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FROM 2008 UNTIL 2021 I REVIEWED CONSISTENTLY, FOR THE AGE, AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW, THE AUSTRALIAN, CORDITE, and the BIG ISSUE.
THESE ARE THE ONES I CAN FIND.

ABR

The 30 or so book reviews I wrote for ABR between 2008-2021 are paywalled but available to subscribers. I am pasting them in to a page here. But here are two film reviews I wrote for them in 2015:
THE DRESSMAKER
by Jocelyn Moorhouse
HOLDING THE MAN
by Neil Armfield

THE AGE

Here are some of the reviews I wrote for the Age in the same period:
THE LAND I CAME THROUGH LAST by Robert Gray
OUTSIDE by David McCooey
UNDYING: A LOVE STORY by Michael Faber
WAITING by Philip Salom
YEAR OF THE WASP by Joel Deane
FIRST PERSON by Richard Flanagan
HELLO BEAUTIFUL by Hannie Rayson
THE EVERLASTING SUNDAY by Robert Lukins
THE DUST THAT FALLS FROM DREAMS by Louis de Bernieres
ABDUCTING A GENERAL by Patrick Leigh Fermor
DISPLACED: A RURAL LIFE by John Kinsella
THE SELLOUT by Paul Beatty
AN ENGLISH AFFAIR: SEX, CLASS AND POWER IN THE AGE OF PROFUMO
By Richard Davenport-Hines
EMPIRES by Nick Earls
KINDRED by Kate Legge
THE POLITICS OF MYTH by Stephen Knight
CRIMSON CROP by Peter Rose
TRIGGER WARNING by Maria Takolander
A BRIEF AFFAIR by Alex Miller
THE IDEALIST by Nicholas Jose

CORDITE
Jan Owen/Tim Cumming
THE THIN BRIDGE Andy Jackson
Geoff Goodfellow

THE AUSTRALIAN

AUSTRALIAN GYPSIES: Mandy Sayer
Australian poetry: Fahey, Kamler, Sezen, Kefala
Australian poets: Lawrence; Page; Wallis; Giannoukos
Poetry by Tony Birch, Jen Crawford, Claire Nashar, Rachael Briggs
Farrell’s Australian Unsettlement rewrites literary history
Poet Peter Rose revisits loss in The Subject of Feeling
David Brooks and Michael Farrell publish dark verses and light
Silvery responsibility of knowing everything
Poets find their locus in mirage