A Story of Art, Resilience, and Bureaucratic Failure This weekend at the HeadOn Photo Festival in Sydney, the world celebrated the work of Abdelrahman Alkahlout, a young Palestinian photojournalist who is rapidly becoming one of the most acclaimed in his field. His award-winning image, “Faith Amidst Genocide,” was awarded the Exposure (Documentary) prize and is on show at the Bondi Pavilion. The central image—of people praying on the rubble where a mosque once stood – is a pr

Puttering down the rivers through the rainforests of Central Kalimantan with my daughter, I think of Tim Tams. No, it is not the cravings of a homesick traveller. It is the thought of rainforests felled for palm oil plantations and their inhabitants, our gentle neighbours, the orangutan, orphaned, kidnapped, homeless, massacred. Tim Tams, like chips, Twisties, toothpaste, soap and shampoo – indeed around half of all packaged products that fill our supermarket shelves – cont

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