other can do that with you, you both have real power and the opportunity to co-create a great future based on respect and the right to freedom of speech. Truth always emerges… Continue reading
A Hung Parliament Hangs up Democracy
I thought I may premise this short poem with some thoughts more like sketches about the situation in the US and the attempts to force some sort of dissolution of government. I didn’t read the politics of this indepth but reflected on the Whitlam dismissal here in Australia in 1975 as I felt similarities. There… Continue reading
Vote 1: A Civil Manifesto
I wrote this at 4am in the morning and sent it to all the Parliamentarians just prior to the election where John Howard was replaced by Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister of Australia. I felt inspired to write a Civil Manifesto.
A CIVIL MANIFESTO
A Civil Manifesto is dedicated to all those
who seek a… Continue reading
Not On Our Watch: A Responsibility to Connect
Not On Our Watch was a NGO set up by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and others to help the people of Darfur. I sent this poem with a letter. I was seeking to connect not because they were famous but because George Clooney was a UN Peace Ambassador. I did have some concerns… Continue reading
Gross National Happiness Part 2
I feel so happy, read on…
GNH as Goal
Happiness is a subjectively felt public good. Happiness is a public good, as all human beings value it. Hence, the government of Bhutan takes the view that it cannot be left exclusively to private individual devices and strivings. If a governments policy framework, and thus a… Continue reading