
Last Sunday evening, 2nd March, 2025, I met John Shipton, the good father, whose fourteen-year international campaign, secured the release from Britain’s highest security prison at Belmarsh, and the return home to Australia of his son, Julian Assange of Wikileaks. Julian Assange photo by David G. Silvers, via Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. In…

Burri Jerome, a talented artist and musician, was born on the Kempsey Mission and later trained at the National Art School in Sydney. His works gained recognition both in Australia and internationally.

On my wanderings, I have snapped existing photographs of Aboriginal people taken around the times of early contact.




Wallum is precious for its own sake. It has intrinsic value. It is one of the richest plant communities in the world, and supports birds, mammals, reptiles, frogs, insects, and marsupials, including our endangered, iconic Koala.


Watch this interview with Dr John Wilson, and clips from the Ecocide book launch in 2024.

Burnt out as a therapist attending urban distress, I turned eco-activist, living and writing 26 years in Australia’s outback.