by Rosie Martin | Aug 8, 2018 | Blog, Social Justice
At 2am on 11th May 2018, like many other Hobartians, I was standing in the middle of a storm-smashed house ineffectually trying to mitigate inundation and wondering what the morning light would reveal. It caused me to reflect that any sense of control I might feel I...
by Rosie Martin | Aug 12, 2017 | Social Justice
Clockwise from back left: Richard Eccleston (of the Institute for the Study of Social Change), Ant Edler, Margaret Steadman, Rosalie Martin, Mitch McPherson. Photo by Matt Farrell. Tasmania’s Australians of the year for 2017, Rosalie Martin, Mitch McPherson,...
by Rosie Martin | Aug 10, 2017 | Social Justice
Tolerance is a low horizon. It is often held up as a virtue which Australians should display to accommodate the nation’s diversity of human experiences. But it does not lead us toward our richest flourishing, and it is not magnanimous. The word tolerance arises...
by rosaliemartin | Jan 2, 2017 | Blog, Social Justice
Without any effort or intention, without willing it to be so, an image of a glass of water appeared in my mind. It thrills me when visual metaphors shimmer into place, for I have learned that they explain me to me in some surprising way. Into the clear water dropped a...
