Writing.
I write long form, mostly in response to something that has just happened and almost always against the easy reading of it. Every essay lives here in full.Everything I have written, in full. The newest is first. You can choose a topic.
23 essays and 10 earlier pieces. Start with the newest, or follow a thread.
Greek identity24 September 2026
I Want to Understand
Forty days after my sister died, in the half light of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens.Only later did I realise that today marks forty days since she died, and I still don’t quite know what to do with that coincidence.7 min readSocial cohesion / Public life28 July 2026
We Don't Need More Conversations. We Need Better Ways of Thinking Together.
For the past five years I've been building an experiment in how institutions think together.6 min readAutistic pride22 July 2026Not Every Struggle Announces Itself with a Cyclops
On darkness, autism and the Odyssey, and why it is not always possible to tell where the darkness ends and the condition begins.5 min readGreek identity / Social cohesion / Interculturalism20 July 2026The Language We Forget In
The man who speaks of exile in Greek and votes against the next arrivals in English.5 min readGreek identity / Interculturalism20 July 2026The Most Greek Thing in Nolan's Odyssey Is Homer
Three arguments tangled together in one casting controversy, and the one that matters.6 min readAutistic pride / Public life15 July 2026Albanese asked the right question on AI. Here's the next one.
AI did not make me smarter. It made me understandable. The case for measuring participation, not only productivity.3 min readSocial cohesion / Interculturalism14 July 2026The Socceroos Know How Belonging Works.
For fifty years we have counted who turns up. We have never measured what happens between them.3 min readSocial cohesion / Public life / Interculturalism12 July 2026Long Before the Final Whistle, SBS Scored for Australia
In an age when shared attention is the scarcest thing in public life, SBS still creates it.9 min readSocial enterprise10 July 2026The $21 billion sector locked out of delivering its own funding
Investment announced as enterprise growth becomes, in practice, intermediary growth.8 min readSocial cohesion / Interculturalism8 July 2026Unpopular Opinion: The Price of Speaking Your Mind
Australia rejected cultural monoculture and may have replaced it with a behavioural one.5 min readQueer politics3 July 2026Mardi Gras Doesn’t Have a People Problem. It Has a Governance Problem.
A former director on the structural problem the 4 July EGM cannot solve.5 min readAutistic pride30 June 2026The cry that didn't come
Think Autism Melbourne 2026. A reflection3 min readSocial cohesion / Greek identity / Interculturalism26 April 2026What we lost when we imported America's race conversation
Isocrates, paideia, and why nations are political projects rather than racial facts.It accepts, in its operating logic, the central premise of the racism it opposes: that race is the thing that matters most about a person.5 min readAutistic pride21 April 2026
You Can't Cut Your Way Out of a Broken System
160,000 people moved off the NDIS, and why "lower support needs" is a sorting mechanism dressed as a clinical term.6 min readQueer politics10 April 2026Pride in a Hardening World: The Illusion of Stability
Pride in a Hardening World, part 1 of 3Part one. Have we confused visibility with stability?4 min readAudio essayQueer politics10 April 2026Pride in a Hardening World: From Protest to Institution
Pride in a Hardening World, part 2 of 3Part two. What happens when protest becomes infrastructure.4 min readAudio essayQueer politics10 April 2026Pride in a Hardening World: The Cost of Moral Certainty
Pride in a Hardening World, part 3 of 3Part three. When certainty becomes culture rather than compass.4 min readAudio essayGreek identity / Public life10 April 2026Within Range
Forgive me for not celebrating war. Conflict seen from Australia, measured from Cyprus and Greece.4 min readAudio essayAutistic pride10 April 2026Autism is trending. I am done waiting.
You cannot set people on fire and then call them hot. On diagnosis, exclusion and refusing the label of vulnerable.3 min readPublic life21 March 2026The Liberal Party Did Not Lose Last Night. It Was Absorbed.
One Nation near a fifth of the primary vote, and a right reorganising around a new centre of gravity.11 min readAudio essayPublic life8 March 2026Equality Is Not a Moment. It Is a System.
The real test of International Women's Day happens the day after.6 min readPublic life2 February 2026Distance Is a Way of Thinking
I live between Greece and Australia. In practical terms, that means I move constantly between Melbourne and Sydney, Athens and Thessaloniki.4 min readAudio essayEarlier.
Pieces from 2024 and 2025, first published on LinkedIn and kept as they were written.
Public life31 December 2025
Nothing Resets at Midnight
The end-of-year piece I usually publish didn’t make sense this time.4 min readAudio essaySocial cohesion / Public life16 December 2025After Bondi, Distance No Longer Holds
Global violence has shaped Australian life for years through prices and policy.4 min readAudio essaySocial enterprise29 August 2025When the Dance Floor Turns Toxic: The Failings of Australia’s NFP Sector
I’ve sat on the dance floor of NFP boards. What I saw was not impact — it was survival, power, and bullshit.3 min readAutistic pride22 August 2025Nothing About Autism Is Mild
I was diagnosed Autistic late in life. That diagnosis wasn’t just a medical formality — it was a revelation.4 min readPublic life14 August 2025In the Era of AI, Are We Still Thinking for Ourselves?
We like to believe we’re thinking for ourselves. But look closely at the conversations filling our feeds and inboxes, and it’s hard to ignore the pattern: same tone, same emojis, same structure, same “insights.” It’s what’s now called AI slop — technically correct, neat enough to pass as smart, but hollow.5 min readGreek identity / Social cohesion / Interculturalism9 June 2025What’s in a Name? Everything White Australia Still Can’t Say
Let’s start with the basics: If you can say Tchaikovsky, ceviche, or Margarita-with-a-salted-rim-but-hold-the-agave, you can say Kyriakos.4 min readAutistic pride26 May 2025Autistic Pride Day Didn’t Need Reinventing. It Needed Infrastructure—and We Built It
Autistic Pride Day already existed. The idea.4 min readAutistic pride / Public life17 April 2025Autistic People Aren’t Your Political Scapegoats: A Letter to Australia
This isn’t just political. It’s personal.3 min readAutistic pride24 November 2024Separating Autism from Personality: Lessons from Elon Musk
Autism shapes how we process the world—it influences our sensory responses, communication styles, and how we interpret social norms.4 min readAutistic pride14 October 2024Navigating Senior Roles as an Autistic Leader: 5 Steps to Prevent Bullying, Mobbing, and Unsafe Workplaces
Being Autistic in a senior leadership role comes with a unique set of strengths and challenges.5 min readNothing in this thread yet.