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  • Looking for Work Has Never Been Easy — and It’s Never Been Harder

    Looking for Work Has Never Been Easy — and It’s Never Been Harder

    by Alex Sturman, PCC Looking for work has always carried a certain emotional weight. Even under the best circumstances, there is something exposing about it. You take years of experience, mistakes, growth, leadership, conflict, resilience, skill — all the complicated parts of being an actual human being — and compress them into a few pages…

  • Pip and Marloo from the Far Forest

    Pip and Marloo from the Far Forest

    When Marloo the goanna arrives in Willow Glen from faraway Bunyip State Forest, the animals of Pip’s forest grow wary of their unfamiliar visitor. But Pip is curious. As he shows Marloo around the woodland and introduces him to his friends, the forest begins to discover that belonging sometimes begins with curiosity rather than fear.

  • Weaponised Liberty

    Weaponised Liberty

    When freedom shields the radical, not the righteous. Part of the ‘Not Quite What You Meant’ series By: Ezra Nadav There is a dangerous irony unfolding in the heart of liberal democracies: the very freedoms designed to protect the vulnerable are now shielding those who terrorise them. In the name of justice, progress, and liberation,…

  • When Protest Becomes Performance

    When Protest Becomes Performance

    Part of the ‘Not Quite What You Meant’ series By: Ezra Nadav In a time when political conviction is often measured by volume and visibility, it’s easy to forget that how we speak can matter just as much as what we say. This piece isn’t a defence of power or politeness—it’s a call to think…