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Confronting violence
Posted on June 7, 2024 Leave a Comment
I walked along a footpath on the side of a suburban road in the heart of Colombo. I glanced at my watch and looked up at the sky, splashed with vivid red, orange and yellow, the colours of sunset. At six-thirty, night had begun to elbow out dusk. It wouldn’t take long to complete the […]
Thyroid wars
Posted on April 28, 2024 Leave a Comment
Are our bodies a microcosm of nature? Let’s see. Evolution, that is natural selection, is happening in every handful of soil you might happen to pick up. Is it happening in our bodies too? Our bodies are full of living creatures, mostly good bacteria beavering away in our guts and other places. Some refer collectively […]
Baring my soul
Posted on April 20, 2024 Leave a Comment
I harbour a self-perception that I have no dark, subterranean forces simmering within me. You know the sort of forces, buried deep most of the time, but, triggered by a provocation, manifesting in a sudden, hot, volcanic eruption or a cold act of revenge. I once mentioned at work that my darkest forces were no […]
A Voice
Posted on November 7, 2022 Leave a Comment
My thoughts flowing from Noel Pearson’s opening 2022 Boyer lecture. Constitutional recognition of Australia’s first nation peoples is a vital missing component, which as long as it stays missing keeps Australia immature, racist, in denial, and unable to face the truth. Conservative Australia fears recognition because it assumes that what follows recognition is repudiation, and […]
Gerry Roberts 
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