The most recent two issues of the Journal of Law and Medicine carry articles authored or co-authored by me. The first is lead-authored by Mike O’Connor (with me and Cameron Stewart) and is titled ‘Sexual Boundary Violations by Doctors – Context, Regulatory Consequences and Preventive Strategies’ (see PMID 38761390). In that paper, we discuss the […]

A genome-edited pig kidney I was pleased to be invited to reflect on the future of xenotransplantation and human genome editing recently in an interview on ABC’s The World with Beverley O’Connor. The interview was broadcast following news of the unfortunate passing of Richard “Rick” Slayman — the first human to have received a genome-edited […]

The chimeric monkey experiment I was quoted in this article today regarding a newly published study in Cell that demonstrates, in the author’s words, that ‘mammalian pluripotent stem cells possess preimplantation embryonic cell-like (naive) pluripotency.’ As the summary notes, this discovery about embryonic stem cells can now be said to have been demonstrated experimentally through […]

This month has been a busy month for my semi-scholarly work. At the start of the month, I wrote this piece for the Conversation about the so-called crackdown on the cosmetics procedures sector announced by AHPRA around 7 September 2023. Following the publication of that piece, I was lucky to be asked to appear on […]

Legal errors impacting those entitled to social security benefits continue to arise in Australia

I was interviewed alongside two leading voices in plastic and cosmetic surgery on 2SER

Overruling Roe and Casey I’m very disappointed by the result of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The majority holding of the SCOTUS opinion (authored by Justice Alito) is summarised in the headnote as follows: The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion […]

I’ve begun a substack blog titled Welfare Law in Australia. The purpose of the blog is to write and compile a bunch of informal notes about welfare law in Australia, primarily in the Administrative Appeals Tribunals, as I develop my interest in this field. Please visit the substack at https://welfare.substack.com/ Although my primary interest remains […]

Philament is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes scholarship by postgraduates and early-career academics on literature, cultural studies, and the arts. I have been managing editor of the journal since 2016, so it’s a thrill to publish the journal’s 25th volume and at the same time launch a new website at www.philamentjournal.com. Both the volume […]

I’m writing this quick update simply to share my recent movements and my goings-on in the coming months. One success story of last year was finishing the final version of my major report for the Medical Council of NSW, titled “Regulating Medical Practitioners in the Public Interest: A Qualitative Review of Public Interest-based Decisions of the […]

Well, it’s certainly been a long time since I’ve written anything here — almost 8 months. For that reason, I thought I’d better put together a quick update on my goings on. I am currently working on a report on the meaning of “public interest” as that expression appears in a state statute for a […]

Fisher’s critique of capitalist realism Although a few books, numerous essays, an art movement, a literary tradition, and an ideology have all been given the title “Capitalist Realism,” it is likely that what first springs to mind when a cultural studies scholar hears those two words is a small book published in 2009. More than six years since its publication, that […]

I’ve been working as editor of the postgraduate journal Philament for around two years now. It has not always been an easy endeavour. For one thing, I am not paid to undertake the huge task of editing and producing the journal, a fact that certainly makes the work difficult to justify. But, despite the many […]