Food Security, Social Justice and Donna Summer

by Mark Mordue | Jan 21, 2021

Towards the end of 2020 our Food Pantry Manager, Damien Moore, reckoned he’d been working so hard the time had come to drag him away “in a straitjacket singing that Donna Summer song, ‘Enough is Enough (I can’t go on no more!)’. I mean, it has been a pretty...

Matthew’s Christmas Ecosystem

by Mark Mordue | Dec 24, 2020

Matthew starts making Christmas cards in November. He creates them by hand and sends them off to friends across the country and overseas. Heading into December he’s usually finished all of them. “I do it to make this time of year less lonely,” he says. But when he is...

Not Forgotten – Addi Road’s Hampers of Hope and Mobilising for Mogo

by Mark Mordue | Dec 22, 2020

You want to use the word ‘dynamo’ when you see Sallianne McClelland in action. She seems to run on to the stage at Gumbramorra Hall in Marrickville like a gold medallist winning the race of a lifetime. She’s been asked to speak to the volunteers who are packing our...

Red Frogs pick up Hampers of Hope

by Mark Mordue | Dec 16, 2020

Red Frogs have come in to pick up some of Addi Road’s ‘Hampers of Hope’. As Justin explains, they basically do their best to “take care of drunk teenagers and youth at risk”. Red Frogs first made their presence felt at things like Schoolies on the Gold Coast. This was...

Raising Voices

by Mark Mordue | Dec 5, 2020

Justo Diaz is a legend of the Latin American music scene, and a pioneer in Australia of what became known as World Music long before the term was invented. He was one of the key creators behind La Peña in Newtown, a seminal Sydney venue that deserves a book being...