Opinion and Comment

I have written comment pieces for more than a decade for the opinion pages of the Herald Sun as well as with my own weekend column. My pieces have also been published through the News.com.au, Rendezvous, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age websites where they have generated strong engagement. Below is a selection of my work.

Siobhan Duck is a brilliant writer who matches a keen eye with a keener mind and has the ability to interpret the absurdities of our complex world.
— David Pougher, Herald Sun opinion editor
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Sharon Tate

My take on Vogue’s tasteless attempt to link fashion revival to a shocking crime.

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Sisto

Sisto Malaspina died doing what he did every day in life - looking after other people. Like many, I have know Sisto my whole life.

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What’s in a name?

Shakespeare believed a rose by any name would be as sweet, what would he make of a kid called abcde.

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True blue

Malcolm Turnbull wasn’t the first - and won’t be last - but can we all please give up this hackneyed idea of what it means to be Australian?

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Scary stuff

Watching the parade of A-list female actors now gracing the small screen has become the stuff of nightmares — quite literally.

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Grant Denyer

I have many questions about the world, but one of them is not what is happening in Grant Denyer’s bedroom.