David Tyler – (AKA Urban Wronski) was born in England, raised in New Zealand and an Australian resident since 1979. Urban Wronski grew up conflicted about his own national identity and continues to be deeply mistrustful of all nationalism, chauvinism, flags, politicians and everything else which divides and obscures our common humanity. He has always been enchanted by nature and by the extraordinary brilliance of ordinary men and women and the genius, the power and the poetry that is their vernacular. Wronski is now a full-time freelance writer who lives with his partner and editor Shay and their chooks, near the Grampians in rural Victoria and he counts himself the luckiest man alive. A former teacher of all ages and stages, from Tertiary to Primary, for nearly forty years, he enjoyed contesting the corporatisation of schooling to follow his own natural instinct for undifferentiated affection, approval and compassion for the young.
Operation Epic Fury and the Physics of a Global Grave In 1944, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote a short play about three people locked in a room together for eternity. The door was occasionally unlocked. Nobody left. […]
The Knight in Tarnished Armour: Australia’s Hypocrisy and the Iranian Footballers Like Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, Australia wears its albatross with pride; only ours is not a bird, but a shackle of our own making. We […]
They told you Iran’s missiles were being swatted from the sky like blowflies at a backyard barbecue. They told you the Iron Dome was holding the line, the Patriot batteries were doing their job, US […]
PART THREE OF THREE This is the concluding part of a series that began as two pieces and became three, for the same reason this war began as a targeted operation and is becoming something […]
PART TWO OF THREE Trump demands unconditional surrender from a nation of 90 million. Iran elects a hardline new Supreme Leader and rules out any ceasefire. The MAGA coalition fractures. What began as targeted strikes […]
PART ONE OF THREE Operation Epic Fury is not just a war on Iran. It is a war inside the administration that launched it – fought across three continents before the first bomb fell on […]
Truth is the first casualty of war, of course but there is one term in the lexicon of modern warfare, a liar’s bible, an ever-expanding dictionary of deception, a corporate-speak all set up to launder […]
The Albanese government gives us the mushroom treatment. Keeps us all in the dark and feeds us BS. This week, our small target federal government gave a bravura homage to John Cage. While a US-Israeli […]
Reich Is Right About the Chaos. He Misses the Graveyard It’s Heading For. Robert Reich knows a thing or two about how American power works. He served as Labour Secretary under Bill Clinton, has taught […]
Three American soldiers are dead. At least 555 Iranian civilians have been killed across twenty-four provinces, with the toll still rising. One hundred and sixty-five girls, at least, are crushed to death in a missile […]
Trump was told exactly what would happen if he attacked Iran. The warnings were public, repeated and precise. He listened to Netanyahu, to MBS, and to the voice in his own head that craves spectacle […]
148 girls died in Minab. The school had been separated from the nearby military base for a decade. International law exists for precisely this moment. So why is no one reaching for it? Sara Shariatmadar […]
The Hidden Human Cost of Algorithmic Warfare Fresh from their “snuff-movie” hit incinerating Venezuelan fishermen, Team Trump moves yet another carrier strike group into the Persian Gulf. Suddenly, our infotainment airwaves are full of experts […]
It began, as these things do, with grave faces on breakfast television. The nation was informed that the greatest threat to the Australian way of life was not money laundering through Crown towers of glass, […]
Imagine Sarah, nurse at St Vincents, on the Number 96 tram, Melbourne dusk bruising purple outside the windows. Twelve hours done. Her navy scrubs are faded and soft, worn to the shape of her, the […]