wipeout.com.au is the website of Wipeout Publications. Wipeout Publications is an Australian-owned publishing shed which was established in 2003 and sells:
Footprints outdoor education workbook and
The colonisation of Australia, as told by a nine-year-old in 1960.
Conservation & ecology |
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A big picture: connectedness between outdoor education, landscape & political reality in Australia by Robbo Bennetts
first published as the "Viewpoint" editorial piece in the Australian journal of outdoor education, Volume 7, No 2, 2003
How does Australia's mountains being worn away explain Australian citizens languishing in a military jail in Cuba? Read this and find out. |
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by Robbo Bennetts
first published in Journeys, the professional journal of the Victorian Outdoor Education Association, Volume 7, No 3, October 2002
We have destroyed, & continue to destroy at an alarming rate, one of nature's most splendid creations. Yet we barely realise it. Don't read this article if you don't want to be seriously disturbed. |
#GenocideInTasmania #FrontierWarfare #FlindersIsland #Truganini
The Black Resistance, Chapter 3: “Tasmania” (1977)
Emotional journeys |
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by Robbo Bennetts
first published in the Age, 5 December 2000, under the title "Closing the book on my first love"
I went out with Felina for about five months. I nursed my broken heart for about five years. (Can an 18-year-old be so in love?) Later, Felina had babies with a succession of pop stars. Or was it only one? I don't know." Read this heart-rending account of youthful passion and its ugly consequences. |
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by Robbo Bennetts
5 August 2016
I could not believe my eyes when my mother stood up and walked towards me. Mum had died years earlier. When she was alive, she was in a wheelchair and I never saw her walk. But this wasn't my mother. It was her sister Elsie, who I hadn’t seen for forty years. For a bewildering moment, though, I had thought it was mum. Auntie Elsie extended her hand and said, "Welcome to Africa." |
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by Robbo Bennetts I want to begin by acknowledging the enduring loss experienced by those whose family members, loved ones and workmates died in Australia’s worst industrial accident. I started on the West Gate Bridge well after the collapse, and I often wondered if only those there on the day could fully comprehend the human dimensions of its tragedy. Decades later, my question was answered when I saw it through the prism of my experience of another catastrophe. Read the full article at https://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-243/feature-the-bridge-and-the-fire/
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