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Robbie Lloyd

Pearls and Irritations

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Circularity can revive caring and compassion while sustaining the paradigm of care

Circularity can revive caring and compassion while sustaining the paradigm of care
24.02.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

Stopping the neoliberal bullies dividing up the spoils at our expense

Stopping the neoliberal bullies dividing up the spoils at our expense
15.02.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

Making the commonweal turn, turn, turn again out on Highway 61

Making the commonweal turn, turn, turn again out on Highway 61
12.02.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

Neoliberal learning: Horses for courses and donkeys in the paddock

07.02.2025 7

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

X-raying the architecture of empire and removing some tumours

05.02.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

Hoaxes that gush for winners and trickle down for losers

02.02.2025 8

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

Decency and dignity generate and earn respect

While Bob Menzies pumped the political scare campaign to the max, to help ensure his newly formed Liberal Party’s ongoing popularity between...

05.12.2024 6

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

Within the context of no context… Here comes Donny

Forty four years ago today as I am writing this (17/11/80) the harbinger of Donald Trump appeared in The New Yorker magazine. TV critic George W.S....

24.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

On not being in control, and learning to ‘Go Round’

“It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the...

26.10.2024 3

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

The soulless culture and breakfast of political champions

“Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny” (Charles Reade, 1814-84)...

20.10.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

We’re all tourists here, don’t leave a mess

Pretty soon we’ll be approaching the 40th anniversary of the December 1984 snap Federal Election that Bob Hawke called, just over 18 months after...

10.10.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

We’re all like Golems condemned to life stuck in an Overton echo container with Hanrahan

Counting down the months til the next Federal Election, it’s hard not to feel totally depressed. Anthony Albanese and the gang have obviously been...

23.09.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

Compliance is killing caring

Having recently returned to working at the coalface in aged care, I was starkly reminded of the continuing crippling impact of the mandatory...

23.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd