Saw this program this week.  You thought An Inconvenient Truth was scary?  What this doco Read the rest of this entry »

  There’s a saying, Beauty is as Beauty does.  It’s amazing how ugly beauty might be underneath.

  According to Wikipedia the definition of Terrorism is ,

“the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. Read the rest of this entry »

In 2000, my husband Chris and I visited Japan and met with the stars of the international hit TV series: “Things You Taught Me” (“Kimi Ga Oshiete Kureta Koto”) and it’s director at TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting) , Tsunenari Yamasaki. Eight years on the series has shown in countries throughout Asia and I thought to ask when we might get to see it in English speaking countries. Here’s my interview with the director: Read the rest of this entry »

We passed her on the train platform, tall, mid 20s, sporting a stylish winter coat, hair well kept. She was probably reasonably well educated, reasonably financial. And she sucked on a cancer stick. I thought, another sucker for the billionaire multinationals and their rat experiments. Read the rest of this entry »

Our TV here in Australia has just had advertisements urging everyone to go vegetarian. That may not sound so strange but we, like the US, are a meat producing nation. Read the rest of this entry »

I am seriously telling people in drought stricken suburbs, cities and towns to collect any large rubbish bins or industrial size builder’s tubs and place them around your back garden. Even put them under your rain pipes. Read the rest of this entry »

Chris Draper, a scientific researcher with the Born Free Foundation contacted me about a new ‘therapy’ ready to cash in on the tail of that equally hot money spinner in the ever expanding autism marketplace, dolphin therapy. Read the rest of this entry »

OK, so you buy the toothpaste in it’s fancy cardboard box and bring it home and first thing you do is throw that dyed, bleached, often not even recycled cardboard into the rubbish bin, or hopefully at least the recycle bin. You do it, I do it, and gazillions of households world wide do it ALL THE TIME. Read the rest of this entry »

From harsh beginnings Aisha came into a fortunate adoption with an autism friendly family who are able to see the person she is and work to shape a world in which her personhood can blossom and be appreciated. Here I talk to her adoptive father, David Clark who has an exciting idea of starting an autism community in Brasil. I’ve asked him about it, and about Aisha. Here’s our interview. Read the rest of this entry »