In 1997, in response to anti-union legislation, 30,000 unionists marched on WA Parliament, and were ignored. On May Day, directly across the road from Parliament, aka ‘Bullshit Castle’, a site was pegged and legally claimed by unionists using the Mining Act. Remarkably, Solidarity Park is now Heritage Protected. The site is not just historic though, it’s alive. We ought to keep it overflowing with our movements.

Australia is home to 0.3 per cent of the world's population but 20 per cent of the world's pokies. Pokies' users in New South Wales lose an average of $4,500 per person every year, or $11.4 billion a year. It's time to make the gutless politicians tame the pokies.

'What these bosses don't understand is that in attacking us, they bring us together.' (Paddy Crumlin, Maritime Union of Australia, Svitzer Rally November 2022)

At sixteen years old you're old enough to die in a war, have worked for two years, drive a car, leave school, pay taxes, get married, secure public housing, vote in over 15 other countries, have an existential crisis. Let 16+ year olds vote!

Sometimes people's care for their workplace gets weaponised and used against them. Just remember: you don't have to hate your job to want a union.

The landmass we call Australia is rich with sun and wind, with enough renewable energy to power 500 Australias.

Sam Wallman has some suggestions for how workers should behave on the job.

This month, Rail Tram and Bus Union members in NSW gifted the public free train travel as part of their industrial action against the tightarse Tory State Government. In so doing they showed us that maybe public transport should be free. We already pay for it.

My friend Trev invited me to count lyre birds with his local community, between Gunai/Kurnai Country and Boonwurrung Country. 'We listen to their songs, and make a map of them.'

It's 100,000% your boss's job to cover your shift if you're sick, not yours. Your boss absorbs the profit, let them absorb the risk.

In which Sam Wallman expresses a strong opinion about the educational value and social role of private schools.

In spite of isolated acts of warmth and grace taking place between people around the world at any given moment, broadly speaking, formally organised collectivism is in decline. We've probably never been this alone, in a time when coming together couldn't be more important.

‘Meaningful action is whatever increases the confidence, the autonomy, the initiative, the participation, the solidarity, the equalitarian tendencies and the self-activity of the masses and whatever assists in their demystification. Sterile and harmful action is whatever reinforces the passivity of the masses, their apathy, their cynicism, their differentiation through hierarchy, their alienation, their reliance on others to do things for them and the degree to which they can therefore be manipulated by others—even by those allegedly acting on their behalf.’

I was picked up to go to a citizen science camp in Goongerah-East Gippsland. I'd come to Melbourne for respite, after the Lismore flood. I was excited to see Audrey, who I'd first met at a citizen science camp 10 years ago. But the forest looked completely different to how it had looked the last time I'd visited.

Why do all drawings look the same? The style known as 'Corporate Memphis' deploys flat, geometric, benign-looking figures, rendered in solid colours. Their fun, bendy arms offering to launder the reputation of any real estate agent, bank or social media platform.

Just don't.