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“Don’t give up if people are attacking you”

“Don’t give up if people are attacking you”

During the recent Ubud Writer’s Festival in Bali, Indonesia, where I was a guest speaker, I was asked by the literary magazine, Kill Your Darlings, about what I wished I knew about being a writer back in the day: I’ve been a journalist for over twenty years, and if you write about political issues, works…

The AI “revolution” is piracy for authors

The AI “revolution” is piracy for authors

I recently discovered that some of my books are being used illegally to “train” AI models: This story in Books + Publishing explains what’s at stake: The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has responded to the large-scale unauthorised use of books by Australian authors in a dataset used to train generative artificial intelligence. The training…

On not ignoring the struggles of Africa

On not ignoring the struggles of Africa

My essay/book review in the US outlet The Markaz Review is on a new book by the great writer, Anjan Sundaram, Break-Up: A Reporter’s Marriage Amid a Central African War: The Central African Republic (CAR) is mostly ignored in the mainstream media, but in sparse depictions it’s often portrayed as a faraway nation bedeviled by…

Discussing Lachlan Murdoch with Paddy Manning

Discussing Lachlan Murdoch with Paddy Manning

Journalist Paddy Manning has written a fascinating book on Lachlan Murdoch, the heir apparent of the global media empire, called The Successor. I interviewed him about the book and his methods behind it at this year’s Newcastle Writer’s Festival:  

Discussing the Afghan war with Andrew Quilty

Discussing the Afghan war with Andrew Quilty

Photojournalist Andrew Quilty spent years reporting in Afghanistan and published a book about his experiences, August in Kabul. I reviewed it for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age in August 2022. My interview with Quilty, conduced at the Newcastle Writer’s Festival late March 2023, covers the war itself, the return of the Taliban and…

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