Articles

ABC Unleashed
Too much, too young, 30 November 2009

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I’m Not a Hipster Because I Don’t Like Ugly Clothes (Issue 1)

The Age
Sex and empowerment can go hand in hand, 19 August 2005
Adult Themes, Review, 24 November 2006
In MySpace, everyone can see you preen, 12 August 2007
Video wars rock the vote, 21 October 2007
Psephological blogger rhythms, 28 October 2007
A sticky web it is for the unwary, 4 November 2007
Is politics My(our) Space again?, 11 November 2007
Girl Stuff (review), 17 November 2007
Citizen journos turning inwards, 18 November 2007
Net campaigns peaked behind the party scripts, 25 November 2007
One size doesn’t fit all, 20 January 2008
The Great Feminist Denial (review), 13 October 2008
Prattle of the sexes, 8 February 2009
Birth of baby too often kills parental career, 7 September 2010
What Men Want In Bed (review), 9 October 2010

Alternet
“Kids today, they don’t know how slutty they are!”, 17 March 2011

Australian Literary Review
Untangling sexiness, sex and childhood, July 2008

The Big Issue
Learning the Hard Way, Issue 273, 26 Feb-13 March 2007
Values for Money, Issue 278, 7-22 May 2007

The Bulletin
Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, Review, 17 July 2007
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters, Review, 5 September 2007
State of Emergency, 23 October 2007

The Canberra Times
Latham’s valid points on the future of family and community, 23 September 2005

CLEO
Vagina Vanity, December 2008
Beauty By Numbers, January 2009
Defeat the fear that keeps you single, February 2009
Why We’re Not That Into HJNTIY (He’s Just Not That Into You), April 2009
Code of Silence, June 2009
Sex Without Condoms: The New Engagement Ring?, August 2009
“i’mma let you finish…”: the Kanye West Syndrome, December 2009
The perils of prettiness, January 2010
So you think you can’t get an STI?, March 2010
Why it pays to be picky, April 2010
More t#an w*rds, October 2010
A date with Kate Moss, January 2011
The New Sexual Double-Standard, March 2011
Six steps to relationship bliss, April 2011

Cosmopolitan
How to attract the good things in life, December 2010
Love and Gay Marriage… Are We Ready For A Change?, February 2011
The Rise of the Guy-on-Guy Kiss, March 2011
Say no to fat talk, April 2011
Why are we still being hurt by bullying?, April 2011
The Charmer Rapist, May 2011
You’ve got the job, so why do you feel like a fake at work?, May 2011
The virtual confessional: when to shut up online, June 2011
Would you march in a Slutwalk?, July 2011
Does Chris Brown really deserve another chance?, August 2011
Why “it’s complicated” can be good for love, August 2011
Secret men’s social networking clubs, September 2011
The rise of online hate and how to shut it down, October 2011
Why is 27 your life defining number?, October 2011
Women of influence: who’s inspiring us now?, November 2011
“I blew $30,000 on cocaine”, January 2012

The Courier-Mail
Politics turns to web, 5 October 2007

Girlfriend
5 people who care if you have sex (and why it’s none of their business), October 2006
So, you think being popular would…, October 2006
Real boys vs TV boys, December 2006
Dr Sweetie and Mr Snide, February 2007
Do you have Cinderella Syndrome?, February 2007
Do you have what it takes to date a celebrity?, February 2007
Make Poverty History, April 2007
6 reasons NOT to go out with him, June 2007
Attack of the Pussycat Clones, July 2007
Upgrade U, August 2007
The Body Snatchers, November 2007
Could you be Australia’s first female Prime Minister?, February 2008
Drug Wars, March 2008
Are You A Secret Mean Girl?, September 2008
Circle of Friends, September 2008
Pledge This!, October 2008

Girls’ Life
Are you playing up your positive princess power?, April/May 2007

Glamourmagazine.co.uk
They’ll be there for you: how to make new friends, 30 July 2010
If you’ve ever wanted to…, 20 September 2010

Huffington Post
Hillary Clinton and US Weekly Politics, 13 June 2007
The Reality TV Insta-Success Lie, 6 August 2007

Jezebel
Study: Not All Footballers Are Misogynistic, Homophobic Asshats, 13 October 2010

Lip
Feminism and men’s underwear, Issue 10
Why being pretty doesn’t make you special, Issue 11
I don’t want to be a stupid girl, Issue 12

The Monthly
Bobby, April 2007
Skins, March 2008

NewMatilda.com
Blame it on MySpace, 2 May 2007
Everyone Hates Hillary, 20 June 2007
This Election, Women Want Women, 16 July 2007
If I Were an American, 18 January 2008
As Australian As the Library Queue, 25 January 2008
Are They REALLY Doing It?, 29 September 2009
We Need To Talk About Dennis, 2 November 2009

OnlineOpinion.com.au
Just not that into ‘He’s Just Not That into You’, 14 January 2005
What’s the big deal about Generation Y?, 21 December 2005
Creating our own history, 27 July 2006

Russh
The Colour Blonde, May/June 2006
All Hail the Editrix, November/December 2006
The Tanning Wars, January/February 2007
The ‘V’ word, March/April 2007
Skeletons in the closet, May/June 2007
The Power of Beauty, March/April 2008

TheScene.com.au
Paablo Nevada: MAFW Spring/Summer 2006, Review
Lover: MAFW Spring/Summer 2006, Review
Tsubi: MAFW Sping/Summer 2006, Review

The Sex Mook: What is our sex? (2007)
Are We Getting Any?

The Spectator
Meet the man behind the anti-carbon tax lobby, 17 September 2011 (cover story)

Sunday Life (Sun-Herald and Sunday Age magazine supplement)
Plastic Fantastic, 13 July 2008
Single Figures, 10 October 2010 (cover story)
Balance of Power, 24 October 2010 (cover story)
Paid to Play, 5 December 2010
Friends and Enemies, 16 January 2011 (cover story)
True Romance, 13 February 2011 (cover story)
Happy Lendings, 6 March 2011
Great Cities: London, 13 March 2011
Continental Drift, 27 March 2011 (cover story)
Tina Fey: Funny Girl, 24 April 2011 (cover story)
Ladies In Waiting, 12 June 2011 (cover story)
Masters and apprentices, 19 June 2011 (cover story)
When do we start to feel old?, 17 July 2011
The class ceiling, 24 July 2011
Thoroughly Modern Moran, 7 August 2011 (cover story)
Distant memories: living with dementia, 18 September 2011
Taking sides, 2 October 2011 (cover story)
The hook-up myth, 2 October 2011
The erotic economy, 16 October 2011
Having it all: the rise and rise of the superwoman, 30 October 2011 (cover story)
The missing maternal link, 6 November 2011 (cover story)
Who’s afraid of Melinda Tankard Reist?, 8 January 2011 (cover story)

Sunday Magazine (Sunday Telegraph and Herald Sun magazine supplement)
Have you noticed… everybody wants to be your best friend, October 2006

Sydney Morning Herald
Lining up for their fifteen minutes, 21 January 2005
It’s possible to do everything, but it’s easier to do nothing, 3 February 2005
The yoofs are so over talking about themselves, 8 April 2005
Cool to be forty-odd, as long as you don’t look it, 15 May 2005
No time to learn for learning’s sake when a degree is at stake, 2 June 2005
Today’s virtual jugglers will be tomorrow’s high achievers, 21 August 2005 
It’s a right royal pain as reality television plays with dreams of enchantment
Raunch is too hot to be true, 20 February 2006 
Obsession with the exceptional buries everyone in hype, 20 June 2006
Patriotism: first refuge of Australian storytellers, 19 July 2006
The Student Chronicles, Review, 16 September 2006
Access all areas, 6 October 2006
Hot Swotos, 17 January 2007
There go the internet’s shooting stars, 3 February 2007
It pays to talk, 7 February 2007
How politicians can get caught out by the net, 2 March 2007
Girl stuff (review), 27 November 2007
Choice may be sacred, but it’s not always empowering, 29 December 2007
It’s wiser to love our lot in life, 5 January 2008
Himglish and Femalese (review), 8 August 2009
This Restless Life (review), 29 August 2009
Mama Mia (review), 19 September 2009
Marry Him: the case for settling for Mr Good Enough (review), 20 February 2010
Amortality: the pleasures and perils of living agelessly (review), July 2011
Sex and the twenties, 3 August 2011

Vogue
Great Sexpectations, March 2010

The Walkley Magazine
Chick lit with a sense of humour, August 2007
All About Allison, August 2008

YEN
Where Are the Warhols Now?, December/January 2006
Get Fully Sick In Asia, December/January 2006
Anatomy of an Ethical Porn Site, February/March 2006
As Seen on TV, February/March 2006
Camp No More, April/May 2006
The State of the Virus, June/July 2006
Faith No More, June/July 2006
Real(ity) Pains, August/September 2006
The Silver Factory, October/November 2006
Values for Money, April/May 2007
24-Hour Party People, June/July 2007
To Die For, June/July 2007