Dja Wonmuruk teas. Image from Facebook How blending teas helped a young Indigenous woman connect to her culture "I'd made a lemon myrtle and ginger tea, and Sharlee started thinking a little bit more deeply that you can get lemon myrtle tea anywhere. So Sharlee thought maybe strawberry gum might be an interesting addition. "So …
Diggings 21 June 2020
The Case for Letting the Restaurant Industry Die There’s a conflation there of a safety net with employment—and with precarious employment, at that. It’s sort of like saying that because we don’t have socialized mental-health care in this country, that prisons and jails are the closest things we have to that, and so if we …
Diggings 8 June 2020
Jane Goodall: humanity is finished if it fails to adapt after Covid-19 She blamed the emergence of Covid-19 on the over-exploitation of the natural world, which has seen forests cut down, species made extinct and natural habitats destroyed. The coronavirus is thought to have made the jump from animals to humans late last year, possibly originating in …
Diggings 29 May, 2020: COVID – 19 roundup 4# and other good stuff
Comfort Food by Victoria Ying A graphic comicette for these times https://bit.ly/2XFTbHX 'Carefully laid trap'? Why is China imposing tariffs on our barley (and what's a tariff) It's true that Australia imposes its own "countervailing duties" on a wide range of imports, from Thai pineapples to Italian tinned tomatoes, in a bid to support our homegrown …
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