Our moral duty

Apologies to all non-Australians reading this. Since we now have a date for the Voice referendum, let me tell you a story. It’s something I had, frankly, half-forgotten. When I worked in research, I once helped organise a conference for about 150 people. I was the admin/organisational contact for the…

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The bad guy

The other day, I realised something weird: my books don’t often have an antagonist. They rarely have an archetypical bad guy who does evil things all the time. My books will have bad situations. They will have bad situations made worse by incompetent or uncaring people. They will have groups…

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