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AI TV Writing Services

The Ghost out of the Machine

The art of expressing a director’s vision in TV commercial treatments, and why the human spirit of a ghostwriter will beat a spooky robot.

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News The Project Updates

The Project’s Difference Engine

As the curtain closes on 16 years of The Project, I look back on my own 8 years of delivering news differently.

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The Olden Days Updates

My Milestones

How seeing some of my very earliest teenage writing unexpectedly crop up online helped embrace a very in-depth profile of my creative life.

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Books Updates

Vote for the Highly Commended Squishbook and win!

Squishbook has been Highly Commended by the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and that means you can vote for it for People’s Choice – and win 10 indivdually-selected books in the process!

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Comedy The Olden Days

Laughy 30th, You Bastards

To mark the 30th anniversary of Melbourne community TV Channel 31, a look back at the station’s first sketch comedy show: Laugh You Bastards.

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Books Comedy Updates

Correcting “Mistakes” in Squishbook

Why I got out the red pen to correct 997 Squishbooks.

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Books Comedy Updates

I’m in a book – Squishbook!

SQUISHBOOK is a book for kids put together by the talented and lovely comic artists at Squishface Studio, and I’m thrilled to have been a contributing writer.

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Film Flip Updates

Flipping the script

I’m so grateful to Screen Australia for supporting Alli Parker and I to write a draft of FLIP, a genre-smashing film about the role Australia played in the birth of competitive women’s skateboarding, a sport which, 20 years later, has become an Olympic highlight.