Publications and Essays
"The Politics of Home: Transformations on the home front in a post-pandemic world", Meanjin 82 (2) Winter 2023. "Want an easy $400 a year? Ditch the gas heater in your home for an electric split system" The Conversation, 24 March, 2023. "Housing for a Changing Climate: The Commonwealth Environmental Building Station in 1950s Australia", Arcadia, Spring 2023, no. 1. "Building with hand and heart: The rebirth of do-it-yourself earth houses as environmental sentiment in post-war Australia", International Review of Environmental History 8, 2 (2022): 51-73. “People are shivering in cold and moldy homes in a country that pioneered housing comfort research – how did that happen?” The Conversation, 18 August 2022. "'Not Just a Lockdown Hobby': The making of the renters and housing union," Overland, 16 May 2022. "A Problematic Convergence: Permaculture and the Far-Right," Meanjin Quarterly, November 26, 2021. “Working from Home: An Oral History of Activism, Gender and the Environment”, Journal of Oral History Australia 43, October 2021: 85-113. “Real Men Do Real Farming, While the New Woman Goes Home: Australian Suffragists Go Back to the Land 1894–1917”, Journal of Australian Studies, July 2021. “‘Independence, thrift and Industry’ -- David Andrade’s turn back-to-the-land in the late 19th Century”, Victorian Historical Journal, 91, 1 (2020). “Problems of Place: Dealing with the Impostor Syndrome, Even At Home,” Environmental History Network (blog) July 24, 2020. “Friday essay: the Australians who pioneered self-sufficiency, generations before Nimbin.” The Conversation, July 12, 2019. “Against ‘neo-peasantry’ and the desire for self-sufficiency.” Overland April 16, 2018. “Alistair Knox (1912–1986) and the Birth of Environmental Building in Australia.” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (Autumn 2016) no. 18. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Magazine and other publications
Swings and Roundabouts - a Potted history of Gas Stoves, Renew 163 March-April 2023
Choosing Appliances for Your Electric Home, Renew 165 June-July 2023 Feature Interview - Craig Reucassel Renew 166 Dec 2023 So You Want to Be A Home Energy Assessor? - Renew 167 March-April 2024 Is Australia's Love Affair With Gas Finally Ending ? Sanctuary 63, 2023. 
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Talks, presentations and other research workSustainability researcher, program designer and lead for Renew's Getting Off Gas Toolkit gettingoffgastoolkit.com
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Webinar Hosting Sustainable House Day Extension Sessions April-May 2024 From dream to drawing board: Permits, planning and finding your team Foundations to finishes: Choosing the appropriate building materials Doing it differently: Owner building, co-housing and DIY Getting Off Gas Webinar Series July-August 2023 Planning Your All-Electric Home Choosing Appliances All-Electric Homes Solar and PV Trades, Wiring, plumbing, troubleshooting Rentals and Apartments Beyond Bal Webinar Series Dec 2023 Beyond BAL: Budget-friendly bushfire resilient homes Beyond BAL: Earth-coupled bushfire resilient homes 
UNSW History Seminar Series - June 2022. "More than a Roof over Our heads - Housing as if the Environment Mattered"
Going off-grid in the Suburbs - Public Talk for Merri-Bek Library, February 2021 with Join Glen Morris from Solarquip, and Stuart McQuire, Moreland resident and author of Water Not Down the Drain.
TedX - PermaQueer - Community Responses to Climate Change October 2020, "Natural Building for Resilience."
Reflections on my PhD presented for the Environmental History Network, March 2021
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