treaty

February 6 On this day in 1840 the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in New Zealand to make peace between British invaders and North Island Maori chiefs. To this day no treaty has ever been ...read more

coffee olympics

Coffee Olympics, on an outdoor table whose whitewasher left a paintbrush hair behind. Because they is the trouble with whitewashing as a concealment: it's the forensics. No one is foreign, no one's a nullius, no ...read more

how tall is he

In Brisbane we found a bookstore which has a cafe in it. These are little paradises, or is it paradie. What a sweet cool feeling to leave behind the clamour of the street and let ...read more

Invasion Day

The Queen should say sorry. One of the most pungent ideas from today's pre-march speeches and an opportunity for her to be truly generous, gracious, timely, influential, and just.

we need to talk about the war

"The local press spoke with the unrelenting language of a war front. 'We have seized their country by the right of might and by the right of might of whites will continue to possess it', ...read more

Survival Day

Survival Day gleanings. This is what I cleaned out of my bag after we got home. Started out to hear the speeches and to march, ended up with our hearts broken and opened up all ...read more

daintily, handily

All the noisiness of sun. To a German, the crashing in the bamboo at 3am sounds like a housebreaker festooned with plastic bags. How could a little possum make so much noise? Why must the ...read more

the dogover nation

To the person who decided that every cafe, restaurant, waiting room, bus station, bus, and public space had to have a television screen in it: I disagree with you.  

ring Tony

Phone call from Berlin, around two months ago: My mum: yes, and so Me: yes, and then if we Mum's phone: buh bah dah da bump.. Me: is that your ringtone? Why do you have ...read more