Writing

“A word after a word after a word is power.” — Margaret Atwood

Examples of my work

Before you make the decision to hire me, you deserve to know what you’ll be getting.

While I can’t share most speeches I write for clients, here is a small sample of what I have written for employers and under my own name.

Ministerial and Parliamentary Speeches (South Australia):

• Yarnell Wildfires Condolence motion (31-10-2013)

• Supply Bill speech (18-06-2013)

• Same-Sex Marriage Bill (25-07-2013)

Selected published essays and columns (under my name):

• Opinion pieces for the Lowy Institute

• Will Putin’s war force more medium-sized states to seek nuclear weapons? (Australian Strategic Policy Institute)

• Standing up to the CCP Isn't Worth Compromising Australia’s Democratic Values (Australian Institute of International Affairs)

• Complicity and remembrance (Overland journal)

• Low-density living is not the answer (InDaily)

Selected op-eds (not published under my name):

• Changing tastes and long lockdown the perfect storm for cocaine use (The Age)

• Fool’s errand to think drug busts will solve the problem (The Australian)

• Legal cannabis a good step, but drug war hangover remains (Canberra Times)

• Annual Overdose Report 2020 (Pain Australia)

• Australia’s Overdose Toll (VicDoc magazine)

Reports and other publications:

• International Overdose Awareness Day Partners’ Report, 2019-2021 (2020 Report here)

• Penington Institute Annual Review, 2019-2020 (2020 edition here)

• Australia’s Annual Overdose Report, 2019-2021 (responsible for writing CEO foreword and all media/communications collateral)

Academic writing:

• ¿Visca España? La Selección , National Metaphor and the 2010 World Cup (Chapter 5, p.86-110)