Free Range
Free Range By Stewart A Levitt, 8 August 2020 In casual, summer sleeves and with Fargo, Yankee sounds,the pale cop feels unbound and vaguely sneersas the dark man’s head is squashed into the ground:That black face, stained with fear and grimy tears,calling for his dead, sweet mama:The man on top, intense, no drama:rending cries, hushed […]
NineNews’ story of May 18 is the REAL RORT
NineNews’ story of May 18 is the REAL RORT When Alex Heinke interviewed me for Channel 9 News Brisbane last Thursday, he did not seem particularly interested in anything that I had to say. Surprising, since the story was on the Palm Island compensation pay-out and I am the lawyer ultimately responsible for it. I […]
Praise for the Poem
Praise for the Poem Half of “Too Soon To Be Late” was written from 1998 onwards and the other half, over the past couple of years. “Too Soon To Be Late” is a chronicle of key events in my life, in which I reveal my passions, vulnerabilities and anger, and rail against racism, inhumanity and […]
The Virus is Racism
The Virus is Racism It is mischievous and unfair to tag a virus as the Chinese Virus. Is AIDS the American Immunodeficiency Syndrome or the Gay Virus or the monkey virus? Did the Spaniards introduce a new more virulent strain of Syphilis to Europe from the Americas? European colonisers exported smallpox, measles, typhus and cholera […]
Anthony Lister and the #MeToo Movement
Anthony Lister and the #MeToo Movement #MeToo Movement’s has the capacity to vindicate women’s rights or destroy its own credibility and set back the cause of women – a cause which should be adopted by us all. In the late 40’s and 50’s, it was easy to accuse and black- ban so-called “Communists” and “Fellow […]
Impeachable You
Impeachable You Sydney, 15 August 2020 It started as a microbe,a pernicious Russian germ,which invaded social media –crossed into US sperm.Mueller’s penetrating probeproved a prevalent infectionand foreign interferencewith American erections.Sadly, Lady Liberty’sgrown a metastatic lump.The pathogen’s been identified:Its name is Donald Trump.He feeds on fast food, sleaze and trash,and spews out falsehoods, unabashed.‘Base’ States will […]
Free Range
Free Range By Stewart A Levitt, 8 August 2020 In casual, summer sleeves and with Fargo, Yankee sounds,the pale cop feels unbound and vaguely sneersas the dark man’s head is squashed into the ground:That black face, stained with fear and grimy tears,calling for his dead, sweet mama:The man on top, intense, no drama:rending cries, hushed […]
NineNews’ story of May 18 is the REAL RORT
NineNews’ story of May 18 is the REAL RORT When Alex Heinke interviewed me for Channel 9 News Brisbane last Thursday, he did not seem particularly interested in anything that I had to say. Surprising, since the story was on the Palm Island compensation pay-out and I am the lawyer ultimately responsible for it. I […]
Praise for the Poem
Praise for the Poem Half of “Too Soon To Be Late” was written from 1998 onwards and the other half, over the past couple of years. “Too Soon To Be Late” is a chronicle of key events in my life, in which I reveal my passions, vulnerabilities and anger, and rail against racism, inhumanity and […]
The Virus is Racism
The Virus is Racism It is mischievous and unfair to tag a virus as the Chinese Virus. Is AIDS the American Immunodeficiency Syndrome or the Gay Virus or the monkey virus? Did the Spaniards introduce a new more virulent strain of Syphilis to Europe from the Americas? European colonisers exported smallpox, measles, typhus and cholera […]
Anthony Lister and the #MeToo Movement
Anthony Lister and the #MeToo Movement #MeToo Movement’s has the capacity to vindicate women’s rights or destroy its own credibility and set back the cause of women – a cause which should be adopted by us all. In the late 40’s and 50’s, it was easy to accuse and black- ban so-called “Communists” and “Fellow […]
Impeachable You
Impeachable You Sydney, 15 August 2020 It started as a microbe,a pernicious Russian germ,which invaded social media –crossed into US sperm.Mueller’s penetrating probeproved a prevalent infectionand foreign interferencewith American erections.Sadly, Lady Liberty’sgrown a metastatic lump.The pathogen’s been identified:Its name is Donald Trump.He feeds on fast food, sleaze and trash,and spews out falsehoods, unabashed.‘Base’ States will […]