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Trapdoor Spider Rescue

In January 2024, myself along with trapdoor spider ecologist Dr Leanda Mason, threatened invertebrate expert Loxley Fedec, and 22 wonderful volunteers relocated 40 trapdoor spiders in the Porongurup Range National Park whose burrows were in the path of new construction. Construction was completed in June 2024 and early signs point to every spider surviving the […]

‘Split’ selected for 2024 VCE English curriculum

I’m so pleased that my short story ‘Split’, a creative impression of Perth in deep time, has been selected as a key text for high school students studying VCE English in the state of Victoria, Australia. Here is information from the State Library of Victoria website: “A Western Australian author and descendent of the Noongar […]

Yhonnie Scarce Exhibition Review

I was honoured to write a feature review for ‘The Light Of Day‘, the world class retrospective of Yhonnie Scarce’s artworks currently showing at The Art Gallery of WA. The review was in the March 2nd issue of the Saturday Paper, or subscribers can read it online here. Scarce’s glass artworks of bush plums, bush […]