This piece was written as part of a compilation of ‘first meeting’ stories published by Penguin in 2007. Tamsin and I were married in 2008 and now have three kids.
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Man & Beast, edited Andrew Rule, MUP, 2016
Your Shirt is a Tablecloth
Growing up barracking for Richman
Love, Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
The Sunday Age, 'Love These Days', 26/1/14
Last Day Gifts
ABC, The Splash, 9/12/13
Farewell to Fee
The Trip, December 2013
We’ll Always Have Kaiserslautern
Australia United, GSP, 2006
One, Two, Three, Sit
'Kitchen Table Memoirs', ABC Books, 2013
And Another!
Footy Town, Malarkey Publications, 2013
School Behind Bars
Good Weekend, 23/3/2013
The Lights Brigade
The Age (melbourne) Magazine, 30/11/2012
Hollywood’s 65 year old wunderkind
The Monthly, October 2012, p20
Fletch! A Tribute to a Legend
The Age (Melbourne) Magazine, 31/08/12
Miss Footy 1969
Good Weekend, 26/5/2012
An Ode to Our Warnie: No.2 Shane Warne
"Australia: Story of a Cricket Country", ed Christian Ryan, (Hardie Grant, 2011)
Best on Ground – Great Writers on The Greatest Game
Penguin, 2010, ed. Peter Corris and John Dale
Always Hoped That I’d Be an Apostle
The Scrivener's Fancy
Today Tonight, Tonight
The Scrivener's Fancy, July 2010
Passion Plays in the Wee Hours
Sydney Morning Herald, 9/6/2010
An Old Leopard Bears Its Teeth
Wheeler Centre, 10/3/2010
Terror on the Tracks
Good Weekend, 31/1/2010
The Birds
The Age Magazine, 12/12/09
Buddy Makes Me Laugh
2009 Footy Almanac, Foreword, Malarkey Press
The Silk Road to South Africa
The Socceroo Magazine, 09/10/09
Chasing the Tiger
Brisbane Times, September 15, 2009
They don’t want it, we don’t want it, so why the hell do it?
The Age, 09/08/09
Having a Ball
The Best Australian Humorous Writing, 2009
Dear Polly
Australian Baby Guide 2009
Hot in the City: Summer in the CBD
Vibe Magazine, 385, Dec 2008
Planes, Trains and a Socceroos Cyclone
FourFourTwo, Dec 08
Playing it straight: Why jock jokes are bad form
The Age, 27/07/08
The Italian Job
The Age, 30/5/08
The Job of my life
The Trip, 3RRR, October 2007
Having a Ball: How we finally fell in love with the world game
The Age (Melbourne) Magazine, 25/10/07
Fiction Dacked by Reality
The Age, A2, 15/9/07
The Painful Truth
Good Weekend, 5/5/07
Love is Blind
'How We Met', Penguin, 2007
A Beautiful Set of Numbers
afl.com.au, 22/5/06
My Seat in Heaven
The Age, 18/11/05
If Barry Hall Were a Brunette
“No Looking With The Hands”
The Monthly, July 2005
Alan Woods and His Amazing Computer: A Nags-to-Riches Story
The Monthly, 2005
Triple R’s own Adam Elliott
Triple R Subscriber Magazine 'The Trip'
Sporting Australia (boxed text)
Lonely Planet's 'Australia' guidebook
An Island That is Just There for the Taking
The Age, 14/1/04
There’s a lot of money in that ‘unique’ cricket memorabilia
The Age, 31/12/03
Forget the inner lawyer – bite the bigger bikkie
The Age, 24/12/2003
Coming on Down: Diary of a Game Show Hopeful
The Age Green Guide, 18/12/03
Like in the Time of Girl Germs
The Age, 11/9/2003
Let War’s Silent Victims Be Heard
The Age, 20/1/2003
New Zealanders Become Lords of the Ringing Cash Registers
The Age, 13/1/03
HECS and the Single Girl
The Age, 6/1/03
Uncovered: The Pie who came in from the cold
The Age, 28/9/2002
Of Killer Bees and Jamborees
The Age, Grren Guide, 20/6/2002
Soemtimes Grout is Forever
The Age, 27/5/2002
An Audience with Chairman Stan
The Age, 18/4/02
A Whole New Ball Game
The Age, Green Guide, 4/4/2002
The Yellow Pages is a Very Big Book
The Age, 24/1/02
Doggone Pretzel Strikes Again
The Age, 17/1/2002
Mobile phones: A Matter of Life and Debt
The Age, 10/1/2002
Ethical Tourism With a Long Lens
The Age, 27/12/2001
Oi! Oi! Oi! (or, how I lost my pizza in Uruguay)
The Age, 28/11/01
Guess who’s still top 3 with the ladies of Bangalore?
The Age, 2/4/01
India! India! India the best!’
The Age, 27/3/01
The Game With Everything
The Age,, 20/3/01
You Make Me Feel … Like a Virtual Woman
The Age, 24/1/2001
There’s a Whiff of Free Beer in the Air
The Age, 17/1/2001
The Ball of the Century: Redux
The Age, 10/1/2001
Inheriting Father’s Nuclear Neurosis
The Age, 3/1/2001
Grave Doubts Over Tunnel Vision
The Age, 27/12/200
The House of Stoush and the Meaning of True Romance
The Age, 8/11/200
It’s About Decimal Time
The Age, 8/10/2000
My night as a Tish Tennis Star
The Age 1/10/2000
Coming to terms with the Snickers bar incident
The Age, 23/9/00
Believing in the Impossible
Coach, Inspiration and Aspiration, IA, 2000
Hi World, from Aisle 334 Row 24
The Age, 17/9/00
She Did It
The Day De Castella Beat the Pain in Spain
The Age, 10/9/2000
An Olympics Love Affair Sealed With a Kiss
The Age, 10/9/00
The Spirit Is Willing But the Legs Are Weak
The Age, 23/7/00
A Quarter of a Day in the Life of Matt Tilley
The Age, 27/4/00
ER, Queen, Please Sign My Ball?
The Age, 26/3/00
Dad, Dermie, Dipper, Donuts and Me
Kicking Around the Issues with Harry the Giraffe
The Age, 12/9/99
Cereal Monogamy
Good Weekend, 1/7/99
My Saturday night was the same as Mal Walden’s
The Age, 27/2/1999
The Laziness of the Long Distance Runner
The Age, 13/1/99
The Door Bitch You Will Meet in Heaven
The Age