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Some thoughts
(or, a rage)
Jul 22, 2022
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Omar Sakr
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February 2022
War and...
Bleak is the word that rattles around my skull most. Bleak is the word, bleak is the world. Everywhere we look there is conflict, the ravages of greed…
Feb 25, 2022
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Omar Sakr
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January 2022
Questions and Answers
Sydney Festival Pt 2
Jan 23, 2022
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Omar Sakr
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Sydney Festival
In November last year, I received word that Sydney Festival, one of the premiere art events in Australia, had sought and received $20,000 in funding…
Jan 3, 2022
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Omar Sakr
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Sick and Tired
It’s a new year, and nothing has changed. Back when the pandemic was new, we were told people weren’t taking it seriously enough, and this was why harsh…
Jan 3, 2022
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Omar Sakr
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October 2021
Australia and Authoritarianism
Here’s a snapshot of Australia’s creeping authoritarianism: Decades of militant imprisonment of refugees, following Prime Minister Howard’s public lie…
Oct 22, 2021
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Omar Sakr
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September 2021
Poetic Times
From my keynote, delivered at the 2020 Emerging Writers Festival. Perhaps these are not / poetic / times at all – Nikki Giovanni My poetry is drawn from…
Sep 5, 2021
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Omar Sakr
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August 2021
Virtues and Villains
Recently, YouTube issued a week-long ban to Sky News—a bargain bin channel of outcast “conservatives” owned by Rupert Murdoch—for broadcasting…
Aug 20, 2021
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Instead
Good morning, friends. I’ve been writing an essay for weeks now called something like “Virtue and Villains”, in which I try to unpick the way…
Aug 17, 2021
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Omar Sakr
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Vaxed and Vexed
I wake up often to the sound of a helicopters and sirens. Copters and cops are the norm in Auburn, where I live. It’s one of several LGAs—Leb Gronk…
Aug 7, 2021
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Omar Sakr
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July 2021
Militancy and Media
Good morning, friends. It turns out that while I’m generally unable to work on my poetry and prose before midday, I can still write somewhat critically…
Jul 27, 2021
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Omar Sakr
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Trust and Terror
Let’s chat about everyone’s (least) favourite topic right now, which isn’t so much one subject as many intertwined: lockdowns, vaccines, policing…
Jul 26, 2021
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Omar Sakr
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