Greatest Hits
A selection of my best features, interviews, news pieces, op-eds, and more.
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VICE
How I Felt After Binge-Drinking 'Hangover-Free' Alcohol
We Asked Experts How Risky It Is to Self-Medicate With Mushrooms
What We Know (and Don’t) About Magic Mushroom Paralysis
Meet the Man Who Brought DMT to the Masses
Inside One of Australia’s Biggest Legal Weed Farms
Rolling Stone
Aussie Artists Return to The Global Stage With a Bang at Glastonbury 2022
Cognitive Frontiers: 250 Years After Cook’s Arrival, Are We Ready to Talk?
Spacey Jane’s Caleb Harper: The Rolling Stone Interview
Music on the Brain: Why Live Music Is Good for Your Brain, Mental Health, and the Economy
An Epidemic of Stigma: The Complex of Addiction and Recovery from Ice in Australia
Rock Bottom Ain't Rock Bottom: One Man's Journey from Ice Use to Recovery
“A Foot in The Door”: Rag’n’Bone Man on ‘Human’, Lockdown, and His New Album
The Canna-Boom: Medicinal Cannabis Is Big Business in Australia But Not Everyone Is Happy
Growing Pains: What’s Next for Cannabis in Australia?
SBS
Lockout Laws Are Lifting But the Damage Has Already Been Done
Crikey
‘It’s As Terrifying’: Talking to a Blitz Survivor About Coronavirus
The Pennington Institute
Take-Home Naloxone: The Revival Roadshow Dodging Potholes Aplenty
Pandemic Watch: The Experience of Needle Exchange Programmes As Essential Services
Pedestrian
In Conversation With Two Indigenous Activists on the Deeper Issues of January 26th
The Latch
Profiles / Interviews
Charlie Brooker’s Ideas About the Future of AI Sound Like a ‘Black Mirror’ Episode
“It’s Closer Than You Think”: Meet the Man Bringing Animals Back from Extinction
Reframing the Date: Jack Latimore on Our Nation’s Annual Argument
Why the Legalise Cannabis Victoria Party Feel the Need for Weed
Voices from The Bush: What Rural People Actually Think About Climate Action
Our Drug Driving Laws Bar Medicinal Cannabis Users from the Road — This MP Is Trying to Change That
Queenie Tan's Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Saving and Investing
Want to Understand Politics But Don’t Know Where to Start? Left Right Out Has You Covered
How to Talk to Your Kids About Survival Day
Surfing Legend Belinda Baggs on the Fight to Protect Our Coastlines
Chanel Contos Wants to Eliminate Rape Culture in Australia — Here’s How She Plans to Do It
Ruby Jones on Her New Podcast Exploring Why Australia’s #MeToo Movement Failed
Snake Eyes: Comic Legend Larry Hama on the Importance of Asian Representation in Film
How to Talk to Your Child About Coming Out, According to Drag Sensation Reuben Kaye
Meet the UK DJ Bringing Music to Lockdown Britain on a Bike
With Vaccine Hesitancy on the Rise, We Speak to One Person Who Won’t Get the Jab
Night Stalker Detective Gil Carrillo on Life After Capturing Richard Ramirez
Who Are the 8 Men Who Have All the Money: Hennessey The Band Explain
The Trial of Deborah Lynch: Medical Cannabis User and Potential MP
Soy Long, Farewell: Australia’s Vegan and Vegetarian Options Are Vanishing
AI Images Will Be Included in Australia’s Largest Photography Festival This Year
What a Voice to Parliament Could Do For the Country — and What We’ll Lose If We Vote No
The 30-Year Success Story of Norway’s Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Homophobic Slurs Are Still Legal — Australia’s Protection Laws Need Tightening
Asian Grocery Stores and Death Caps: The Entangled History of Racism and Mushrooms
Video May Have Killed the Radio Star, But Will AI Kill the DJ?
“Quite Unsuitable for Females”: How Women’s Football Became the Biggest Game in the Country
Drag Sensation Reuben Kaye Forced to Reschedule Sydney Gig Over Protest Security Fears
How to Forage for Mushrooms in Australia Without Dying
Pokies Have Become a Crutch for Venues in NSW, But This Chain Succeeded Without Them
The Backlash Against International Women’s Day
Where We Need to Go: The Future of LGBTQIA+ Rights in Australia
George Pell Funeral: LGBT Protestors Clash With Mourners Outside St Mary’s Cathedral
No Right to Protest: The New Laws Being Used to Lock Up Climate Activists
The Battle of the Great Barrier Reef — Meet the People Trying to Save an Australian Icon
We Went to the Great Barrier Reef to Assess the Damage — Here’s What We Found
Football’s Coming Out: How the FIFA World Cup Could Impact LGBTQI+ Rights in Qatar
Local Heroes Get Stuck in to Help During NSW and VIC Floods
Australia Doesn’t Recognise West Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital — Here’s Why It’s Important
Gen Z Are at the Forefront of a Revolution in Iran
All Online Content Could Soon Be Regulated Using 25-Year-Old Classifications
Birds Aren’t Real: Explaining the Bizarre Meme That Flies a Little Too Close to Home
Clownfall: UK Prime Minister Resigns After Being Absolutely Shredded By His Own Party
‘Burning’s Daisy Jeffery: How Climate Action Became the Personal Mission of One Young Girl
As COP26 Finishes, What Happens Next for the Future of Climate Action?
Everything You Need to Know That Happened at COP26
Two NSW Teachers on What It’s Really Like on the Front Line and Why They Support The Strikes
What It’s Like on the Front Line of Climate Change Right Now
What Is Carbon Capture? Australia’s Predictable Response to the IPCC Climate Change
Not All Skateboarders Are Happy About Their Sport Being Included in the Olympics
A Step-by-Step Account of What It’s Really Like Getting the COVID Vaccine In Australia
Finding Food In the Forest: How a Pandemic Sparked New Interest In Mushrooms
Op-Eds
Aliens Might Exist, But I Still Have to Pay Rent
Anti-Semitism Is a Real Issue, Supporting Palestine Is Not Part of It
After 13 Years I Returned Home to Australia — It’s Nothing Like I Remembered
A Casual’s Guide to The Agony and Ecstasy of English Football and What Monday’s Final Could Mean
Apparently, Some People Smoke Weed: Grace Tame and the Normalisation of Cannabis
Money Grows on Trees: Into the World of Super Rare Houseplants
Music / Art / Culture
A Play By One of the World’s Most Famous Ghost Hunters Is Set to Creep Out Melbourne
Time to Get Fired Up About Consent Again: ‘Asking for It’ Is an Unmissable New Doco Series
‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Author Delia Owens on the Run After Murder Case
Why We Need Glastonbury Music Festival Now More Than Ever
Adele Is Right, Spotify Has Changed Our Relationship to Music
Stephen Maxwell Johnson’s ‘High Ground’ Is a Powerful Truth About Our Indigenous Past
‘The Dark Knight’ and The War on Terror: How Batman Got Us Into This Mess
A New SBS Documentary Is Calling Time on the Moral Panic About Obesity
The World’s Most Expensive Record Ever Sold is One We May Never Hear — Here’s Why
Signs You’ve Had a Supernatural Encounter, According to an Expert
Feeling Overwhelmed by Climate Change? You Need to Read This Book
Check Out This Incredible Mushroom Art Exploring Violence Against Women
Drugs
Here’s What Happens When You Take Australia’s Newly Legal Psychedelic Therapy
The Government Is Allowing MDMA and Psilocybin to Be Prescribed for Mental Health
Australia’s Cannabis Laws Explained In Terms You Could Understand In… Any State of Mind
“Controlling, Punitive, and Coercive”: People Who Vape React to the Government Ban
How to Buy Medicinal Cannabis in Australia
Why Is Spinach Making People Trip?
How Australia’s First Government Pill Testing Service Actually Works
New Doco ‘The Psychedelic Drug Trial’ Details Exactly What the Treatment is Like
The Great De-Vape: What Happens Now
The Great De-Vape: Just How Dangerous Is Vaping Anyway?
The Great De-Vape: Why Vaping Will Be Banned From This Friday
Will The ACT Really Decriminalise All Drugs? We Ask the Experts
Government Blocks the Use of Mushrooms and MDMA for Mental Health Treatment
MDMA Just Passed a Big Hurdle on Its Way to Becoming Medicine That Could Cure PTSD
New Research Paints A Psychedelic Vision for Saving the World and Ourselves
Self-Experimentation
But Does It Work? We Tried Myrkl’s Hangover Prevention Pill
I Took Yootropics ‘Brain’ Supplement for a Month — Here’s What Happened
I Quit Coffee — Here’s What It Was Like and How I Did It
How to Survive Your First Dry January from Someone Who’s Done It
I Road Tested Bae Juice, The Korean Pear Hangover Prevention Drink
Why Everyone You Know Is Buying a Van and Chasing That #VanLife