Today is May Day. Also known as Labour Day and Eight Hour Day. In Marrickville we will maintain just a little of the May Day spirit in a conversation between the novelist Alan Fyfe and the poets DG Lloyd and Magdalena Ball at our Addi Road Writers’ Festival.
The Australian Council of Social Service have come down to Addi Road today to set up a table outside our Food Pantry and encourage people to send a few Christmas cards to our politicians. It may not be a card they like to get. But every one them is certainly heartfelt, handwritten and true to the experience of everyday Australians dealing with unemployment, poverty and life on the proverbial breadline.
