Donna Williams’ Blog

Ever the arty Autie

The Australian screenwriter - and the awards go to…..

This year I got a National Literary Awards commendation for one of my feature film screenplays, The Tower and was invited to accept my award. This time I decided to go.

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Australian local government signs up to Kyoto

The local paper isn’t usually the place one expects riveting news but I was this week it was.

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Phillip Ruddock’s foot-in-mouth episode re David Hicks.

Our friend and wonderfully sharp, witty, blogger, Chris Borthwick, wrote an interesting entry about Phillip Ruddock’s foot-in-mouth episode regarding the illegal detention of David Hicks.

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Watching Dugong and Poetry at Film Victoria.

The room was noisy and a chicken coup. People mingled, glasses in hand, smiley, interested heads bobbing. My husband Chris and I hugged our chairs in a quiet, rather solitary space outside of the hub-bub. A waitress came around with canapes. It sounds like canned apes, but no, in fact […]

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Autistic art at Art for a Cause

I have an art exhibition coming up in Melbourne
April 11th-May 2nd,
Gallery 15,
15 William St, Melbourne.
open Monday-Friday 9am-6pm.
info@peakevents.com.au
It’s a wonderful inner city gallery involved with a program called Art for a Cause in which artists can use their work to raise awareness or funds for a cause they support.

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Buying the Presidency

Some people in the non-USA world view America as a whole as having money as its God.
If the president is the largest power in people’s lives next to God
and if they give him the power of life and death as they believe God has
then what do we make of the fact that George […]

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Those living with Anhedonia

I received a letter from a reader, convinced that autism was a state of torture, of being one of the living dead, unable to feel anything for anyone or anything in the external world.

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Peripheral vision in some people on the autism spectrum.

I went for an updated eye test at the opticians today and had a most interesting discussion.

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