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Robbie Lloyd

Pearls and Irritations

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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 9

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 10

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 10

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 10

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 reporting...

23.08.2024 7

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

Managerialism is crushing the human connection: The care economy series

Unpacking the care economy, Dr Robbie Lloyd investigates some of the key issues impacting our communities in a series of articles that explore ageing,...

01.04.2024 9

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

Compliant, complicit, cringing: Caught in the neoliberal three Cs

Life in the era of end-stage Neoliberalism feels like a sci-fi script. While far right zealots gain ground with media clickbait frenzies promoting...

06.03.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Robbie Lloyd

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