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exploring a theology of gratitude in the land of entitlement
getting more than our fingers burnt: choosing a secondary school with your child's health at heart
life experience: the most yawn-worthy qualification in the world?
squeezing blood from stone: productivity in education
breaking point: why you can't see a GP
wearing bamboo: slip, slop, slap with an environmental plus
scott morrison: tragedy seen in dillusions of worthiness
no mate, she won't be right: facing up to the climate crisis
julia gillard: what's in a name?
tongue aerobics prescribed for a good night's sleep
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popular posts

  • In Memory of Carolyn, A Theatre
    Travelling over undulating hills, past cattle and lush pasture north-west of Colac, Red Rock Arts Gallery and Theatre is the...
  • Geoffrey Rush Reveals Unsung Sondheim Lyrics for Melbourne: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
    Geoffrey Rush (Pseudolus) According to Geoffrey Rush, Melbourne audiences will be treated to Sondheim’s ‘as yet unperform...
  • All I Want for Mother's Day is a Bus Every 10 minutes
    Last week my nine year-old accosted me with the perennial words, “Mum, I’m bored I don’t know what to do”. Looking up from my newspaper I ...
  • Moonshadow: World Premiere for Melbourne
    Blake Bowden & Jolyon James Moonshadow , a musical featuring the music of Yusef Islam (formally Cat Stevens) is set to cast its ma...
  • Eating the Neighbour's Pets
    Pedro is eating our neighbour’s pets. It’s happened twice now. The first time he scooted through our legs at the front door, sprinting past...
  • in a canberra cafe
    A woman is weeping by the door. I turn from my early morning coffee to see her squatting by a table on the floor. Another woman wearing a r...
  • Concert in Cororooke and River Walk at Barwon Heads
    My two latest activity reviews have been published this morning on Weekend Notes, a global site which reviews a wide variety of leisure a...
  • 10 Activities for Strike Day Kids
    In support of the teacher's industrial action tomorrow my primary school boy will be staying home. I've been thinking about what w...
  • Review: Sweet Charity (Ringwood Secondary College)
    You’ve got to love a show that inspires teenage boys to dance. And dancing is certainly a feature of Ringwood Secondary College’s Swee...
  • Hamer Hall Reopens in Glittering Style
    No expense was spared for the glittering opening concerts at the newly refurbished Hamer Hall in Melbourne this week. Over two night...

some published work

  • 10 Ideas for the Queen's Birthday
  • 10 fun study-break ideas
  • 10 ways to embrace the winter months
  • 60 years of melbourne gang show
  • 60th melbourne gang show (review)
  • 8 Events for a Spiritual Easter
  • Australian Women Writers Challenge 2013
  • a masked ball (review)
  • a storm in a D cup (review)
  • adventures of butt boy and tigger (review)
  • afghanistan: Hidden treasures exhibition
  • all the world's a stage for amazing performing arts teacher
  • annie (review)
  • annie returns to Oz
  • at last: the etta james story (review)
  • autumn 'road trip' by foot
  • backstage at MTC-HQ
  • behind the phantom's mask: meet Ben Lewis
  • bell shakespeare - the comedy or errors
  • big workplace sing 2013
  • blak-bangarra dance theatre (review)
  • blaze (review)
  • bluff circuit walk, barwon heads
  • botanica
  • breaking point - why you can't see a GP
  • cafe scheherazade (review)
  • cavalia (review)
  • cavalia comes to town
  • ceremony a real pushover
  • charles dickens presents a christmas carol (review)
  • circus oz cranked up at the big top
  • circus oz under-construction
  • circus oz: cranked up (review)
  • circus oz: steampowered (review)
  • clybourne park-mtc (review)
  • contact! operatic soapie invades suburban netball court
  • contact! the netball musical (review)
  • delivering our daily bread
  • designing love never dies
  • die young and have a good looking corpse
  • dubai mall (activity review)
  • entech 2012: hot stuff at techie mecca
  • family battle brims with hope
  • federation playspace, warrandyte (review)
  • flowerchildren (theatre works review)
  • flowerchildren - comedy theatre (review)
  • geoffrey rush reveals unsung sondheim lyrics
  • grievous angel: the legend of gram parsons (review)
  • guitar perspectives
  • hairspray: a 'brand new do' in theatre technology
  • hamer hall reopens in glittering style
  • hamer hall reopens: is it $136 million well spent?
  • happy ending-mtc (review)
  • happy rehearsal campers at ringwood
  • himmelweg (review)
  • how to host a 'super moon' party
  • how to train your dragon - arena spectacular (review)
  • htc: summer of the 17th doll (review)
  • i animal (review)
  • in memory of carolyn, a theatre
  • legally blonde opens in melbourne
  • lloyd webber in town: sneak-peek at love never dies
  • love never dies (review)
  • mademoiselle (review)
  • magnormos: taking flower children to the comedy
  • mcalpin reserve, ringwood north (review)
  • meet king kong
  • melbourne orphans announced on annie's 35th birthday
  • miss ophelia (review)
  • moonshadow (review)
  • moonshadow shines through gloomy melbourne morning
  • moonshadow: world premiere for melbourne
  • my son, the vegetarian
  • next to normal (review)
  • other desert cities (review)
  • outdoor theatre: the joys and perils
  • profile: justin burford
  • quit horsing around, this is puppetry
  • ray lawler: summer of our 90th year
  • recipe for success
  • red rock regional theatre and gallery, cororooke
  • ringwood lake park
  • river walk at barwon heads
  • rock of ages (review)
  • romeo and juliet (review)
  • rsc: kiss me kate (review)
  • rsc: sweet charity (review)
  • savages (review)
  • savages by patricia cornelius
  • school holidays for theatre lovers
  • singin' in the rain (review)
  • sneak peek: how to train your dragon
  • sondheim gets ticket to melbourne forum
  • south pacific (review)
  • south pacific: its mccune, tahu rhodes, ceberano and perfect
  • spring into ANZAC
  • starchaser (review)
  • success no stretch for glen iris gymnast
  • tape (review)
  • the confidence man (review)
  • the crucible (review)
  • the dollhouse (review)
  • the giraffe's uncle (review)
  • the laramie project 10 years later (review)
  • the man in black - johnny cash story
  • the mountain (mtc review)
  • the neighbours taste like....chicken?
  • the seed (review)
  • the trip (review)
  • top activities for families at barwon heads
  • traditional easter cake
  • twice through trauma
  • vaulting to success in glen waverley
  • vienna on fire
  • vika bull to narrate etta james' life
  • wagner roos welcome ring nuts
  • war horse - the international juggernaut to hit melbourne
  • wheels of friendship
  • william buckley: the go-between

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