Lyn Bender

• Lyn Bender is a freelance writer, retired after over 30 years of practice as a psychologist.

  She was the Manager of Lifeline Melbourne and spent six weeks as a psychologist contracted to Woomera Detention Centre. After which, she advocated for refugees.

  Lyn was arrested at the Save the Franklin River Blockade.

  She is currently grappling with writing a novel that may never see the light of day.

  You can follow Lyn on Twitter @lynestel.

Articles written by Lyn Bender (84)

• 25 February 2026 | The olive branch of hypocrisy: Herzog’s tree and Australia's complicity
• 19 August 2025 | Greta Thunberg’s Gaza stance ignites debate on protest and denial
• 21 July 2025 | Segal’s anti-antisemitism role draws criticism over free speech concerns
• 25 June 2025 | Trump and Netanyahu turn to Iran to distract from war crimes
• 3 June 2025 | Israel implementing its horrendous final solution
• 2 May 2025 | The Seinfeld election campaign
• 24 February 2025 | Criticism of Israel and of genocide is not antisemitic
• 21 November 2024 | Tim Winton’s latest novel 'Juice' poses a dreadful question
• 25 October 2024 | Israel proclaims itself chief mourner, as Gaza lies in ruins
• 1 October 2024 | Western world turns its back on Israeli genocide
• 25 March 2024 | Critics of Glazer's Oscars speech prove the relevance of 'The Zone of Interest'
• 7 March 2024 | Israeli propaganda bordering on absurdity
• 3 January 2024 | As death toll rises, Palestinian holocaust being denied by West
• 3 November 2020 | Inside the 'dangerous' mind of President Donald Trump
• 1 October 2020 | Reform in uncaring aged care is needed
• 9 June 2020 | Australia’s structural racism and the pandemic
• 21 April 2020 | Grieving in the time of COVID-19
• 10 January 2020 | The Coalition's toxic denial of climate change is destroying us
• 21 December 2019 | Grief and rage: The emotional impact of a nation on fire
• 4 October 2019 | Trolling Greta Thunberg: How dare they?
• 20 September 2019 | Dear quiet Australians, let’s get loud
• 7 September 2019 | The lessons our leaders can learn from voices of the young
• 19 August 2019 | The climate emergency and post-election trauma
• 31 May 2019 | Rage against the dying of the planet
• 11 November 2018 | Aged care done dirt cheap
• 21 May 2018 | Israel turns 70 as Palestine bleeds and grieves
• 23 October 2017 | Misogyny, violence and machismo in 2017
• 22 August 2017 | Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission and the Catholic confessional sanctity
• 14 August 2017 | Liquidating the Manus Island refugee camp
• 24 July 2017 | Kevin Rudd and Australia's 'No Advantage' refugee shame
• 14 June 2017 | The Finkel Review, fossil fuels and fake climate policy: What price the planet?
• 3 February 2017 | President Trump: A madman in the White House
• 22 November 2016 | Trump is Man: Watch him score
• 5 December 2015 | Malcolm Turnbull: Faking it in Paris
• 13 November 2015 | Turnbull, Hunt & Bishop: Piling on the porkies in Paris
• 8 November 2015 | Dutton and Morrison: Shades of the Third Reich
• 2 November 2015 | Malcolm offers Valium for our post Abbott stress
• 5 October 2015 | No longer Team Abbott — we are now Decent Family Australia
• 18 September 2015 | Exit evil tyrant. Enter loquaciously elegant pragmatist
• 8 September 2015 | Tony Abbott on the couch
• 10 August 2015 | Warning! Racist language
• 1 August 2015 | Sacrificing refugees to win the election
• 7 July 2015 | A Tale of Two Tonys: Whose side are you on?
• 30 June 2015 | Tony Abbott and his abusive government
• 6 June 2015 | The sins of the 'fathers': Catholic Church and Abbott Government on trial
• 19 May 2015 | Don’t feed the homeless or poor — it only encourages them
• 4 May 2015 | Death be not proud: Abbott and Bishop dressed in black
• 16 April 2015 | The Tony Abbott red room of pain
• 5 April 2015 | The murder of Saeed Hassanloo
• 11 March 2015 | Hey, Mr Minister for Women — I am Woman, hear me roar
• 3 March 2015 | Tony Abbott ... meet Dr Carl Jung
• 24 February 2015 | Climate change is real — let’s party!
• 13 February 2015 | Tony Abbott ... meet Sigmund Freud
• 7 February 2015 | Bali Nine's Chan and Sukumaran: Tragic pawns in a political game
• 25 January 2015 | Advance Australia unfair: Je suis les refugees du Manus
• 9 January 2015 | Our mean government and the not so happy season
• 16 December 2014 | Tony Abbott: Faking it but not making it
• 4 December 2014 | Abbott's Brave New World
• 26 November 2014 | It's raining men: Julie Bishop in the power zone
• 13 November 2014 | Tony Abbott and the Age of Stupid
• 22 October 2014 | Time to do better on Ebola, Tony Fiddler
• 7 October 2014 | Tony Abbott sends Australia off to fight the wrong war
• 23 September 2014 | Terrifying Tony's war on unpopularity
• 10 September 2014 | Facing extinction in the land of denial
• 31 July 2014 | Tony Abbott: Israel right or wrong
• 19 July 2014 | Israel's 'little bit fascist' Gaza destruction
• 11 July 2014 | The good, the bad and the unpredictable
• 23 June 2014 | Refugee Week does little to restore hope for asylum seekers
• 10 June 2014 | Suicide is not painless, Mr Morrison
• 31 May 2014 | Captain Abbott and his Titanic climate stupidity
• 13 May 2014 | What if Abbott and his cronies are just a bunch of psychopaths?
• 27 April 2014 | The 'World is Fukt' — OK?
• 7 April 2014 | Murder and mayhem on Manus Island: Scott Morrison and the Salvos
• 12 March 2014 | Tony Abbott and his headless chooks: Environmental abusers
• 25 February 2014 | Reza Berati's death diminishes us all
• 20 February 2014 | Slick Tony's Indigenous insincerity
• 11 February 2014 | Abbott ends Australian Age of Enlightenment
• 6 February 2014 | No country for old men — or women
• 28 January 2014 | Justifying torture in difficult circumstances
• 20 January 2014 | Australia's hidden persecution of refugees
• 14 January 2014 | We have heard an expert — so now we need the opinion of an ignoramus?
• 4 January 2014 | But what if Tony Abbott is just an idiot?
• 28 December 2013 | Don’t miss the bargains! Time to buy more landfill
• 10 December 2013 | A four degrees warmer Australia: Hot not sexy