Homeless

Image: Erik Mclea/UnsplashGambling and homelessness are clearly linked. Australians over 50 are particularly vulnerable. They have high rates of regular gambling, and are the fastest-growing age group of...

Picture: Shuttlestock Older women have been recognised as the fastest-growing group of homeless people in Australia in recent years. Yet until now we have not known...

It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...

Who is Jesus Christ? The facts are he was born Yeshua ben Yosef – a simple man from a simple town. Born at a...

I sit in this room, this crumbling room I grew to love, cluttered by the mementoes of a crumbled life. Framed photographs of friends,...

The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...

He aged within the silences of our stilted conversation. His eyes were those of a man who’d seen his kingdoms fall and the survival...

I don’t look in the mirror anymore because it always startles me when I don’t recall the face.This year I had the most solitary...

The trumpets that break the dawn A fanfare to the dying and unborn Passion replaced by duty Love replaced by fear And the ticking of the clock Says “Young...

She died in my arms Not a word was said In silence we rose And got out of our bed Her eyes would flash I knew them too well Every...