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I have worked inside rooms where decisions about escalating international crises are made. This piece examines Australia’s response to the US’ strike on Iran, the legal threshold for anticipatory self-defence, and the tension between alliance loyalty and legal scrutiny.

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This week I was featured in “This Will Get Loud”, a series by Sara Zuboff profiling people who have chosen to use their voice, even when it would have been easier not to.

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Four years after the Set the Standard report, the Australian Parliament still has questions to answer about workplace culture and safety.

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The debate about AUKUS usually centres on cost, timing and industrial capacity. My piece in The Saturday Paper examines a different dimension - the strategic cost of silence in a shifting global order.

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Why do principled people step away from political life? This article takes a clear-eyed look at how political systems shape behaviour and why many issue-driven, values-led people eventually choose to leave. It examines what it costs all of us when that happens and why we need better politics.

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Across February 2026, I will be publishing a Substack series on Power. It draws on lived experience - not to settle scores or to demystify individuals, but to describe patterns: how influence actually moves; how silence, signal, alliance and ambition shape outcomes; and how ethical action can still produce change when formal power resists it. The essays are an attempt to build literacy for those who engage from within the system, those who challenge it from outside, and those who want to understand why change so often feels harder than it should be - and who remain determined to seek better.

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We are living through a period of global strategic change and volatility. It is becoming increasingly visible in patterns of institutional behaviour, with international norms, laws and alliances being tested in real time and coming under strain. This piece calls for intellectual honesty, brave discussion, and agency.

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Recent global events have triggered renewed interest in how the use of military force is authorised in democratic systems. Much of that attention is centred on the United States. But it also prompts questions closer to home about how well Australia’s own arrangements are understood.

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This article explores how comfort shows up in our work, health, relationships and leadership. And why New Year reflection is less about doing more and more about recognising what we’ve been quietly tolerating.

Full article available via Women’s Agenda and on my Substack.

Australia’s response to the Bondi attacks has remined us of who we are at our best. The task now is whether our government is prepared to meet that standard too.