Like a porcelain doll …

| June 18, 2011

She’s fragile. Like a porcelain doll that’s fallen and broken so many times that the glue now sits in lumps at the joins, Tobi’s residual feline leprosy tumours are a reminder of the disease that almost killed her. After 6 weeks of twice daily antibiotics with the leprosy worsening at an exponential rate we stopped the [...]

From little things big things grow …

| June 8, 2011

This is the title of a Paul Kelly song that tells the story of Vincent Lingiari, an Australian Aboriginal rights activist, who staged a walk-off of indigenous employees from Wave Hill Cattle Station in the Northern Territory over pay and work conditions. Given the human rights issues, and Vincent having worked on a major cattle [...]