Very disappointing reporting by @theguardian.com. Critique of methodology is a good thing, but framing routine scientific debate as a "bombshell" is irresponsible and dangerous, especially given all that we do conclusively know about the dangers of plastic.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australia's arts industry is already so small and habitually threatened. It's hard to feel anything but grief at the successive loss of festivals and platforms, as well the increasing, censorious overreach by politicians and lobby groups. Like cultural wildfire.

“The raison d’être of art and literature is to disrupt the status quo: and one doesn’t have to be a student of history to know that art in the service of “social cohesion” is propaganda”.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The word Melaleuca comes from the Greek mélas (black) and leukós (white). The tree's signature bark, made from pale, paper-like layers of cork, blackens not only from fire, but tannins from decomposition in soil and water. A litmus of life and death.

Mullumbimby and the Infinite Sadness.