Jessica Trichias

Logging has commenced in the Que River area in the Tarkine afters years of campaigning by local communities and organisations to save the nation’s largest temperate rainforest. Sustainable Timbers Australia begun logging in the Que River area on February 4th. However, this has not deterred defenders of the forest, who continue to protest against Sustainable Timbers Australia and the Tasmanian and Australian Government.

Before my recent trip to Turkey, I put seeing a tarot reader at the top of my to-do list, based on the fairy-tale idea that I’d find them all in the lands of the once-great Ottoman and Byzantine Empires.

Some of us binge Netflix, some of us binge eat, some of us binge gossip, some of us overwork and some of us stay in toxic relationships. Some of us would rather just ignore all our bad habits and issues altogether. Arguably, we all have problems stemming from societal pressures of career, relationship and identity issues, but when these problems get in the way and we get ourselves into bad habits, could building our confidence through life coaching be what helps us millennials through it all?

Beneath the beauty of henna designs, the practice of this ancient art and tradition carries a deeper meaning. It is one of the few things that the traditional peoples of Morocco, the Amazigh, are able to keep their history alive with.

Palestinians and their supporters gathered around the State Library in Melbourne for the 70th Anniversary of the Nakba. The Nakba marks the ‘day of catastrophe’ for Palestinians when in 1948, they fled their homelands when Israel was made a state. Since that year, Palestinians have fought against Israel with claims for their right of return and justice for Palestinians.