Essays & Opinions

FEMINIST WRITERS FESTIVAL

• A Precarious Home, March 2019

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ISLAND​

• 'Wearing the Past', Island 156, January 2019.

• With Damon Young ‘On Moving to Hobart’, Island, Issue 151, 2018.

• 'For Sale', Island, Issue 147, 2016.


• ‘In Defence of the Local Library, Island, Issue 145, 2016.


• ‘The ‘best’ death’, Island, Issue 144, 2016.


• ‘On Being a Grown-up’, Island, Issue 143, 2015.


• 'Failed Intellectuals' Island, Issue 142, 2015.


• 'Is academic publishing broken?' Island, Issue 1, 2015.

• 'Excess Baggage', Island, Issue 139, 2014.

• 'In these Liquid Times', Island, Issue 138, 2014.


• 'Other Lives', Island, Issue 137, June 2014.


• With Damon Young, 'Public Writers, Private Lives', Island, 135, 2013.


• 'The Life on Foot', Island, 134, Spring 2013.


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MEANJIN

• On Watching La La Land, Meanjin, Winter, 2017.
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DUMBO FEATHER

• Calming the angerball one step at a time

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WOMANKIND

• Quibell, R. ‘Terminal Materialism, Womankind, Issue 5, 2015.


• ‘Frida Kahlo Outside the Frame’, Womankind, Issue 4, 2015.

• Quirky habits of happiness, Womankind, Issue 3, 2015.

• 'When time is running out', Womankind, Issue 2, 2014.


• Quibell, R. 'What do interiors say about us?', Womankind, Issue 2, 2014.

• 'The Freedom Machine', Womankind, Issue 1, 2014.


• 'Shopping for our future selves', Womankind, Issue 1, 2014.

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THE AGE & SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

• With Damon Young, 'Writing on Empty', The Age, 7 December, 2013.


• Face to Face with Destiny, Sydney Morning Herald, 10 March 2012.


• Left Holding the Baby, The Age, 4 February 2012.


• Healthier, happier families take a walk on the child's side, The Age, 17 January 2012.

• 'Maybe it's time for a change of gear in fashion's fast lane', The Age, 14 January 2012.

• 'Career is dead, long live the job', Sydney Morning Herald, 9 October 2010.

• 'Living One Step at a Time', The Age A2, 24 July 2010.


• 'Object Lessons' in The Age A2, 22 May 2010.

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VICTORIA WALKS

• 'Pedestrians Matter', Victoria Walks Footprints, 23 November 2012.


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CANBERRA TIMES

• 'Selling the very soul of our homes', Canberra Times, 5 January 2012.

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ABC

• 'Can we can the car?' ABC The Drum Unleashed, 22 September 2010.

• 'Charity begins at the Cash Register', ABC The Drum Unleashed, 13 July 2009.