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‘On home.’ House & Garden, July 2017
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‘Sexual Misadventures.’ Meanjin, Issue #74, 2015.
‘The Nest.’ The Lifted Brow, Issue #25, 2015.
‘An Unsurveyed Land.’ CHART Collective, December, 2014.
‘Suiting Himself.’ The Saturday Paper, September, 2014
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‘Words & Music.’ Northerly, July-August, 2013
‘It’s hard to raise a teenage boy—and even harder to be one.’ The Guardian, July 2013
‘Botox silences women’s faces—and freezes out empathy in body language.’ The Guardian, May 2013
‘The Breaking Point.’ Meanjin, Issue #72, 2013
‘On The God of Small Things.’ Newswrite, #208, April-May 2013
‘Do we teach prejudice?’ Daily Life, January 2013
‘How much is a mother worth?’ Daily Life, January 2013
‘Why Is It (Still) the Mother’s Fault?’ Wheeler Centre News, December 2012
‘The Knoll.’ Meanjin, #71, 2012
‘The Letter.’ Island, #129, 2012
‘Man of Constant Solace.’ Big Issue, #402, 2012
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