“What’s going on here?” a middle-aged man asks. He stands at the table set up by Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) outside Addi Road’s Food Pantry Marrickville. I tell him we are helping put together Christmas cards from people who are unemployed and...
“I don’t want to be the rock ‘n’ roll guy anymore. I want to be the healer.” Bartley Melocco speaks like a man with a purpose. There’s a lot of pride and amusement around his past as a roadie and production rigger. But Bartley changed direction in life long ago and...
What do we make of ourselves in the time of Covid-19? What kind of face might we have behind our masks? How do we cope with a year that began in fire and smoke, and closes with the same environmental nightmare looming? All the while, we must learn how to cope with the...
As Christmas approaches, we felt it was important we remember our Community.a.Fair event during Mental Health Month last October. Most especially, a remarkable panel conversation put together by Addison Road Community Organisation. It featured Camilla Martin from...
