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Rylstone is a gorgeous little heritage town about three and a half hours North-West of Sydney and on the second Saturday of every month it now plays host to an Artisan and Produce market. A gaggle of us popped in the other week to check it out and bumped into the tres talented Brett Nutting …

Just down off Nullo Mountain on the western edge of the Wollemi National Park where I was lucky enough to tag along with a survey party recording indigenous sites. Uncle John Shipp led the team of six up through thick bush to escarpments ringing with the songs of lyrebirds. Up in these panoramic places we …

OMGS! We’ve finally arrived in our own home town! And it was our fearless scout leaders at Club Kooky who got us there. It might’ve taken them 16 years to work their way up from those sweaty underground venues in deepest darkest Darlo to the exalted heights of the Sydney Opera House but last night …

Sometimes it pays to have a day off. Yesterday, for instance, I had the most wonderful birthday by firstly following the advice of corporate anthropologist Genevieve Bell and getting unplugged. I decided not to turn the computer on at all. Instead I went adventuring. I dropped the car in for a service, removed my excellent …

Met up with some lovely ladies at the TEDxSydney last Saturday including the ever vivacious Rachel Vincent and Anna Donohoe who joined us with her ‘Y’ foam cube for a yummy lunch. The second annual talk-fest is a free platform for “ideas worth spreading”, like Corporate Anthropologist Genevieve Bell’s. She was promulgating that wise old …

Not in my backyard, actor tells coalminers Cosima Marriner May 29, 2011 Click here to read SMH article

This month marks the 20th anniversary of a little grass roots community action group that I helped found. It’s the Running Stream Water Users Association (http://runningstream2850.blogspot.com/) based at the gateway to Central New South Wales, Australia. I’ve made a little film about some of the antics that I get up to in support of it …