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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2020
ABC News
A longform interactive piece I wrote, photographed, and producer, looking at the fate of Australia's post-war architectural heritage.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2015
Vice
An interview with Melbourne-based artist, Benjamin Prabowo Sexton (né Lichtenstein) for Vice Australia.
2016
Vice
2015
Vice
An article for Vice Australia, looking into the cultural phenomenon of 'outing' queer individuals — particularly from those within the community.
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.
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.