Books
- As a science journalist I’m reconsidering having kids. I’m not the only one – The Guardian, 2022
- Escapism and old favourites: silver linings for the book industry as Australian sales surge – The Guardian, 2020
- 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
Culture
- Everything is cake: how increasingly elaborate decorative baking became an online obsession – The Guardian, 2021
- ‘I’ve never had so much work’: the young Aussies getting rich on TikTok – Good Weekend cover feature, 2021
- A Good Place: The podcast that interviews inanimate objects – The Outline, 2018
- Patricia Piccinini’s changing nature – The Saturday Paper, 2018
Film/TV
- Can an Asian diaspora Facebook group be good TV? – The Guardian, 2021
- Dick Johnson Is Dead: A moving tragicomic film about dementia – New Scientist, 2020
- 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
- The Cry isn’t just the newest crime drama, it’s an addictive nightmare – Junkee, 2019
Science/Tech
- How the sausage gets made: the serious business of fake meat – The Guardian, 2021
- ‘Health systems should be prepared’: doctors brace for tsunami of long covid – 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
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
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