Published writing

Another marvellous thing about having a blog is that I can collate all my published scribbles in the one place. That's good for me and useful for you if you'd like to dig around at some of my other stuff and maybe offer me a book deal or something...

Politics 

What Barnaby did is none of our business  The Age 12/02/17

We Need To Stop Asking 'What's In It For Me' And Start Asking 'What's In It For Us (Huff Post 10/05/16)

Bali nine: public horror as Chan and Sukumaran approach execution (SMH 10/03/15)

Why we want Malcolm Turnbull as PM (The Age 05/02/15) 

G20 - Thank God it's over (SMH 17/11/14) 

Jacqui Lambie's straight shooting a rarity in this political era (The Age 24/07/14)

Gen X cop it again with plans to increase retirement age (The Age 15/04/14)

Post offices are the lifeblood of rural Australia  (The Drum, ABC 08/01/14)

Climate change: The disastrous consequences of doing nothing (SMH 06/11/13)

What politicians don't understand: we prefer to see their true selves (The Guardian 12/07/13)

Bernie Brookes, forget taxes, you need staff (The Age 03/05/13)

Why is performance pay for teachers taboo? (The Punch 28/11/12)

Rinehart needs a chat with Warren Buffett (The Age 04/09/12)

How job cuts in the public sector work (The Age 15/08/12) 

Men die while a CEO unplugs an airline. Which gets more airtime? (The Drum 01/11/11)

Abbot and Gillard could learn from Pooh (The Age 11/08/10)

Xers give PM more bang for his buck (The Age 25/04/09)

Five reasons the Libs should push Malcolm Turnbull to the front (The Punch 14/08/10) 

Culture/life/love/death  

Six annoying things about modern living (The Age 30/12/14)

Phillip Hughes' death: Why are Australians so repressed about death? (SMH 09/12/14)

Anxiety and an app to track it (The Age 10/10/14) 

The Aussie Rules love affair (SMH 26/09/14) 

From billionaire brawlers to testy Treasurers, bring on the biffo (SMH 07/05/14)

Would you take a one-way trip to Mars? (The Age 13/03/14)

Stop filming with your smart phone and start living (The Age 07/02/14)

Fifty shades of lame and other First World problems (The Age, 28/01/14)

Books we read as kids make us who we are today (The Age 20/12/13)

LinkedIn a little too keen to make connections (The Age 26/11/13)

I want to shop where nobody knows my name  (The Age, 11/08/13) 

Opinion segment with Waleed Aly on RN Drive program, talking about why grammar matters (ABC Radio National Drive 30/10/12 podcast)

Uncool, but grammar should rule the schools  (Sydney Morning Herald 30/10/12)

Our one-track minds put albums out of fashion (The Age 09/11/11)

Myer, Myer on the wall, who's got the worst service of all? (The Drum 05/08/11) 

Ditch dreary details and embrace the Mad Men moment (The Age 11/01/11) 

Caravan holidays are back in vogue (The Age 31/12/10)

There's something about Kerry O'Brien (The Punch 09/12/10) 

We talk about life, why not death? (The Age 04/04/09)

Man starved girls go chaps fishing (The Australian 30/07/07)