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An Open Letter to Start Ups

Aspirational sirs and madams, please cease and desist with your requests for free assistance.

May 17, 2021

An Open Letter to Start Ups

May 17, 2021

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There’s blood on La Planche des Belles Filles

It’s Roglic in yellow, by nearly a minute in the bag. Champagne queued for popping, yellow Bianchi in the sag. His team of outright…

Sep 21, 2020

There’s blood on La Planche des Belles Filles

Sep 21, 2020

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Poem | Silent Partner

A couple of never-be-winners were down on their luck, They’d done all their dosh at the dish-lickin’ track. A beer-hazy trip to the WC…

Jun 21, 2020

Poem | Silent Partner

Jun 21, 2020

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Big Red — Australian Bushfires

Summer is under foot again. The soles of Australian’s shoes melt into the tar for a solid six hours a day. This in itself isn’t a concern…

Jun 4, 2020

Big Red — Australian Bushfires

Jun 4, 2020

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Simplicity in the wake of 2020

Poem: With a fresh perspective, derived off the back of months of isolation, certain feelings bubble their way to the surface.

Jun 4, 2020

Simplicity in the wake of 2020

Jun 4, 2020

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It was probably naive of me to think the world would change.

Poem: It was probably naive of me to think the world would change.

Jun 4, 2020

It was probably naive of me to think the world would change.

Jun 4, 2020

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George Floyd

No benefit, no doubt Another mother’s tears upon the dirt.

Jun 4, 2020

George Floyd

Jun 4, 2020

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Black Squares Matter

Why well-intentioned white people just like me are missing the point.

Jun 3, 2020

Black Squares Matter

Jun 3, 2020

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Solidarity doesn’t start with a hashtag

On May 25th, Officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police killed George Floyd, a black man accused of using a counterfeit $20 note to…

Jun 1, 2020

Solidarity doesn’t start with a hashtag

Jun 1, 2020

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Will the Coronavirus destroy your worker rights?

While the world is gripped by the pandemic status of CoVid-19, Coronavirus, it becomes difficult to keep a perspective on more ordinary…

Mar 15, 2020

Will the Coronavirus destroy your worker rights?

Mar 15, 2020

Ben Whitmore

Ben Whitmore

Australian writer, sometimes poet and photographer // surf journo and marketer in alternate universes // twitter.com/ben_whitmore

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