A disability-rights and justice series in active development, alongside discipline-spanning works in progress. These are honest works-in-progress — not yet published — and will pass manuscript completion, evidence verification, peer feedback and publisher review before release.
Australia's International Human Rights Commitments and the Disability Support Gap
A study of the gap between CRPD rights and NDIS realities — examining how Australia's international human-rights commitments translate, or fail to translate, into lived disability support.
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Procedural Fairness, Tribunal Access, and Australia's Rule of Law Commitments
Examines procedural fairness, tribunal access and accountability against Australia's rule-of-law commitments — where the cost of justice determines who can reach it.
Swinburne University of Technology
Treaty Promises and the Politics of Disability Consultation in Australia
Explores treaty promises and the politics of disability consultation — testing the CRPD principle of participation against the reality of who gets a seat at the table.
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Indefinite Detention, Forensic Disability, and Australia's Human Rights Obligations
Investigates indefinite detention and forensic disability against the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — the people detained without conviction, and the obligations owed to them.
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
Fiscal Accountability and Disability Rights in a Signatory Nation
Traces fiscal accountability and disability rights in a signatory nation — following the money to ask whether funding reaches the participants it was promised to.
Swinburne University of Technology
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
The developmental book projects below are grouped by discipline. They are works in progress, not published books, and will require manuscript completion, evidence verification, peer feedback and publisher review.
Grid intelligence, communication, resilience and modern electricity networks.
Synchrophasor monitoring and protection strategies for interconnected networks.
Detection, damping, system stability and operational analysis.
Signal detection, classification and interpretation of neural activity.
Research design, evidence assessment, data analysis and ethical translation.
Biocompatibility, control theory, signal processing and closed-loop neuroprosthetics.
Access to justice, inequality, Indigenous disadvantage and institutional reform.
NDIS governance, participant rights, review systems and reform pathways.
Source payments, conflicts of interest, verification and newsroom accountability.
Translation of technical and social research into accessible public-interest media.
Not decoration, but a reading pathway — authors on purpose, discipline, resilience, ethical leadership, creativity, systems thinking and service.
I read one book at a time, guided by a defined question. I record three ideas, one disagreement and one action. I revisit the notes after thirty days and assess whether my behaviour, decision-making or project design has changed. Inspiration becomes valuable only when it produces disciplined action.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
— Helen Keller
Meaningful collaboration begins with a shared problem, a clear contribution from each partner and an honest method for measuring results.