The Eternal Caveat: I didn’t write the headline (most of the time).
Articles/Essays
- Has Australia’s dingo management gone to the dogs? (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Victoria’s horse racing industry jockeys in political-favours sweepstakes (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Warren Mundine wants an audit of Indigenous funding. How about the charity he chairs? (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Treasury is missing the big picture on climate (The Monthly, 2023)
- Who’s at the party? The thriving business of corporate access to politicians (Michael West Media, 2023)
- All the way with Anthony A – Labor locks in AUKUS support despite union opposition (Michael West Media, 2023)
- The ayes have it – ALP conference flashpoints fizz out (Michael West Media, 2023)
- A calm caucus or ruckus over AUKUS – will Labor Party delegates toe the Albo line? (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Australia’s Greens Aren’t the Ones Blocking New Housing (Jacobin, 2023)
- Report claims super funds are lying to their members on climate risk (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Taxpayer-funded finance groups hit with Federal Court law suit over support for fossil fuel industry projects (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Did someone say labour exploitation? Key question missed in Jokowi’s EV battery deal (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Labor shows ambition on political donations reform. But influence of big money untamed (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Donation reform here at last? (The Monthly, 2023)
- Nordic Nah: independent report opens new fault lines in carbon capture and storage’s star projects (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Behind the ‘Bali Bonk Ban’ (Arena, 2023)
- Carbon offsets stampede: Australian polluters are spending big in Indonesia (Michael West Media, 2023)
- Tax Write-Offs and Cheap Finance Built Australia’s Housing Crisis — Public Housing Can Solve It (Jacobin, 2023)
- Australians Under 40 Must End Neoliberalism for Good (Jacobin, 2023)
- Could this one reform stop Australia from going to war with China? (Michael West Media, 2023)
- The return of public power to Victoria? (Overland, 2022)
- Renewable energy’s power-lines problem (The Monthly, 2022)
- CoalKeeper is dead but Chris Bowen’s New Energy Scheme is secret like Dan Andrews’ (Michael West Media, 2022)
- Beyond the Vales: towering profits and squalid PR tactics at the twilight of the coal boom (Michael West Media, 2022)
- Zero-sum game: questions surround Australia’s electricity transition (Michael West Media, 2022)
- Australia’s Private Energy Market Is Rigged to Guarantee Corporate Profits (Jacobin, 2022)
- It’s Time for Australia to Demand Julian Assange’s Release (Jacobin, 2022)
- Reform, say vets who know the horrors of war, yet most politicians say status quo (Michael West Media, 2022)
- War Powers Inquiry: “just as Britain has the Gurkhas, the Americans have us?” (Michael West Media, 2022)
- Flaps up and blinkers on: politicians happy with the unknown unknowns of fighting war (Michael West Media, 2022)
- Don’t mention the war powers: what’s behind Labor’s silence on inquiry? (Michael West Media, 2022)
- This means war: how Australia’s main allies take the biggest step a nation can take (Michael West Media, 2022)
- White and might is right: the secrets which push us into other people’s wars (Michael West Media, 2022)
- Local governments are being pushed out of aged care. But at what cost? (Eureka Street, 2022)
- Meet the Mining Billionaires Ransacking Australia (Jacobin, 2021)
- Who runs the mines in Papua? (The Monthly, 2021)
- Existential Therapy for the End of Civilisation (Overland, 2021)
- Frank Sinatra vs. Australia’s Trade Unions (Jacobin, 2021)
- Coronavirus: Australia warns against ivermectin use as imports of drug increase tenfold (South China Morning Post, 2021)
- Australia lures Asians to farm labour with new agriculture visa and path to permanent residency (South China Morning Post, 2021)
- Gerry Harvey Is an Emblem of Australia’s Corrupt Economic System (Jacobin, 2021)
- Australian Agricultural Bosses Can’t Find Workers. Maybe They Should Try Paying More (Jacobin, 2021)
- Australian Renters Are Organizing To Fight Evictions, Just Like They Did in the 1930s (Jacobin, 2020)
- Enemy of the State (The Monthly, 2020)
- The Eschatology of Climate Change (Overland, 2020)
- The Australian Right Is Trying To Import Trump-Style Reactionary Populism (Jacobin, 2020)
- After the Bushfires and Amid the Pandemic, Australia’s Fossil Fuel Industry Is Gaining Steam (Jacobin, 2020)
- Coronavirus Spreads Anti-Chinese Feeling in Southeast Asia, but the Prejudice Goes Back Centuries (South China Morning Post, 2020)
- Having Socialist Elected Officials Makes a Difference for Working-Class People (Jacobin, 2020)
- Instead of Choking on Smoke, Sydney Workers Are Walking off the Job (Jacobin, 2019)
- Bucks Night (Westerly, 2019)
- I Link, Therefore I Am (Overland, 2019)
- The spy who lied: undercover policing and intimate relationships in the UK (Overland, 2018)
- Indonesia’s battle against corruption on the big screen (The Jakarta Post, 2017)
- The act of acting (Overland, 2015)
- New Weird Indonesia (Cyclic Defrost, 2014)
- The Contested Modernisation of Jakarta (Arena, 2015)
- Animal testing (Arena, 2014)
Reviews
- Mercury Rising: The Hottest August Under The Sign Of Warming (The Quietus, 2019)
- Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising (Cyclic Defrost, 2019)
- Open Frame: Carriageworks – Sydney 28th of June 2018: Cat Hope/ Pan Daijing, Valerio Tricoli & Werner Dafeldecker/ Charlemagne Palestine (Cyclic Defrost, 2018)
- An elitist bloom of youth: Laurie Penny’s pharma-dystopia (The Jakarta Post, 2017)
- East Germany meets Salem in Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ (The Jakarta Post, 2017)
- First season of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ wraps up (The Jakarta Post, 2017)
- Sisters doing it for themselves: The story behind ‘Angka Jadi Suara’ (The Jakarta Post, 2017)
- ‘Raw’: a blood-soaked coming-of-age flick (The Jakarta Post, 2017)
- Chris Kraus’ feminist classic gets a TV revamp (The Jakarta Post, 2017)
- Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (The Jakarta Post, 2017)
- Blood and guts in the newsroom (The Jakarta Post, 2017)
- Ucok and music’s radical potential (The Jakarta Post, 2016)
- ‘Questioning Everything’ Politics Packaged In Pop (The Jakarta Post, 2016)
Interviews
- Australia Is a Subimperial Enforcer of the US-led Order (Clinton Fernandes interview. Jacobin, 2022)
- Australia Helped Indonesia Cover Up Atrocities in East Timor (Peter Job interview. Jacobin, 2022) – Indonesian language version: Invasi Indonesia ke Timor Leste: Australia Jadi ‘Buzzer’ Rezim Soeharto – IndoPROGRESS
- Utopian thinking in the ether: an interview with Boris Frankel (Overland, 2019)
- Ask The Experts: The Truth About Sci-Fi (Matters Journal, 2019) (Part Two here)
- Holly Herndon: Proto-typical AI Child Rearing (Cyclic Defrost, 2019)
- Lloyd Swanton (The Necks): “Throw yourself into that current and just let it carry you where it carries you.” (Cyclic Defrost, 2018)
- Synth-building culture in Indonesia: An Interview with Lintang Radittya (Cyclic Defrost, 2015)
- HTRK: “We’re in the afterlife as far as sound goes.” (Cyclic Defrost, 2015)
- Inside Indonesia’s death penalty debate (Inside Indonesia, 2015)
- Ora Iso: Negative Sounds From NY to Indonesia (Warning Magz, 2015)