Culture
- Are actors getting better (and ‘bett-ah’) at Australian accents? – The Guardian, 2025
- Dog x-rays, art history and a ‘never say never’ attitude: the surprising toolbox of professional conservators – The Guardian, 2025
- This firefighter survived the worst of black summer. His new exhibition hurls you right in – The Guardian, 2025
- Lines for pastries, phones, even paying respects have become famous. Why do humans queue? – The Guardian, 2024
- Why do we kiss? – The Guardian, 2024
- ‘I’ve never had so much work’: the young Aussies getting rich on TikTok – Good Weekend cover feature, 2021
- The Farewell explores the ethics of lying about a cancer diagnosis – New Scientist, 2019
- The Heights review – finally, a warm, complex and credible Australian soap opera – The Guardian, 2019
Books
- West Girls by Laura Elizabeth Woollett – sexism, schoolgirls and supermodels – The Guardian, 2023
- Australian medicine can be an awful place to work. And now doctors are writing about it – The Guardian, 2022
- How to read: a guide to getting more out of the experience – The Guardian, 2022
- As a science journalist I’m reconsidering having kids. I’m not the only one – The Guardian, 2022
- Weather by Jenny Offill: A powerful portrait of climate anxiety – New Scientist, 2020
- How a flawed mentality led to Silicon Valley’s meteoric rise: on Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley – New Scientist, 2020
- Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood – New Scientist, 2019
- Zadie Smith’s essays range from captivating to devastating – Good Weekend, 2018
- On Maxine Beneba Clark’s The Hate Race – The Guardian, 2016
Science/Tech
- Why can’t we remember our lives as babies or toddlers? – The Guardian, 2025
- ‘Not approved for human use’: the online frenzy for injectable peptides sweeping Australia – The Guardian, 2025
- ‘I was shocked’: Catholic-run public hospitals refuse to provide birth control and abortion – The Guardian, 2023
- How the sausage gets made: the serious business of fake meat – The Guardian, 2021
- ‘I’m living proof’: how Melbourne’s drug-injecting room has changed – and saved – lives – The Guardian, 2021
- How abusers are exploiting smart home devices – VICE, 2019
- Should you give your data to a period tracker or smart breast pump? – New Scientist, 2019
- When ethical hacking can’t compete – The Atlantic, 2015
Profiles
- Australia’s best children’s picture book: inside the idyllic studio of Alison Lester – The Guardian, 2026
- Pia Miranda: ‘Even after I shot Alibrandi I was working in a clothes store’ – The Guardian, 2023
- Patricia Piccinini’s changing nature – The Saturday Paper, 2018
- Li Cunxin brings ‘Swan Lake’ to Queensland – The Saturday Paper, 2017
Essays
- Where are you from? – Griffith Review, 2018
- Shanghai’s Long Museum – The Saturday Paper, 2018
- Sri Lanka’s Sigiriya – The Saturday Paper, 2017
- Literary Cities: Paris – Writers Bloc, 2016
More Guardian reporting here.
DONNA LU 