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Ditch Shoes, Retreat to Sea

6/5/2015

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I roll down my window and stare at the feet of the guy standing next to his wrecked car. He smiles and turns his thumbs down as steam rises from the bonnet. Why isn’t he wearing shoes? The sun is hot and my feet ache as I wonder how his haven't burnt. “It’s practically the uniform here,” John, our driver, laughs.

The fumes hit us as the lights turn green and we drive to the airport, home bound. I’m chilled out but tired, like my shoeless buddy on the road, whose Zen attitude sums up my week at Cabarita Ocean Health Retreat in northern New South Wales.
                                                               
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How Big Are Your Balls? Tackling foil waste ...

6/5/2015

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 It may seem no price is too high for the woman flaunting her freshly styled hair. She's worth it, all-too-familiar commercials tell us, and naturally, so are you.

Australians have flocked to hair salons, highlighting their locks, for around thirty years. Foiling has become popular thanks to the simplicity it offers.

But while aluminium foil gives with one hand, it takes with the other, stripping the earth of precious resources. Processing foil costs us massive amounts of energy and water. 
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Every day, more blood...

3/5/2015

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Image by DVIDSHUB at flickr.com
People are killed so frequently in Iraq that I hardly react when I see that more than 300 Yazidi prisoners were slaughtered by IS militants this week. I’ve almost developed immunity to this news, which saddens me. I don’t want to take for granted the alarming amount of blood that's being shed, it should always shock.

Seven Iraqi women have faced this reality for too long and share so much of themselves in the documentary Ten Years of My Life. I reviewed this film last year at the Arab Film Festival for Sajjeling magazine. You can
read it here.

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