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Complete Bibliography

Books & Book Chapters

  • Deep Field: Humanitarian Dispatches: Hardie Grant Publishing (Melbourne & London) 2014
  • “The social impact of Typhoon Bopha on indigenous communities, livelihoods and conflict in Mindanao”. Chapter in Michele Companion (Ed) Disaster’s on Livelihoods and Cultural Survival, Taylor & Francis, March 2014.

Journal Articles

  • “‘Lots of rabbits about this year’: fragments from the war correspondence of Private Charles Harlock, Australian Imperial Force, Abroad” Griffith Review 48 (2015).
  • “Homage to Darfur” Gesher 2012
  • “How to Survive an Earthquake” Griffith Review 35 (2012)
  • “The Mission” Granta 117 (2011).
  • “Political Complexities of Humanitarian Intervention in the Pakistan Earthquake” (with Jawad Hussein Qureshi) Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (Feinstein International Centre, Tufts University) January 2007.
  • “Democratisation, economic reform and human rights in Poland” Eras Journal (Monash University) November 2006.
  • “Humanitarian intervention in a sovereign state: the political fault-lines of the Pakistan earthquake” Humanitarian Exchange 34 (Overseas Development Institute, UK) July 2006.
  • “Can constitutional structures be used to restore peace and stability to post-conflict societies?” Dialogue (University of Queensland) 3 (3) January 2006.
  • “Bely and the Mongols: Geopolitical Visions in Andrey Bely’s Petersburg” Contemporary Europe Research Centre Working Paper Series (University of Melbourne) 2005.
  • “Hordes and Massed Machines: Samuel Huntington in Russia” Traffic 7 (University of Melbourne) 2005.
  • “The Balkans in the British Imagination: Perceptions of the South Eastern Europe in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb Grey Falcon and Edith Durham’s High Albania”, CEESA Review (Deakin University), May 2005. 

Journalism

  • “Reflections of a humanitarian aid worker: an interview with Tom Bamforth” Devpolicy (ANU Development Policy Centre) 30 July 2014 with Margaret Callan.
  • “Mixing science with belief: how climate change became an acceptable topic in Tuvalu” (case study) World Disasters Report 2014 (IFRC)
  • “Turning our backs on foreign aid” Saturday Paper 21/6/2014
  • “Antonovs, technicals and the insane logic of war in the desert” Inside Story 26/3/2014
  • “The human costs of cutting aid” Arena Magazine (127) Dec/Jan 2014
  • “Typhoon Bopha survivors languish in ‘uninhabitable’ homes as funding shortfall stalls recovery efforts” AlertNet (Thomson/Reuters) 25/3/2013
  • “Sluggish relief a blow to typhoon-hit Philippines” South China Morning Post 18/2/2013
  • “Disasters and development in the Philippines: why scaling up to Typhoon Bopha is critical” AlertNet (Thomson/Reuters) 14/2/2013
  • “Field notes from the Thai-Burma border” Arena Magazine (110) Feb/March 2011
  • “Sudan’s future is hostage to precarious vote” The Age 2/12/2010
  • “Do not judge Pakistan through the prism of the war on terror” The Age 5/2/2008
  • “World turns a blind eye to genocide” The Age 20/6/2008

Reviews

  • Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars is More Important than Winning Them, David Keen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012 – Inside Story 18/2/2013
  • Economic Reform in Developing Countries, edited by José Maria Fanelli & Lyn Squire. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2008 – Progress in Development (London School of Economics) October 2010 (10) 4.
  • Westminster Legacies – Democracy and Responsible Government in
    Asia and the Pacific,
    edited by Haig Patapan, John Wanna and Patrick Weller. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005 – Dialogue (University of Queensland) 3(3) January 2006 

Reports

  • “Real Time Evaluation of Typhoon Haiyan Response, Philippines” International Federation of Red Cross (March 2014)
  • “Building local capacity for DRR and climate change adaptation in the Pacific – a Red Cross perspective” UNISDR Global Assessment Report on DRR, Australian Red Cross (February 2014)
  • “Review of Tonga Red Cross Disaster Management Program” Australian Red Cross (March 2011)
  • “Gender integration in disaster preparedness (literature review)” Australian Red Cross (February 2010)

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