Category Archives: youth activism

The value of a street education

Posted on 4 December 2018 by Peter Boyer

School students, facing a lifetime of climate chaos, have every right to protest in the streets. A few words last week from Scott Morrison and his resources minister, Matt Canavan, could only have widened an already obvious gap between them … Continue reading →

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On marriage, children and the future

Posted on 13 March 2018 by Peter Boyer

Maybe we’re not completely screwed, after all. Last week, among close family and friends, I saw two young people married in a ferny glade on our wonderful mountain. It was a happy event as every wedding should be. Weddings are … Continue reading →

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Pussy Riot brings its defiant message to Hobart

Posted on 20 June 2017 by Peter Boyer

Brave young warriors put their case for a more civil Russia Russia. Enormous, harsh, lonely, puzzling, stubborn, crazy. Unique. I visited European Russia in 1978 during Leonid Brezhnev’s Soviet regime –not for the politics, which thoroughly repelled me, but because … Continue reading →

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