ABC's The Drum publishes one of my blog pieces

See http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4771612.html - especially the very interesting responses.

On becoming a butcher in Paris

This post has been edited and included in my new Kindle e-book anthology 'Becoming a Butcher in Paris and other short essays'.

Feedback on my Vietnam piece - heartfelt thanks

I have been really gratified at the thoughtful and universally supportive comments on my post about the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. My faith in human nature has been ever so slightly restored, despite the daily onslaught of muck from the Australian political scene.

My stubooks blog posts go out on Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Please keep reading, whichever medium you see me on, and I'll try to keep writing pieces that (I hope) will stimulate thought, that precious commodity that our leaders seem bent on turning into knee-jerk responses to ever more banal stimuli.

134 reasons why war reporting should not be censored

This post has been edited and included in my new Kindle e-book anthology 'Becoming a Butcher in Paris and other short essays'.