Fishing
This article was published in Eureka Street on 29 October 2009: Time to start worrying about fish As Peter Singer and Jim Mason noted in their 2006 book The Ethics of What We Eat, even conscientious...
View ArticleReality and politics
This piece was published in The New Critic in March 2010 (references in original). I think I expressed myself fairly clumsily and pretentiously here, and would like to write about the desire for...
View ArticlePolitics in black and green
This article was published in New Matilda on 11 February 2011: Was there ever a green-black alliance? Native title is again in the news in Western Australia. The wrangling over Woodside’s proposed...
View ArticleNative title reporting and the Burrup
This article was published in New Matilda on 1 March 2011: The Monthly’s blindspot on the Burrup In a recent article in The Monthly, “Into The Beehive” writer Robyn Davidson documents her visit to the...
View ArticleReview: Judith’s Brett’s Quarterly Essay ‘Fair Share’
This piece was pulished in New Matilda on 14 June 2011: How to take regional Australia seriously Tensions between city and country Australia generally fester quietly, but occasionally come to a head:...
View ArticleThe case of Coca-Cola and the Northern Territory container deposit scheme
This ‘Explainer’ piece appeared in Crikey on 6 March 2013. What does Coke have to do with NT recycling? The Federal Court this week ruled in favour of beverage giants, striking out the Northern...
View ArticleFarewell to Ferguson
This piece appeared in New Matilda on 3 June 2013 (links in original): Martin Ferguson’s Black and White World Last week, in news that elicited tears from Tony Abbott, a hearty good riddance from the...
View ArticleYours, Mine or Ours?
This piece appeared at Overland on 5 July 2013 (links in original): Kevin Rudd’s return has prompted questions about policy changes, including in the area generally seen as his downfall: the mining...
View ArticleMining in imagined communities
This piece appeared in The Guardian on 16 July 2013 (links in original): Last night, Q&A came to Perth. Somewhat predictably, discussion mostly consisted of taxes, sovereign risk and boats, leaving...
View ArticleNorthern visions of special economic zones
This piece appeared in The Guardian on 23 August 2013 (links in original): The bush does something funny to people. First there is the peculiar idea that things are somehow realer or more “authentic”...
View ArticleBehind the James Price Point decision
This piece appeared in Crikey on 23 August 2013 (links in original): The proposed gas hub at James Price Point is not having an easy ride. In April, Woodside Petroleum shelved the project (the company...
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