A great deal is going to be written over the coming days and weeks about what we have just witnessed – much of it motivated by a disbelief and unnerving need to make sense of yesterday’s portentous outcome, as is …
As has been said many times here, words matter. But what too many corporations fail to grasp is that what you say must be backed up by ‘what you do’. Nowhere is this more important than in the area of …
On Saturday Words/Matter saw a half page advert in the weekend SMH, with a call to all members of Federal Parliament from the leaders of Catholic Religious Australia “to release children and their families from immigration detention” in time for …
A new bus advert in Sydney (at least that’s where we saw it) has perplexed Words/Matter this week. The ad, for one of those protein drinks for gym bunnies, features a good-looking fit young man with a good-looking fit young …
Soon after Tony Abbott was elected PM, a rather macabre pun started doing the rounds within (progressive) not-for-profit circles that we were all now living in “the Abbott-oir”. And indeed, it is now widely accepted the first Abbott Government budget …
This week saw something momentous happen, at least in the eyes of Words/Matter. Admittedly it was more about something that was done, rather than something that was said, but nevertheless was very important for the way it was explained.…
This week, as reported by the Weekend Australian newspaper, Federal Arts Minister George Brandis said of his controversial restructuring of arts sector funding:
“The only people who have anything to fear from this program, frankly, are the mediocre, because they’re …
Why is this blog called “Words/Matter”?
And what’s with the backslash?
Let me explain: we’ve all heard of the refrain ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’. This is really it in a nutshell. What I’ve come to realise is …
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in – Rosa Parks
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion – Dalai Lama…