Full Circle, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2021 When reality doesn’t fit the model, she’s trying to teach us something. Ludlam, 2021 When confronted with a chaotic world from which earlier certainties and ideals seem to have vanished it’s tempting to re-focus on more manageable ... Read More

A Spirit of Play. The Making of Australian Consciousness. ABC Books, Sydney, 1998 David Malouf’s attractive little book is derived from his 1998 series of Boyer lectures and it provides a refreshingly different overview of ‘where we are’ during this time. He begins by point... Read More

The futures of women: scenarios for the 21st century,  Addison Wesley, 1996; 288 pages The futures of women has been a sensitive topic that very few futures writers have tackled, or have tackled well. As the authors note, for one or another reason, neither Paul Kennedy, Peter Dr... Read More

Hell and High Water: Climate Change, Hope and the Human Condition, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2008, 289 pp + ix As this review was being drafted bushfires were raging in the southern state of Victoria. Marysville and other small towns nearby had been blasted out of existence leaving onl... Read More

Cave in the Snow, Bloomsbury, London, 1998. Reading and reviewing books about the future makes it clear that ‘the road ahead’ (to use a well-known metaphor) is primarily seen in terms of the development of economies and technical systems. Such a view is not limited to economi... Read More

Beyond the Limits: Global Collapse or a Sustainable Future, Earthscan, London, 300 pp. As we near the end of the second millenium, the view that humankind is passing through a major transition is gaining ground. Part of the credit for this must go to the Club of Rome (COR). For ... Read More