Media
In the 2010s, I used to do a lot of international media. This made my mother very happy as she could finally see a point to my research (especially when the piece on the left came out in The Irish Times).
In recent years, I’ve tended to do fewer interviews, but I’m still happy to talk to most national media in Australia and some international outlets. I’ve also written more than 40 comment pieces for the major newspapers in Australia and The Conversation over the last decade, some of which are listed below.
At the beginning of November 2024, I hosted a show with the former UK politician-turned-podcaster and author, Rory Stewart, before a large audience at the QPAC theatre in Brisbane. Rory confidently predicted Kamala Harris would beat Donald Trump in the presidential election. I did not.
Selected comment pieces
2025: 47% of Gen Z mainly vote to avoid a fine. It’s a sign of younger Australians’ discontent with democracy (The Conversation)
2023: Why was bunga-bunga Berlusconi so durable? He doped Italy before ruling it (Sydney Morning Herald)
2023: ‘We haven’t got anybody’: new research reveals how major parties are dying in remote Australia (The Conversation)
2023: The rise and rise of far-right populists: why democracies can’t be smug (Sydney Morning Herald)
2023: When it comes to finding Australia’s future leaders, both the Liberals and Labor have a women problem: new study (The Conversation)
2022: Italy on brink of history as it turns to a woman of the far right (Sydney Morning Herald)
Selected media interviews
2025: European CPACs show the growing unity of the global far-right (NPR, USA)
2025: Young voters at the 2025 Australian election (ABCNews Radio)
2025: Millennials & Gen Zers will outnumber Baby Boomers in Australia’s upcoming election (NPR, USA)
2024: Macron calls snap election after far right surge in EU election (ABC RN Breakfast)
2023: ‘Before Trump, there was Berlusconi’: late Italian PM’s populist legacy (ABC PM)
2023: ‘Dangerous’ rise of far-right populists grows globally (ABC PM)
2022: Far-right expected to win Italian election (The Project, Network 10)
2021: Why leave the EU, when you can shape it instead? (The Economist)