A small sample of my writing for various publications:

• Everything you need to know about Labor’s first budget in 6 charts
  Reporting from the Budget lock-up (my 8th at The Conversation), breaking down the facts and figures of Labor’s first Budget. (And from a few months earlier, the final Coalition Budget after almost a decade in power).

• The Strait of Hormuz is the most important oil choke point in the world. Use our interactive map to explore it
  An interactive explainer I wrote and coded on a quick turnaround during the 2019 Strait of Hormuz crisis to explain the geography, escalating events and importance of the strait to international commerce.

• The 2021 Australian census in 8 charts
  Leading The Conversation’s analysis of the first batch of data from the 2021 Australian census, breaking down key findings and figures.

• Comic explainer: forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)
  A (very) long, single panel comic (in the form of a tree) with David Lindenmayer exploring why hollow-bearing trees are important for ecosystems and wildlife, and why they are becoming rarer and rare in Australian forests. This was reprinted in many libraries and schools after publication (by request).

• Comic explainer: what is lone-actor terrorism?
  A comic exploring what we know about lone-actor terrorism with Raffaello Pantucci, the facts, history and origins of lone-actor terrorism and a solutions-based approach to dealing with it. This comic has been used in courses in police anti-terror education in the US.

• Comic explainer: what is memory?
  The first in the comic explainer series, working with memory neuroscience researcher Jee Hyun Kim on how memory works, why some people can remember things on a granular level of detail and how we can better memorise (or forget!) things.

• Drink, drank, drunk: what happens when we drink alcohol in four short videos
  A series of short-videos I co-wrote, edited, storyboarded, drew and animated in collaboration with a team of researchers and my colleague Emil Jeyaratnam. This series has been picked up by the Hong Kong Health Department, several other publications globally and used in Swiss hospitals to educate teens admitted with alcohol poisoning.

• What It’s Like To Be A Political Cartoonist For The Chinese State
  An interview in comic form about the day-to-day life of Luo Jie, cartoonist and deputy chief of the art section of the China Daily – a state run news organisation that promotes the CCP agenda and grievances around the world.

• An Exclusive And Very Real Copy of the New "Australian Values" Citizenship Test
  A satirical article on the changes to the Australian citizenship test unveiled by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

• NASA’s Water-On-Mars Announcement Was Predicted By Twitter’s Favourite Cosmonaut: Evghenia, The First Woman On Mars
  An article that wonders if Twitter's favourite feminist Cosmonaut, Evghenia is on Mars, actually knew about NASA's water announcement before anyone else.

• How I get to choose what you watch on television
  An article on the reality of being a Nielsen television ratings home and a potted history of ratings measurements.

• From anxiety to Asperger’s, how the DSM is redefining disorders
  An explainer on changes to the mental health diagnostic "bible"  - the DSM-5 - and what it could mean for legislation and treatment for people with various mental health disorders.

• Fairness of political reporting a toss-up, as Press Gallery numbers wane and news cycle quickens, survey finds
  The result of a survey done in collaboration with veteran journalist (and current Fairfax columnist) Gay Alcorn of the Canberra Press Gallery, examining the views of the press gallery on the fairness of reporting during the Gillard government, the nature of reporting in the 24/7 news cycle and the expectations of readers.

• Doncaster rail service remains line ball
  A multimedia article exploring the 130-year history of the proposed Doncaster Rail line in the context of the release of the second stage of the current Doncaster Rail Study.
  This article was Highly Commended in the Best Use of Convergent Media category at the 2013 Ossie Awards.