ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
The seat of our plants: An environmental lawyer turned activist is installing street furniture in inner-suburban Sydney that discreetly turns food waste into compost
The Monthly, November 2023
Friday essay: how women writers helped me find my voice after divorce
The Conversation, 20 October 2023
How do we remake ourselves after unravelling? Plunge into life and pay attention, suggests Deborah Levy’s mesmerising new work
The Conversation, 11 May 2023
Enraged, tragic and hopeful: Alexis Wright’s new novel Praiseworthy explores Aboriginal sovereignty in the shadow of the anthropocene
The Conversation, 4 April 2023
My favourite fictional character: the half-wild, ‘too much’ heroines - Philip Pullman’s Lyra and Elena Ferrante’s Lila
The Conversation, 23 January 2023
Gardening the silence: Writing family history with an olive tree
Wonderground 4, Family/Trees, November 2022
A dying earth and a lament for lost fathers: Sheila Heti strips back the novel and makes it new
The Conversation, 16 June 2022
My mother’s silence, my nation’s shame: Colonial violence in Australia and New Guinea
Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning, May 2022
‘Why did I need to know who my father was?’: one woman’s battle for her biological truth
The Guardian, 5 March 2022
What really counts? How the patriarchy of economics finally tore me apart, The Guardian, 1 August 2021
Erasure: Women, economics and language
Griffith Review 73, Spring 2021
My womb is not terra nullius
In Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion edited by Louise Swinn, Allen & Unwin, 2019
Valuing Country: let me count three ways
Griffith Review 63, Autumn 2019
A long essay exploring the connections between rights of nature law, First Nations’ thinking about Country and ecosystem accounting
Contested Land: Country and terra nullius in Plains of Promise and Benang
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Vol 3, No 18, 2019
Tracker review: Alexis Wright’s collective memoir of Bruce Tilmouth’s life
The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, January 2018
It's only natural: the push to give rivers, mountains and forests legal rights
The Guardian, April 2018
‘My job is to clean up the environment. China really wants to do that.’
The Guardian, September 2017
Properly Alive: Taboo by Kim Scott
Sydney Review of Books, August 2017
Country and Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book
Australasian Journal of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, 2016
Capitalism versus the agency of place: an ecocritical reading of That Deadman Dance and Carpentaria
Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Vol 13, No 2 (2013)
Going viral: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book
Sydney Review of Books, August 2013
2012: The year of Australian women writers
Overland, 4 December 2012
The REAL Australian classics - and why we should teach Oz lit courses in our universities
Overland, 21 September 2012
Honeybees and Betty Draper versus the GDP
Overland, 12 June 2012
My womb is not terra nullius (original version)
Overland, 11 July 2012
Changing the world, one grandmother at a time
Overland, 9 May 2012
When you crack open your Easter eggs, think of wombs
Overland, 10 April 2012
‘Love is a madness most discreet’: The Red and the Black, A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal
Overland, 23 February 2012
My first year as Overland fiction editor
Overland, 7 December 2011
The Stella, pub feminism and Greek goddesses
Overland, 6 September 2011
Extreme weather and Mother Earth: nature gets legal rights in Bolivia
Overland, 17 June 2011
I am woman hear me tweet in numbers too big to … ignore
Overland, 4 April 2011
Hope and anger: Raj Patel on free markets, commons and being an activist bum
Overland, 1 June 2010
Fiction and politics in the 21C: a reply to Emmett Stinson
Overland, 25 October 2010
Farewell Jessica Anderson (1916-2010) - and thanks
Overland, 15 July 2010
The love that dare not speak its name: we need to talk about editing
Overland, 28 April 2010
$200 hamburgers and The Value of Nothing
Overland, 16 February 2010