24 January 2023
A Literary Life
A profile of legendary Brisbane writer David Malouf AO, for the Summer 2023 edition of Grammar News.
11 May 2022
One for all
An article for German football culture magazine 11FREUNDE on Josh Cavallo, the world’s first openly gay male professional soccer player.
28 February 2022
The Little Jolts
An essay for Sydney Review of Books on Brendan Cowell’s novel Plum, concussion, and a renaissance of rugby league literature.
16 December 2021
“I’ve made it clear where I stand on Qatar”: How Jackson Irvine found his voice
An interview with Socceroo midfielder Jackson Irvine on concerns around the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
1 July 2021
Looking for Johnny Burnaway
An essay for Griffith Review on punk, pain and a family puzzle.
20 February 2021
Rugby league All Stars align
For many Indigenous rugby league players, the experience of representing their culture in the All Stars team fosters better knowledge and appreciation of their heritage and reinforces the NRL’s position as Australia’s first majority non-white sport.
22 August 2020
Craig Foster, agent of change
Once best known as SBS’s face of soccer, Craig Foster has parlayed his multicultural education from the game into passionate work for human rights and social justice, becoming a genuine ‘change agent’ not just for sport but for society.
31 August 2019
Humble start for our club
A story for the Townsville Bulletin on the beginnings of the North Queensland Cowboys. This is an edited extract from Heartland: How Rugby League Explains Queensland.
1 July 2018
AIS to Champions League: Ergić and Miličević's parallel careers
An article for SBS on the friendship between former Serbian international, Ivan Ergić, and former Australian international Ljubo Miličević.
7 November 2017
ABC Conversations
The story of Australian soccer, from ethnic clubs to the A-League, with Sarah Kanowski.
19 July 2017
'It's the feeling of Origin': clamour for women's State of Origin intensifies
Inter-state rivalry is just as fierce as in the men’s game but a women’s Origin has never been played, for reasons to do with funding and development.
27 February 2017
Redcliffe Dolphins: 70 years growing and with ambitious plans for future in NRL
The cash-rich Queenslanders want to stake an NRL claim, not as a feeder club, or as a partner in a new Brisbane franchise, but as a team in their own right.
4 March 2016
Jason Mifsud and Fitzroy Stars: a man on a mission at a club that means so much
A feature article for Guardian Australia on a unique Indigenous-run footy club and its inspirational, politically-minded coach.
20 February 2016
Vaarwel the Dutch houses of Coopers Plains
A magazine feature for The Courier-Mail on the disappearing Dutch houses of Coopers Plains, Brisbane.
7 October 2015
The Redfern All Blacks at the Koori Knockout – brutal rugby league that brings a community together
The annual tournament in NSW stands for family, loyalty and an immense mutual respect between the young ones, celebrity players and elders.
15 June 2015
‘He came to see blackfellas!’ When Muhammad Ali visited Fitzroy
His visit was barely documented or recorded but for those who met the boxer during his trip to Fitzroy the memories endure.
10 April 2015
Perth Glory nearly got away with A-League salary cap breach
The final article in a four-month investigation with Dominic Bossi into Perth Glory breaching the A-League salary cap. This investigation led to Glory being deducted points and fined $269,000, and raised questions about the league’s auditing processes. It was a finalist in the 2015 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
30 May 2014
How soccer has survived in Australia
A review of Roy Hay and Bill Murray’s book, A History of Football in Australia: A Game of Two Halves, for the Sydney Morning Herald.