I’m sharing this article from Science Magazine last month, because it is highly relevant to the work I’ve been doing for over 10 years with some of Australia’s most poverty-stricken, marginalised people. I must think about this issue almost daily, and have intuitively known that the stress people are under contributes to the often frustrating, … More The Effect of Scarcity on Your Brain
Nine months in Cambodia is bound to be a life changing, fabulous experience, of that I have no doubt. Meanwhile, I am signed up to a news service from East Timor and the other day I read an announcement about a vaccination program in Timor which sounded incorrect. Here’s the correspondence that ensued. You just … More Development Projects Abound
The below is stolen from a NY Times blog, and I LOVE it. Recently I received an e-mail that wasn’t meant for me, but was about me. I’d been cc’d by accident. This is one of the darker hazards of electronic communication, Reason No. 697 Why the Internet Is Bad — the dreadful consequence of … More I know what you think of me
I’m leaving Alice Springs in four weeks from today. It’s starting to feel very close, and there are many people who I need to leave behind, which is saddening. As the Alice Festival is currently on, and last night Cinema in the River (ie in the dry riverbed) was featuring an indigenous movie, Satellite Boy, … More Cinema in the River
In the lead-up to moving overseas for two years, I have moved out of my house and been house sitting. I’m currently staying in a beautiful architectural home, and have use of the car while I’m here, a near-new Mazda 3 which I’m getting around in happily. Another friend is also away. I house sat … More A Life of Contrasts
It’s not really mine, but belongs to a neighbour/friend. In just over a month I am moving to Cambodia to live and work for nine months. I would love to be going back to East Timor, but at this stage, for employment and experience purposes, Timor doesn’t offer the same opportunities. For starters, Medecins sans … More My First Cambodian Story
Our social media has gone crazy with “funnies” about Tony Abbott’s election win on Saturday. He’s a very conservative man, and many of us are not happy with various aspects of his politics. But he won in a landslide victory, and so we’re going to have to “wear it”. The only thing I want to … More Australia has a new Prime Minister
It turns out that Red Cross in East Timor (CVTL) have a “water team”. They have emailed me to explain that they may well be able to assist with the request for water access for the small village who lost their water in the recent disaster. They need the request for assistance to come directly … More Timor-Leste Correspondence
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