Commissioned work, written for the people who have to act on it: a national commission, a foundation, a child and family agency, a classroom.
The first asks what an employer owes someone who has survived domestic and family violence: what the Fair Work Act and the psychosocial-risk framework require on paper, and what a frontline manager actually does on the day.
The second reads child protection law in New South Wales against the Australian Capital Territory, and follows the difference down into internal policy and into practice.
Written from strengths rather than deficits: kinship obligations as an asset, community control of the programme, cross-agency work, and practice that assumes trauma rather than discovering it late.
Classes for classmates who had arrived from elsewhere, reading western social theory from elsewhere: what it assumes, where it fits, and where it does not.
Commissioned through the Sydney Policy Reform Project, and written against the Commission’s own national inquiry of 2014: what changed in law and workplace practice since, what did not, and who is still carrying the cost.
Deposited open access at the University of Sydney in November 2025.