Attending the #ICV Annual Dinner, featuring Keynote Speaker: Prof Gillian Triggs, Former Pres. of the Australian Human Rights Commission. She addressed:‘Rising Islamophobia in a Post Truth World’. Included in her speech were: The importance of pushing back against...

Lenticular Dwellings & Diasporas: People & Places

At ‘Lenticular Dwelling’ – a fascinating lecture by Professor Ghassan Hage. As part of the ADI Symposium: “Aesthetic Anxiety or Performative Subjectivity: National narratives encountering migrant architecture”  In summary- this examined how...

Where Are You Really From?

There is a sweet irony in the recent slew of disgraced Australian MP’s who it turns out have been acting outside of a constitution they purport to represent. Albeit unknowingly. Surely though, the checks and balances they legislate for exist for a reason; bureaucracy...

I Am Not Your Negro

Feeling at once enraged and in awe of the formidable mind, that is James Baldwin. Thinker, disrupter and truth teller, Baldwin’s stand on calling out the vice of white power in historical and present day oppression of Black Americans, was uncompromising. This film...

High Tea with Healing Ambition

Was honoured that the Cyril Dharmawardana Foundation Inc. (CDF) invited me to guest present at their Annual High Tea event at the Brighton Town Hall Gardens  The Melbourne based CDF is a charity established to assist cancer patients both locally and overseas, ....