David Lowe (@davidlowe.bsky.social)

David Lowe

@davidlowe.bsky.social

Annoying vegan who likes music and movies, words and wombats, paddling and pedalling.

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David Lowe

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Me in the Echo today #auspol #politics www.echo.net.au/2026/10/can-...

echo.net.auCan independents save democracy?Senator David Pocock was already booked for the National Press Club when Helen Haines was attacked outside her office, but this shocking event put a sombre spotlight on his speech, which focused on th...

David Lowe

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Today on Patreon and Gumroad, Fred and Mary Ann are separated in part 3 of 'Thunderbolt's Lady' www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comThunderbolt's Lady (part 3) | David LoweA feature film script in nine parts. Two worlds, one love, no second chance. An outlaw love story from a dangerous time. Based on the life o

David Lowe

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Great ride Around the Bay yesterday. Thanks to the photogs!

David Lowe

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Me in the Echo today #auspol www.echo.net.au/2026/10/trea...

echo.net.auTreasurer Jim Chalmers on facts and feelingsLogan boy made good Jim Chalmers fronted up to the Australia Institute in Canberra last week to give a memorable and candid speech about the challenges facing his government, and the nation.

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New from me today on Patreon and Gumroad www.patreon.com/posts/172524...

patreon.comLost Works | David LoweStuff is just stuff, they say, but sometimes it doesn't feel like it.

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Me in the Echo today #auspol www.echo.net.au/2026/10/righ...

echo.net.auRight wing ratbags gather in Brisbane for CPACJust wrapped in Brisbane, this year's Australian Conservative Political Action Conference featured a galaxy of nutters vying for the votes of the disaffected, disorganised and dangerous.

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Today's brand new story from me on Patreon and Gumroad www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comDying For Ugg Boots | David LoweThe job was supposed to be simple. Shoot the ugg boot factory, come home. The problem was that it was too far to drive and make the deadline

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Me in the Echo today #auspol www.echo.net.au/2026/10/davi...

echo.net.auDavid Shoebridge takes the helm at a time of crisisSurprising many inside the party and out, David Shoebridge has been chosen as the new leader of the Australian Greens, with Steph Hodgins-May as deputy.

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New from me on Patreon and Gumroad today www.patreon.com/posts/171312...

patreon.comRiding to School | David LoweRiding to School by David Lowe on Patreon. Join David Lowe's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Today's Patreon flashback is 'Wild River Blockade', the epic story of the fight for the Franklin www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comWild River Blockade | David LoweWild River Blockade by David Lowe on Patreon. Join David Lowe's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Me in the Echo today www.echo.net.au/2026/09/what...

echo.net.auWhat's wrong with this picture?Anthony Albanese’s recent performance on the world stage in New York was a breathtaking piece of rhetorical acrobatics.

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Today on Patreon and Gumroad is part 2 of my screenplay 'Thunderbolt's Lady' www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comThunderbolt's Lady (part 2) | David LoweThunderbolt's Lady (part 2) by David Lowe on Patreon. Join David Lowe's community for exclusive content and updates.

David Lowe

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20 Sept

Me in the Echo today www.echo.net.au/2026/09/tony...

echo.net.auTony Burke and the immigration icebergIn a speech to the National Press Club, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has attempted to redefine the immigration debate. But what lies beneath?

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20 Sept

Something new on Patreon and Gumroad today, first peek at an interactive text game I've been developing called 'Elsinork', about a depressed Danish prince. Can you help get him out of his rut? www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comElsinork | David LoweTo click or not to click, that is the question! 'Elsinork' is a multi-path text adventure about a depressed prince, set in Denmark. Can you

David Lowe

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13 Sept

My coverage of the Screenworks conference in today's Echo www.echo.net.au/2026/09/regi...

echo.net.auRegional to Global brings movers and shakers of the screen industry to Lennox HeadWhen around 300 screen practitioners gathered at Lennox Head last week for ScreenWorks' two-day Regional to Global Screen Forum, the setting was half the story. Here was a serious industry conversatio...

David Lowe

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13 Sept

Me in the Echo today #auspol www.echo.net.au/2026/09/angr...

echo.net.auAngry energy, from digital duty of care to forestsThe government's draft bill for a new approach to online safety is currently up for public discussion, and various people are getting hot under the collar about it, particularly those whose political ...

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12 Sept

Today's Patreon/Gumroad short story is a new one www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comThe Queue | David LoweHe looks up to see they're all here, standing in a queue waiting for lunch.

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9 Sept

Today's Patreon flashback is my bike opera, 'Human Race' www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comHuman Race | David LoweLive on wheels... The revolution will not be motorised!

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7 Sept

Me in the Echo today #auspol www.echo.net.au/2026/09/gove...

echo.net.auGovernment sells out Pacific, NT, AustraliaLast week the government demonstrated its flagrant disregard for science and common sense from Washington to Palau, and from Canberra to Darwin.

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6 Sept

Funny new short story from me on Patreon/Gumroad today www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comKnees | David LoweKnees by David Lowe on Patreon. Join David Lowe's community for exclusive content and updates.

David Lowe

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30 Aug

Me in the Echo today www.echo.net.au/2026/08/less...

echo.net.auLessons from Secret HarbourHeld by Labor since 1989, Pauline Hanson's One Nation has comfortably won the Western Australian state lower house seat of Secret Harbour in Saturday's by-election, sending shockwaves across the count...

David Lowe

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29 Aug

On my Patreon and Gumroad today, part one of a love story from a dangerous time www.patreon.com/posts/168002...

patreon.comThunderbolt's Lady (part 1) | David LoweA feature film script in nine parts. Two worlds, one love, no second chance. An outlaw love story from a dangerous time. Based on the life o

David Lowe

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26 Aug

Today's Patreon flashback story www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comTime Lapse | David LoweLater, the two friends only saw each other rarely, once every few years, but the conversation continued as though no time at all had passed.

David Lowe

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23 Aug

Me in the Echo today #auspol www.echo.net.au/2026/08/labo...

echo.net.auLabor and Liberal join forces on multiple frontsLast week, government and opposition found themselves singing from the same song sheet in parliament on a range of issues, from the NDIS to ASIO, and big tech to gambling advertising.

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23 Aug

Something special for post #250 for my Cloudcatcher and Patreon supporters www.patreon.com/posts/167186...

patreon.comFay | David LoweFor my 250th post on Patreon, something special for supporters.

David Lowe

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19 Aug

Me in the Echo today #books www.echo.net.au/2026/08/day-...

echo.net.auDay 3 wraps 30th year of Byron Writers FestivalThe final day of my 2026 Byron Writers Festival went from John Howard's pernicious effect on Australia to poetry in the dark; from being funny about serious things to first time writers made good, and...

David Lowe

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18 Aug

Byron Writers Fest day 2 coverage from me in today's Echo www.echo.net.au/2026/08/myth...

echo.net.auMyths, mining and the manosphere under the microscope at BWFSaturday's program at the 2026 Byron Writers Festival covered a lot of ground, from politics to favourite novels, from myths to the manosphere.

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17 Aug

Echo today www.echo.net.au/2026/08/kerr...

echo.net.auKerry O'Brien says what he really thinksThis year's Byron Writers Festival witnessed a remarkable lecture from the legendary and much-loved journalist Kerry O'Brien, now a Northern Rivers local, on 'Lessons From History'.

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17 Aug

Byron Writers Festival Day 1 coverage in today's Echo www.echo.net.au/2026/08/tear...

echo.net.auTears, anger and joy at 2026 Byron Writers FestThere was a lot less mud and a lot more walking at this year's glorious celebration of words, the Byron Writers Festival, which took place in a series of venues around Byron Bay over the last three da...

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17 Aug

Me on the NDIS today www.echo.net.au/2026/08/gove...

echo.net.auGovernment races to transform NDISAfter six days of public hearings, the Senate inquiry into the NDIS amendments tabled its final report on Friday. Most of the critical findings are likely to be ignored by the Albanese government, whi...

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15 Aug

Today's Patreon story is a big TV concept I developed 30 years ago! www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comHeron | David LoweHeron by David Lowe on Patreon. Join David Lowe's community for exclusive content and updates.

David Lowe

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9 Aug

Me in the Echo today #gambling #auspol www.echo.net.au/2026/08/what...

echo.net.auWhat would induce the PM to change course on gambling advertising?With parliament still on winter break, last week's most explosive revelations in Canberra came from the Senate committee examining the government's proposed gambling reforms.

David Lowe

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8 Aug

Brand new story from me today on Patreon www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comWine Spies | David LoweThe screenwriting get-together was organised at an exclusive hotel in the middle of the wine country. Each day, tractors could be seen spray

David Lowe

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2 Aug

Me in the Echo today #auspol www.echo.net.au/2026/08/can-...

echo.net.auCan Ben Carroll stop the orange wave?Can boring beat bonkers? The Victorian Labor Party apparently thinks so, having chosen Ben Carroll as the state's new premier.

David Lowe

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1 Aug

Today's story from me is free to read on Gumroad davidjlowe1970.gumroad.com/p/people-are...

davidjlowe1970.gumroad.comPeople are just peopleWhen I was a kid, it used to drive me crazy when my father said, 'People are just people'. What did it even mean? Five years since he left the planet,

David Lowe

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26 July

Me in the Echo today #auspol www.echo.net.au/2026/07/labo...

echo.net.auLabor keeps its arguments out of sight, mostlyThe Australian Labor Party's 50th Annual Conference, at the Adelaide Convention Centre, was a tightly stage-managed affair.

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19 July

Me in the Echo today www.echo.net.au/2026/07/nati...

echo.net.auNationals and water should never be mixedMore justification of this adage has arrived with Nationals' MP Kevin Hogan's response to the next level stupidity known as the final report of the Northern Rivers Resilience Initiative (NRRI).

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18 July

Today's Patreon/Gumroad story from me is about real estate advertising www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comFaces on signs | David LoweEvery neighbourhood has them. Unelected community ambassadors. Self promoters. Are they selling houses, or selling themselves?

David Lowe

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12 July

Me in the Echo today www.echo.net.au/2026/07/anar...

echo.net.auAnarchy in the UK?After going through six prime ministers in the last ten years, the not-so United Kingdom is likely to soon notch up its seventh.

David Lowe

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12 July

www.echo.net.au/2026/07/anar...

echo.net.auAnarchy in the UK?After going through six prime ministers in the last ten years, the not-so United Kingdom is likely to soon notch up its seventh.

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12 July

Today's new piece from me on Patreon and Gumroad is about the big smoke www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comScared of the city | David LoweMaybe it's time to get over being scared of the city. Not any city, just this particular one. It's not the city's fault all these things hap

David Lowe

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5 July

Me in the Echo today www.echo.net.au/2026/07/wint...

echo.net.auWinter of discontent for big data opponentsWhile Australia's parliamentarians were frocking up for the mid-winter ball last week, representatives of the nation's authors, musicians and artists were in Canberra pleading for assurances that the ...

David Lowe

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5 July

Brand new short story from me today. Free to read on Patreon! www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...

patreon.comRogue Intelligence | David LoweIn the end, the attack didn't take the form anyone was expecting. The rogue intelligence was developed by a private company at the behest o

David Lowe

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30 June

Today's Patreon flashback from me is 'Out of the Box' chapter 7, in which things take a very tragic turn, in the classic Australian tradition www.patreon.com/DavidJLowe/p...