The Case for The Commandant
The best Australian historical fiction you've never read. My first piece for The Conversation. .
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Australia's Future Submarine
I've been asked to give a talk on Australia's Future Submarine at the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts: 12:30pm on 29th September 2014 at the SMSA building on Pitt St. Update on 2014-09-27 03:02 by…
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Sub Standard - Australia's Future Submarine
My article for the August issue of The Monthly on the complex policy and urgent timing of the decisions on Australia's Future Submarines. Print edition in newsagents from August 1. HMAS Farncomb (not…
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Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Conference 2014
I'm looking forward to the tomorrow's Master Class as part of the ASAL 2014 Worlds Within Conference. I will be presenting my paper on Peter Carey's short story Do You Love Me? (titled Must Australia…
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Submarine Conference 2014
A photo from ASPI's submarine conference - I'm in the middle there between the UK Defence attache to the left and an executive from Northrop Grumman (hidden) on the right and some senior Americans I…
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Tom and me teaching the Master Class
at Sydney Mechanic School of Arts, photo taken by my lovely student Irina. This first course has finished but we will probably run another one in August/September.
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The Last Space Waltz?
My essay on the relationship between the fantasy of human space exploration - 2001 - and the reality - NASA - and whether humans will ever leave geostationary orbit again, is published in Overland,…
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Our Navy Blues: Cover of The Monthly April 2014
So proud to see this story as The Monthly's cover.
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Inspirational Conversations: Dreaming a Different Reality - 30 April
From the event description: 'Writer Claire Corbett is fascinated by the future, and explores themes of science and genetic modification in her remarkable novel When We Have Wings. In this…
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Hostile Takeover published by Spineless Wonders
My Carmel Bird Award longlisted story Hostile Takeover has just been published as an esingle by Spineless Wonders as part of the Amanda Lohrey Selects Series. Here's the blurb: 'Z works within…
