A sample of published talks and essays
'The Share Market' - on the 'sharing economy' (2014) »
Keynote address at the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators meeting in Singapore, July 2014 »
‘The Rising Tide of Narcissism’ (review of Anne Manne’s The Life of I), The Monthly, August 2014 »
Essay on privacy: ‘The End of Secrets’, published in The Monthly, June 2014 »
‘A Day in North Korea’, The Monthly, December-January 2013 »
‘Japan, China, Senkaku, Diaoyu: Why is Australia Taking Sides in the East China Sea?’ »
On Michelle Garnaut and her restaurants, The Monthly, October 2013 »
Launch speech for ‘Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture’ (National Portrait Gallery 2012) »
A tribute to the late Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang »
On Taipei’s Wistaria Teahouse »
Keynote address at the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators meeting in Singapore, July 2014 »
‘The Rising Tide of Narcissism’ (review of Anne Manne’s The Life of I), The Monthly, August 2014 »
Essay on privacy: ‘The End of Secrets’, published in The Monthly, June 2014 »
‘A Day in North Korea’, The Monthly, December-January 2013 »
‘Japan, China, Senkaku, Diaoyu: Why is Australia Taking Sides in the East China Sea?’ »
On Michelle Garnaut and her restaurants, The Monthly, October 2013 »
Launch speech for ‘Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture’ (National Portrait Gallery 2012) »
A tribute to the late Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang »
On Taipei’s Wistaria Teahouse »