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  • On poetry and prison. 2017. Overland Literary Journal.

    A week interning in Central Australia in 2017 turned into a week loitering around the Mparntwe hearings into the NT Royal Commission into Youth Detention and Care.

    Reflections on the testimonies of young people, the people responsible for their care, and a system designed to fail.

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  • Confronting the national narrative. 2018. Overland Literary Journal.

    A comparative arts review of two coinciding releases in January 2018: painter Richard Lewer’s exhibition The History of Australia; and Warwick Thornton’s film Sweet Country.

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  • Coming back to cooking. 2020. Kill Yr Darlings.

    In lockdown, trying to make a spanakopita, after years of working in hospo complicated my relationship to cooking.

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