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RAPE CULTURE June 22, 2016Maria Comment I know this is quite late in the ‘news cycle’ but I like to let things ferment in my mind and to sit [...]
82 YEAR OLD GREEK GRANDMOTHER DOING HER THING April 26, 2016April 25, 2016Maria Comment Watch this! This short video gets to the heart of humanity. One Greek grandmother and one refugee family from Iraq. Bound together by [...]
AMY WINEHOUSE – A TRAGEDY NO-ONE STOPPED November 22, 2015March 9, 2016Maria Comment Amy Winehouse. What can anyone say? Everyone knows who she is. Everyone has an opinion about her. Hers is a tale we’ve all [...]
MARRIAGE EQUALITY July 1, 2015March 10, 2016Maria Comment Over the weekend the United States, on a High Court ruling, legalised marriage equality and Facebook turned into, as my friend called it, [...]
PLEASE DON’T KILL MY SON April 30, 2015Maria Comment These are the desperate words that came from Myuran Sukumaran’s mother, Raji. Apart from all the arguments put forth against the use of [...]