https://www.rickmorton.com.au/home daily 1.0 2026-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/a0546859-21ed-49cb-8ab5-d422e2c3fc85/Screenshot+2026-02-15+at+6.02.16%E2%80%AFAM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613867576459-WF43Q92GDJTBHXPLWMAY/Screen+Shot+2021-02-21+at+11.31.59+am.png Home Rick’s reporting has highlighted multiple policy failures https://www.rickmorton.com.au/contact daily 0.75 2026-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1560683048909-K762GZNS3QNBUTEIFNK1/RickCTA2.jpg Contact https://www.rickmorton.com.au/about daily 0.75 2026-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/da178f75-919f-4d82-b87c-8db90da22908/Rick+HeadShot+copyright+Dany+Weus.png About - Make it stand out Photo: Dany Weus https://www.rickmorton.com.au/work daily 0.75 2024-09-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613788796999-HGBJVPZ2CW2FBCESG089/MYoLV+Cover.jpg Work - My Year of Living Vulnerably From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably. In early 2019, Rick Morton, author of acclaimed, bestselling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt , was diagnosed with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - which, as he says, is just a fancy way of saying that one of the people who should have loved him the most during childhood didn't. So, over the course of twelve months, he went on a journey to rediscover love. To get better. Not cured, not fixed. Just, better. This is a book about his journey to betterness, his year of living vulnerably. It's a book about love. What love is, how we see it, what forms it takes, how we practice it in our lives, what it means to us, and how we really, really can't live without it, even if, like Rick for many years, we think we can. As he says: 'People think they want cars, and they will, to get to jobs and appointments in cities and regions where public transport has failed them. But what gets them into those cars, out of the house, out of bed for God's sake, is love.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613788671568-9KZRSGWLZ2K4OVQADO18/Screen+Shot+2021-02-20+at+1.37.35+pm.png Work - On Money An essay about the power of money to bend time and space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1560485028996-HTKOM5CVD54OJFB2VEPA/one-hundred-years-of-dirt-electronic-book-text20190613-4-785gh8.jpeg Work - One Hundred Years of Dirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613867678890-AG56O6AK7195P7Z00RPM/Screen+Shot+2021-02-21+at+11.31.59+am.png Work - The phone call that denies elderly patients hospital In the thick of a fatal Covid-19 outbreak, a deadly decision is made. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613867802546-SK514FRHSNL0Q4KOIN1D/Screen+Shot+2021-02-21+at+11.36.24+am.png Work - The mine that ate a town On Queensland’s Darling Down, a town has all but disappeared. It was eaten by a controversial mine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613867942688-S3HFS8KHDPTR36NZA46S/Screen+Shot+2021-02-21+at+11.38.46+am.png Work - Sexual abuse survivor rebukes Hillsong head While Brian Houston celebrates Hillsong’s new multimillion-dollar church in New York, a victim of his father’s sexual abuse crowdfunds to pay for cancer treatment. By Rick Morton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613868221492-HDP43TDPF5QBPUXFC6KE/Screen+Shot+2021-02-21+at+11.43.22+am.png Work - Exclusive: Jobactive virus kickbacks top $500 million Government policies have seen the ‘unemployment industry’ paid millions during the pandemic, while jobless rates soar. By Rick Morton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613868475066-25ZSDOFAH4AFG9LHAEHW/Screen+Shot+2021-02-21+at+11.47.35+am.png Work - Fracking on Country in the NT As a senate inquiry launches a scathing critique of the legislative failures that led to the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves, traditional owners in the Northern Territory are fighting a fracking project that threatens water sources and sacred sites. By Rick Morton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613868391245-1KZ6UZARZ1194VODXYY5/Screen+Shot+2021-02-21+at+11.46.13+am.png Work - Exclusive: The seven-year plot to undermine the NDIS After years of careful manoeuvring, the Coalition government is readying to make radical changes to the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The revised system will force new assessments and tighten eligibility. By Rick Morton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d025630c1dd970001e6af7d/1613868301127-9K9PEHK6VIFVGWON7X8G/Screen+Shot+2021-02-21+at+11.44.43+am.png Work - Big picture: Robo-debt, politics and poverty A landmark Productivity Commission report into mental illness provides a road map to reduce harm, but it chafes against deep-seated government ideology. 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