WE NEED TO KEEP WIKIPEDIA ALIVE & EVER-WATCHFUL 20 June: An important update for readers in Australia. This year, Wikipedia has seen fewer visitors and fewer new supporters, so your visit means a lot. We hope that Wikipedia has given you at least $2.75 of knowledge recently. If everyone who finds Wikipedia useful gave $2.75, we'd hit our goal in a few hours. It's been 25 years and Wikipedia is still free. It's still created by pe

It's been spectacular! Almost out of body at times. And tonight's the last night! Not sure how much electricity is used in the making, but it's best to see it while you still can as there are no guarantees in life. Photos: Sydney School of Arts & Humanities If you'd like to join any of our writing groups or are looking for writing classes, contact us at www.ssoa.com.au or email sydneysoa@outlook.com

Peace can be found in writing, and that peace or consolation is a world away from a relentless stream of media that is channelled into our daily lives. It takes sacrifice. Like a guru in search of enlightenment, the writer must embark on an arduous journey, on the ship of imagination, to discover new worlds that lie hidden deep within the mind. For writers of fiction, that ship’s crew, passengers and stowaways are characters conjured up from the fantasies of the navigator who

A journalist, researching a story about separating truth from lies, interviewed a cross-section of the community to survey their opinions. And this is what they said … The Priest declared that to know the truth, you must have faith. The Atheist told the priest it is all just a fairytale. The Politician joked that the assertion by the atheist that there is no god is fake news. The Economist reassured the Politician that a dollar is worth a dollar as long as we all believ