Australia

Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra (twice!). — Last October, Scribe Books published the commonwealth edition of Chokepoint Capitalism, the book Rebecca Giblin and I wrote about how monopolistic labour markets are rigged, and how we need to think beyond copyright to get artists paid: https://scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/books/chokepoint-capitalism-9781915590015 If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or…

Same every year! — I planted my Almond tree over ten years ago. Coming to Australia from the UK, it was exciting to be able to grow citrus fruit, olives and nuts. I’d always wanted an orchard. Where I lived in England, we built our house on land at the bottom of someone’s garden…

Well if you live in Ireland or New Zealand, you probably won’t have any scary snake or spider stories, but if you live in Australia, you probably have dozens or if you’re like me, and lived on a cane farm, even more! Snakes, spiders, rats, bats, blue tongue lizards, possums…

Tales of Aussieness that make you proud and cringe to be Australian all at the same time — There are shit things about Australia and there are bloody awesome things. And then there are downright Aussie things about Australia. The kind of things that make you exclaim, “By jingo, the wild west’s got nothing on this place!” Here, dear reader, are some of the Aussiest things that have…