For nearly two decades I’ve been writing about what happens to people when the structures of work shift beneath them.
I have covered technology and social change, politics, leadership, workplace and the media industry itself. Through it all I have come back to questions of identity and how technology and work impact on how we see ourselves and others.
Here is a selection of stories from the hundreds I’ve written over the years tracing that arc.
4 factors that make you most susceptible to the white-collar ‘wipeout’
Australian Financial Review, March 2026
More than half the Australian workforce could be swept up in AI-driven disruption — and an education might be the thing that proves your undoing.
Is a degree even worth it any more?
Australian Financial Review, November 2025
Three quarters of Australians think a university degree is not worth it. We crunch the numbers.
Retired at 36, lost at 37: How to survive the professional identity crisis
Australian Financial Review, February 2026
What happens to who you are when your career ends — and how to find yourself again.
Job hunting enters its Tinder era
Australian Financial Review, August 2025
AI-powered hiring tools are transforming recruitment — and making it more dehumanising than ever.
What if we’ve had gender the wrong way around?
The Conversation, March 2019
Academic research asking whether closing the gender pay gap requires us to focus less on women’s workforce participation and more on men’s role at home.
In the age of self-promotion, what happens to journalism’s quiet achievers?
Walkley Magazine, December 2016
A decade before personal branding became mandatory, this piece asked what the rise of performance culture costs journalism — and who gets left behind.
Aldrin still dreams of the stars
Australian Financial Review, September 2010
An interview with Buzz Aldrin on identity, purpose and the disorientation of achieving the impossible. The conversation that planted the seed for everything that followed.