Published Work

Feature Articles/Essays

• 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)