Archives: Essays

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” Dalai Lama Its best if the Red Cross consults the Dalai Lama to get the money to where it’s supposed to go. Red Cross workers should get better pay and conditions and better security. Afghanistan is a hot spot that needs more aid […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul and the late Edward De Bono were and are the worlds top intellectuals and now my previous education university lecturer Marianne Hulsbosch is the worlds top […]

The Australian Patrick White was awarded the 1973 Nobel Literature Prize “for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature”, as it says in the Swedish Academy’s citation. After my favourite Japanese author Haruki Murakami the late Patrick White is my second favourite author and was homosexual. I have […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” Dalai Lama Can the world leaders step up to the plate and donate 100 billion dollars to Oxfam International to save countless lives in Africa and Asia over a twelve month plan. Middle class people who live in the […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. “ Dalai Lama This essay is dedicated to my dearly departed best friend Nick Cuttell and his brother Ash and parents Frank and Barbara who have been looking after me from a distance for decades. Nick passed in 1991. Nick was electrocuted in […]

Essay by Luke Foster “ I wanted to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.” Joseph Beuys The late German artist Joseph Beuys was my favourite artist at art school […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as the first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is the wife of former President Barack Obama. Raised on the […]

Essay by Luke Foster “You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.” Germaine Greer  Germaine Australia’s most loved expat lives in Essex England but when I thought about London for some reason I immediately thought of her. She is a powerful voice for women and women rights. In other words she is a […]

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama World poverty can be overcome with the US government as the world leader with a three trillion plan over ten years. “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” Bill Gates Bill Gates is the ideal […]

Essay by Luke Foster “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” Dalai Lama If all the worlds members of the United Nations give three billion each to Doctors Without Borders then that shall make a huge dent in world poverty in the developing world. Some countries are so dangerous in Africa that only […]

Essay by Luke Foster “My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.” Bono It only dawned on me today how important the social work of U2 leader singer Bono has made by campaigning for the overcoming of world poverty for decades. My favourite U2 song is […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.” Bjork Bjork is my favourite musician and she is a casual genius when it comes to composing her music. But it’s […]

Essay by Luke Foster “ Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at the things in a different way. “ Edward de Bono These pillars of the community need wage rises and better conditions. The Australian SAS should get these particularly as they have looked after me with expert security for […]

Essay by Luke Foster “ Since I was a young girl in the punk scene, almost all of my friends have been gay or lesbian, so for me, it’s an obvious answer when it comes to whether or not gay people should be recognised as equal. “Belinda Carlisle I have seen Belinda Carlisle twice in […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Let’s talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included… something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It’s a Gigantic project.” Joseph Beuys When I was studying at […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.” Antonio Guterres Antonio is doing a fantastic job and should be congratulated for everything he has achieved. Now that the money has largely been given to the poor in the developing world Antonio now has the important […]

“But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.” Anselm Kiefer Kiefer has followed on from Joseph Beuys to get the German people to face up to what they did in the second world war. However I have been to Berlin and […]

“Of all mens miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” Herodotus Herodatus was a Greek writer who is known as the father of history. I studied his book The Histories about the Roman emperors during three unit ancient history in high school. My teacher Sheryl Bremner taught […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” Buddha I try to give things at least four times a day as I find that because I am not a parent I don’t have someone else to care about so the best way to have a kind heart is giving to […]

By Luke Foster Don’t give so much to charities that you can’t pay your own bills. Give maybe $20 or $50 to Oxfam, Unicef or the Red Cross or other charities.  When shopping give loose change to local charities. For example McDonalds in Australia sponsor a children’s hospital/hostel: Ronald McDonald House. When you go to […]

Essay by Luke Foster “If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.” Saint Francis of Assisi One of the best ways to support charity in Australia is to go op shopping. It’s a mutually beneficial deal between you and the charity 2nd hand clothes shops. All their clothes and bric-a-brac is donated […]

Essay by Luke Foster “I respect all religions, but I’m not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn’t brought up in a religious way, but I believe there’s something out there that looks after you.” David Beckham There is a strong link between […]

I have a dream a world without war. I have a dream a world without poverty, homelessness and worries. I have a dream. I have a dream of a game that can heal the world of its miseries. I have a dream of love in all of the far corners of the world. I have […]

Essay by Luke Foster This essay is about themes very familiar to me. When I was young at art school after the death of my best friend Nick at the age of 17 I turned to binge drinking on weekends with my punk friend Brad Seaton. I think I remember him having blue dreadlocks. I […]

Essay by Luke Foster Since the Dada movement of Marcel Duchamp and his contemporaries in the early 20th century there has been a link between performance art and the readymade which inspired the installation art movement in the mid-sixties of Fluxus including artists Joseph Beuys from Germany, Yoko Ono from Japan, Nam Jun Paik from […]