Writing over the years

Cemetery Bed traverses a dying river and grandmother through the voice of an entitled urban adolsecent.

Fire Breath: A short story written after Black Saturday bushfires in 2009, Fire Breath reflects Australians changing understanding of fire and its risks.

Imaginary Exile — shortlisted for the Calibre Prize 2012 and published in Life Writing (Taylor & Francis). Reading David Malouf's An Imaginary Life against a childhood at the edge of the world and a murder trial in a Broome courtroom, the essay asks what exile means when there is no longer any periphery left to be banished to.

Juris Materiarum: Empires of Earth, Soil and Dirt (Atropos Press, 2016) — a work of legal philosophy travelling from communities in war zones to European hamlets, arguing that law must move from individual and property rights to the legal recognition of relations, material and social. Written in the age of ecocide, where great violence is committed on an unprecedented scale and the law remains silent.

The climate crisis urges us to repair our broken constitution — published in Meanjin Winter 2025. Beginning with a rag-tag pocket Constitution that has survived thirteen house moves, the essay asks whether a founding document that denies both First Nations Country and its own ecological dependence can protect anyone from the disasters now arriving.