I’m a SOPA Award-winning journalist whose work has also been honoured by the Human Rights Press Awards. My writing has been published in global, national and regional publications.
I worked at The Phnom Penh Post in Cambodia, from 2011-2015, reporting extensively on a range of human rights, labour and political issues. I was also managing editor and national news editor at various stages. 
Prior to that, I was a staff reporter and subeditor at Fairfax newspapers in Australia between 2007-2011. I became an academic in 2016, but freelanced until 2019.
Since 2004, my journalism has appeared in (or on):
- The Phnom Penh Post
- The Economist
- The Sydney Morning Herald
- The Age (Australia)
- The Nikkei Asian Review (Japan)
- The Edge Review (Malaysia)
- The Diplomat (Japan)
- The Financial Daily (Malaysia)
- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Crikey (Australia)
- Asia One
- The Melbourne Leader
- Stock & Land (Australia)
- The Canberra Times
- The Bendigo Advertiser (Australia)
- Faster Louder (Australia)
- Inpress (Australia)
- The Manic Times (Australia)
Reporting highlights include:
- Receiving a Human Rights Press Award commendation for my work on a package about human trafficking for The Edge Review
- Receiving Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) awards for breaking news with The Phnom Penh Post
- Covering the 2013 Cambodian national election
- Covering the 2016 Australian election as a foreign correspondent for Japan’s Nikkei Asian Review — at times, filing from my childhood home
- Covering the trials of imprisoned human rights activists Yorm Bopha and the Boeung Kak 13 in Cambodia
- Covering the 2012 ASEAN summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Story archive at the Nikkei Asian Review
Selected journalism
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Title |
Source |
Year |
Link |
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Cambodian politics: Back to your seats |
The Economist |
2014 |
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Mao memorial concerts create drama in Australia |
Nikkei Asian Review |
2016 |
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The Vietnam War spy who didn’t love us |
The Diplomat |
2018 |
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A justice of sorts |
The Economist |
2013 |
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Released, but hardly free |
The Economist |
2014 |
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Protests in Cambodia: the scent of lotus |
The Economist |
2013 |
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City Hall’s pipe dream: Drainage ‘deadly’ at Boeung Kak |
The Phnom Penh Post |
2014 |
The Phnom Penh Post website is now down, unfortunately |
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Running shoes leave bloody footprints |
Crikey |
2013 |
