appeared or reviewed or profiled in

RIGHT: Cover of The Weekend Australian Review section.

· The Adelaide Advertiser (Aus)

· The Age (Aus)

· The Age Saturday Extra (Aus)

· Arena Magazine

· Art Corridor (Asia)

· American Association of Suicidology Review (USA)

· The Australian (Aus)

· The Australian Book Review (Aus)

· Australian Bookseller & Publisher (Aus)

· Australian Country Style (Aus)

· The Australian Magazine (Aus)

· Australian Style (Aus)

· The Bendigo Advertiser (Aus)

· The Brisbane News (Aus)

· Buddhist International News (International)

· The Bulletin (Aus)

· The Bulletin (USA)

· The Canberra Times (Aus)

· The City Weekly (Aus)

· Cleo (Aus)

· Collage (Aus)

· CoolCleveland.com (USA)

· Cosmopolitan (UK & Aus)

· The Courier-Mail (Aus)

· Cul de Sac (Italy)

· The Daily Telegraph (Aus)

· Depression Alliance Magazine (UK)

· The Echo (Aus)

· The Economist (UK)

· Elle (Aus)

· Elle (International)

· Fairlady (ZA)

· Fresh Yarn (USA)

· FHM (Aus)

· Gleebooks Gleaner (Aus)

· The Good Weekend (Aus)

· The Globe and Mail (Can)

· Harper's Bazaar (International)

· The Herald Sun (Aus)

· Health Today (South-East Asia)

· Helsingin Sanomat (Finland)

· HQ (Aus)

· Home Beautiful (Aus)

· Inside Melbourne (Aus)

· Juice (Aus)

· Kotimaa (Finland)

· Liquid Space Digital (International)

· Living Traditions (International)

· Lucire (New Zealand)

· The Mail on Sunday (UK)

· Mannheimer Morgen (Germany)

· Meanjin (Aus)

· Mediawatch (Aus)

· Mensa International Journal (International)

· Mensa Switzerland (Switzerland)

· Men's Style (Aus)

· Mind-Magazin (Germany)

· Mode (Aus)

· The Morning Bulletin (Aus)

· My Child (Aus)

· Neue Revue (Germany)

· The Newcastle Herald (Aus)

· Panorama (Aus & South-East Asia)

· Perth Sunday Times (Aus)

· Revolver (Aus)

· Rolling Stone (Aus)

· Serendib (Sri Lanka)

· Sonnenverlag (Germany)

· The South China Morning Post (Asia)

· Stiletto (Aus)

· The Sunday Age (Aus)

· Sunday Life! (Aus)

· Sunday Magazine (Aus)

· The Sunday Age (Aus)

· The Sunday Mail (Aus)

· The Sunday Telegraph (Aus)

· The Sunday Times (UK)

· The Sunday Times (ZA)

· The Sun Herald (Aus)

· The Sydney Morning Herald (Aus)

· The Sydney Papers (Aus)

· The Sydney Weekly (Aus)

· TableAus (Aus)

· Tatler (UK)

· Tempo (Aus)

· The Times (UK)

· Time Out (UK)

· The John Updike Home Page (USA)

· The Village Journal (Aus)

· Vive (Aus & South East Asia)

· Vogue (Aus)

· Voices (Aus)

· Waxwing - The Nabokov Appreciation Site (USA)

· The Weekend Australian (Aus)

- Wellbeing (International)

· Who (Aus)

· The West Australian (Aus)

· Yoga Magazine (UK)

magazine covers

· TableAus: The Mensa Journal (2004)

· The City Weekly (1998)

· The Sydney Weekly (1998)

· The Weekend Australian (national paper, 2004)

television appearances

· Pizza, directed by Paul Fenech, SBS

· Beauty & the Beast, Foxtel & Channel 10

· The Midday Show, Channel 9

· Arena, Foxtel

· At Home, Channel 7

· 11am, Channel 7

· Face The Press, SBS

· Mediawatch, ABC

· Real Life, Channel 7

· Red, Galaxy

· Review, ABC

· Simon Townsend's Wonder World, Channel 10

· Today Extra, NBN

· Today Show, Channel 9, Sydney

· Today Show, Channel 7, Brisbane

· TVTV, ABC

writers' festivals

· 1998 Melbourne Writers' Festival: five panels (That Obscure Object - an examination of desire in fiction with Rod Jones, Patrick Gale, and Marion Halligan; Location! Location! Location! - discussion on the creation of a sense of place in literature with P.D. James, Catherine Lim, and Louise Adler; That Old Black Magic - chair of a discussion on mysticism and magical realism with Paulo Coelho, Raimondo Cortese, and Carmel Bird; Coelho on Magic - discussion with Paulo Coelho on magic in both fiction and reality; The Writer's Voice - reading)

· 1998 Brisbane Writers' Festival: three panels (The Start of Something Big - chair of a discussion of famous first words with Catherine Chidgey, Steven Carroll, Inez Baranay; Lipstick on Your Collar - an examination of adultery in literature with Patrick Gale and Andrea Goldsmith; The Writer's Voice - reading)

· 1999 Somerset Celebration of Literature: three sessions (A Champagne Breakfast - a question and answer session about language and literature; The Serious Business of Humour - panel with Gretel Killeen, hosted by Christine Harris; The Great Debate - second speaker affirmative, with Sandy McCutcheon, Marion Halligan, Kathryn Lowe, Gretel Killeen, Margaret Clark)

addresses, readings, or lectures

· Brunswick Street Bookstore (Melbourne)

· The CUB Malthouse (The Bagging Room, The Merlyn Theatre, The Tower, Melbourne)

· Gleebooks (Sydney)

· The Harold Park Hotel (Sydney)

· Australian Mensa Chairman's Annual Dinner, 2000, Wesley College, Sydney University, (Guest of Honour)

· The Sydney Morning Herald's Word on Sunday at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)

· Pymble Ladies College (Sydney)

· The Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)

· The Queensland Cultural Centre (Auditorium, River Tent, Brisbane)

· The Sydney Opera House

· Skygardens (Sydney)

· Somerset College (Gold Coast, Queensland)

· The State Library of Queensland (Brisbane)

· The Sydney University Literary Awards (co-judged with Kate Grenville)

· The Sydney University Union Annual Dinner (Guest of Honour)

· The Sydney Institute, The University of Technology (Sydney)

acknowledgments

· Roy Williams, in God, Actually, ABC Books, 2008;

· Dr. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Professor of Marine Sciences at the University of Queensland, in his coral bleaching paper for Greenpeace, 1999;

· Stephen Liggins, in The Candlemaker, 1999;

· Jessica Adams, author of Single White E-Mail, in Astrology for Women, HarperCollins 1998;

· Jenni Lans, in If It Wasn't for the Money, I Wouldn't Be Doing This, HarperCollins 2000.

some university courses in which the work is used

· Macquarie University: MAS 105 Media Cultures Course - McKenzie Wark (1998)

· Macquarie University: MAS 830 Writing/Context/Theory - McKenzie Wark (1999)

··Macquarie University: MA Course in Nonfiction Writing - McKenzie Wark (1998)

· Macquarie University: MAS 809 Australian Communications - McKenzie Wark (1999)

· University of Technology, Sydney: Journalism - Recommended Reading, (1998)

· MECO 2002: Writing for Print Media - Assoc. Prof. Catharine Lumby (2001/2)