Ideas.

Everything on this site is linked by the ideas it shares. Choose a thread to see how an essay connects to a panel, an episode or a campaign.My work grouped by topic. Pick a topic to see everything about it.

Six threads. Each piece of work can sit in more than one.

Social cohesion.

16 pieces of work

Australia measures multiculturalism by who is present. The harder question is what happens between people once they are, and whether our institutions, broadcasters and politics still build anything shared.

Social enterprise.

9 pieces of work

Who actually gets paid to deliver social change, and why funding announced for enterprises so often ends up somewhere else.

Autistic pride.

13 pieces of work

The question has moved on from awareness. Autism is visible everywhere and the systems have barely changed. This thread is about what it would take to make them change, and who gets to design them.

Queer politics.

10 pieces of work

Pride has won visibility. This thread asks whether visibility has been mistaken for safety, and what happens to a movement when protest turns into institutions and certainty turns into culture.

Interculturalism.

7 pieces of work

Living alongside each other is not the same as living with each other. This thread is about what happens when cultures actually meet: language, names, stories, and what each community takes from the others.

Public life.

18 pieces of work

Shared attention, broadcasting, elections, artificial intelligence, and who gets to be understood by the institutions that govern us.