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251 Winter 2023

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Tom O'Lincoln

Tom O’Lincoln is a lifelong socialist and political activist who has written eight books and numerous newspaper and magazine articles over fifty years. His most recent book of political memoirs, The Highway is for Gamblers, was published by Interventions in 2017. Tom is currently living with Parkinson’s disease in an aged care facility in Melbourne.

Articles by Tom O'Lincoln:

8 July 201917 September 2019 · aged care

Dementia is not a democracy: looking for freedom in an old folks’ home

Tom O'Lincoln

A democracy in aged care would need to work through a series of layers. The society around us would have to be more fair. It would look for better ways to finance the system. But above all it would find a way to involve residents more in decisions about how the facility functions. Perhaps one day ‘homes’ will really be more like homes.

2 July 201010 April 2012 · Main Posts

Non-fiction review – What’s wrong with Anzac?

Tom O'Lincoln

What’s Wrong With Anzac: The Militarisation of Australian History Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds with Mark McKenna and Joy Damousi University of New South Press When Marilyn Lake, Henry Reynolds and others published this courageous demolition of the Anzac tradition, hostile replies came quickly. The Sunday Age published a critique by senior journalist Tom Hyland, […]