I’m a features editor, journalist, blogger and public speaker/interviewer and my specialty is spotting when the emperor isn’t wearing any clothes and why we’re letting him (her) get away with it. To be less polite, I am the enemy of bullshit and an admirer of all who call it out.
I have worked for Australian, British and American media companies, and have held senior editing roles at The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, Good Weekend, the UK Sunday Times and Time-Warner. I won a Walkley Award as founding editor of The Australian’s Review of Books.
My writing has appeared in Good Weekend, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, People magazine, the UK Sunday Times, marie-claire, Harper’s Bazaar and the Sunday Star-Times.
I’ve been a weekly columnist for The Australian and the Sun-Herald and once wrote a monthly blog for The Sydney Institute.
At one stage, my cat also wrote a column, first for Sunday Life magazine and then The Sunday Telegraph, before a killjoy decided paying a cat wasn’t on. (My cat is now writing her first book: Hero and the Catwalk.)
My 2006 book Triumph of the Airheads – and the Retreat from Commonsense turned out to be all too prescient.
I’m currently working on a non-fiction book (about ideas, creativity and the art of discernment) which, as usual, revolves around a mammoth idea and that is keeping me busy - and away from journalism - for now.
Fortunately it is satisfying an addiction - books.
