Alan Weedon

2023

ABC Radio National

An autobiographical article looking into the challenges faced by Filipina migrants upon their arrival in Australia in the late 20th-century, specifically, their caricaturing by the Australian media at the time. Commissioned by ABC Radio National online, published on the ABC News website.

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2022

ABC Science

An interactive article on the precarious future of Victoria's Mountain Ash Forests I co-authored with ABC Science's Belinda Smith. This article was selected to form part of the 2023 Best Australian Science Writing anthology, published by NewSouth Books.

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2022

ABC Radio National

An interactive article I wrote, photographed, and produced for ABC Radio National online. This profiles the work of Reef Design Lab — an industrial design studio invested in marine restoration projects — and the emerging field of eco-engineering.

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2021

ABC News

An article for ABC News on Thomas Sauvin's Beijing Silvermine — a vast found photography archive that charts the rise of China's dramatic turn to a consumer society.

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2020

ABC News

An article looking into the decline of Victoria's public housing stock, and the fate of public housing tenants amid an unprecedented housing renewal program, which will see some public housing estates sold to private developers.

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2020

ABC News

An article looking into the ways two housing towers — one public, one private — were treated radically differently by Victorian authorities during Melbourne's second lockdown.

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2020

ABC News

A longform interactive piece I wrote, photographed, and producer, looking at the fate of Australia's post-war architectural heritage.

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2019

ABC News

An article for ABC News on understanding the nuances of the Pacific's gender identities — distinct from how the West understands gender diversity.

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2018

Foreground

An article for Australian landscape architecture publication, Foreground, looking at the long arc of Melbourne's environmental history. Prior to colonisation, the land around the CBD was home to Billabongs, creeks and swamps. It’s this history that informed proposals for an inner urban development that straddles what was once a seasonal lagoon.

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2017

Foreground

An article for Australian landscape architecture publication, Foreground. This is an interview with Salvadorian-American landscape architect Mia Lehrer, on the contradictions of life in Los Angeles — and how design literacy can give the city's disenfranchised a stake in their local communities.

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2017

Foreground

An article for Australian landscape architecture publication, Foreground, dissecting the overwhelming community backlash to a skate park proposal in one of Sydney's most affluent neighbourhoods.

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2016

Men In This Town

'Breaking Lab' is a written and photographic profile I penned for the magazine, Men In This Town, profiling the work of Hillvale, an independent film processing lab in Brunswick, Australia.

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2016

The Quietus

An essay I penned for British music publication The Quietus, looking at the queer undercurrents that seep through popular imaginings of traditional Australian masculinity.

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2015

The Quietus

Australia is an inherently camp nation, and our abiding love for Eurovision is one way to understand that. I explored this for a British audience in The Quietus.

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2015

Vice

An interview with Melbourne-based artist, Benjamin Prabowo Sexton (né Lichtenstein) for Vice Australia.

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2016

Vice

A profile for Vice Australia on the country's "most notorious piss fetishist", Troughman.

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2015

Vice

An article for Vice Australia, looking into the cultural phenomenon of 'outing' queer individuals — particularly from those within the community.

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2015

Broadsheet

An article for Broadsheet Melbourne, detailing why the City of Melbourne's assigned every single one of the municipality's trees a unique email — with guaranteed responses back.

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2018 — 21

ABC News

An archive of my journalism for the ABC's Asia Pacific Newsroom. A foreign affairs newsroom with a focus on Australia's immediate region.

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