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Fair dinkum, that’s good tucker!
Written by Lourdes Gomez
Good tucker that’s not Macca’s! There’s an old expression, “you are what you eat.” I used to think to myself, “I don’t get it…how could I be a cheeseburger? I certainly don’t feel like a cheeseburger.” The Australian Insitute of Health and Welfare indicates that ‘a higher proportion of Indigenous […]
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Lourdes Gomez
I live in Australia where I work as a policy specialist, writer, editor and researcher.
I am a qualified sociologist and currently completing a degree in law.
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Hello neighbour. Would you join us for a coffee?
Written by Lourdes Gomez
In Brisbane, one group is taking active steps to make things more ‘amicable’ between the diverse groups in this fine city.
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I’m a size 7 but my footprint is enormous!
Written by Lourdes Gomez
In reading through the Earth Day article, I decided to google various ‘eco related pages’ and I came across a quiz available on Earth Day 2012 homepage. Then…I probably just took the most shocking quiz of my life, in all the millions and gazillions of quizzes that there are in […]
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Can we survive climate change without democracy?
Written by Lourdes Gomez
After watching this video, my first thoughts were, ‘Island nations that emit .06% of global greenhouse gases are the ones that are disappearing…what?’ I think about what climate change means and I start to break it down, it means that our ecological system is changing, are we ready for it […]
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How the Resource Curse Manipulates Good Governance in Australia
Written by Lourdes Gomez
Natural Resources are supposed to be the greatest gift a country could discover. Undoubtedly, Australia takes advantage of this gift they have discovered. You can “discover” land and resource, but are you really “discovering” it or just finding it again? In a world where everything is about ‘getting rights to […]
