For a period of about three years I had very little to do with teaching, compared to earlier years. While I did continue supervision higher…
Should the unemployed also be reimagining work?
After the article, The Work of Disobedience, was published a reader commented on the futility of the exercise for people who are unemployed. The basic…
Work and Meaning
On Master Chef Australia tonight (24 May 2017) a lawyer, an engineer and a doctor had to create a winning dessert to try and avoid elimination…
Western Australia’s welcome engagement in Asia has been a long time coming
republished from The Conversation, 22 March 2017 The newly elected Western Australia premier, Mark McGowan, has appointed the state’s first minister for Asian engagement, Bill…
Can You Hear the People Speak?
It’s been a long time between posts I know. What can I say except life gets busy? Still, I couldn’t let November slip by without…
Reviving a Dream of India
The paper that follows this is one I wrote a few years back and tried for months and months to have published by academic journals.…
Latter-Day Danger Asians
I have never written and published in fiction so this piece in Peril Magazine is a first for me. I am grateful to Peril for…
Learning to Play with Others
I’ve always liked playing with other people, perhaps it comes from growing up in a ragtag family of five siblings and neighbourhood play gangs in…
What they DONT’t tell you before you embark on a PhD
(originally published in Australia Asia Pacific Institute Review Jan-March 2016, p. 9) Well, if you thought that working on a PhD was about spending 3…
Malaysia disconnecting from online freedoms
(republished here under Creative Commons, originally published at the East Asian Forum) 18 March 2016 Not long ago, the Malaysian government thought that mastery of…