Image: 'Shore Thing' by Niki Read, submitted to the Regenesis Anthology 2025 competition. Like many bloggers, I am finding it difficult to find the words in this world that seems so full of turmoil in the daily news.  The world as I have known it, across the almost 80...

Mulkun Wirrpanda’s 'Rarrirarri', photographed by Diana Panuccio, Art Gallery of NSW Indigeneity and Multiculturalism As the world’s ‘most successful multicultural nation’, the articulation of the Australian Way, being advocated by the Albanese Government, must not...

What Sets Us Apart? While the sharks circle, and the storm clouds gather on the horizon, can the good ship "the Australian Way" continue to deliver the 'good life' that Australians have come to expect, as the world's 'most successful multicultural nation', sailing on...

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Productivity Most economists are still arguing about Australia’s need to ‘improve our living standards’, advocating productivity as the solution. Lachlan Vass, a Fellow of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute of the prestigious ANU Crawford School of Public Policy,...

Jagera Jagera, (pronounced jag-ee-ra) is named after the beautiful foam bark tree, an important local rainforest regeneration pioneer and traditional resource of the Yaegl people.  Join Us We are a diverse group of like hearted people co-creating a small community...

Call for Entries: REGENESIS 2025 – A Creative Invitation to Imagine ‘Living Sustainably’ Resilient Blue Mountains in collaboration with The Enlightenment Network and Rosey Ravelston Books, is proud to announce the return of the REGENESIS Anthology – a creative...

The Work of the Enlivenment Network Here in the Enlivenment Network, we are trying to develop this pathway through the debris of Modernity and its mirror companion, Coloniality. The deep-seated alienation and dissociation we see in rising anxiety and depression among...

Kindlehill - Buran Nalgarra We asked, What ecological services to the community of life does/could our School provide, if we mimic or take inspiration from the swamp elder at Wentworth Falls Lake? Eco-systems Thinking and specifically, Biomimicry have been the...

As we ponder the rise and rise of authoritarianism, resurgent ethnic nationalism and reactive misogyny across the world—from the Taliban in Afghanistan to the US under Trump 2.0—we are forced to consider the nature of ourselves as the human species, the ace-predators...

Gesturing Toward Re-Enchantment Tarik Cutuk: Continuing my musings on some philosophical challenges As remarked by the great Australian anthropologist, Bill Stanner, in his collection of essays (1979), it is commonly remarked amongst some Aboriginal people that White...

Indigenous Knowledge in What Sense? Tarik Cutuk: To continue my musing on gesturing towards post colonial futures While the diffusion of Indigenous Knowledges into the Australian mainstream is now widely officially supported within government institutions and policy...