Political and Cultural Essays

Weaponising words: How propaganda shapes Gaza narratives’, in Independent Australia, 17 October 2025
The real tragedy will be if Labor retreats to its short-sighted, racist past’, in New Matilda, 21 May 2019
The ethics of uncertainty’, in Medium, 4 November 2017
Codes of control: brand managing our humanity’, in Overland, 3 November 2016
Don’t Elect Dangerous Derryn Hinch: The Case For Treating Criminals Humanely’, in New Matilda, 22 June 2016
Refugees Are Not Your Trolley Problem’, in New Matilda, 16 May 2016
The right to see: the ongoing struggle against film censorship in Australia’, on the Melbourne International Film Festival website, 13 August 2015
Looking at porn doesn’t have to be a dirty secret, in The National Times, 28 June 2010
Tradition no bulwark against internet creep, in The National Times, 29 April 2010
Rating games a delicate balance, in The National Times, 5 January 2010