Jon Piccini

Sep 11, 2024 | overland.org.au | Liam Blackford |Scott Robinson |Jon Piccini

Holden Sheppard’s Invisible Boys — lately in the news for its TV adaptation on Stan — is an imperfect but extremely entertaining novel that deserves its success. I argue that it is a canonically important work of Australian gay literature, a monument of eroticised and anxious masculinity belonging to a legacy including titles such as Christos Tsiolkas’ Loaded and Barracuda, or Tim Winton’s Breath.

Apr 10, 2024 | overland.org.au | Louise Martin-Chew |Sophia Cai |Jon Piccini

Water is an elemental force that may be subtle or powerful, trickle gently, soothe or roar, and sweep all before it in a deadly trajectory. It comprises over ninety per cent of our bodies, and moves us, consciously or not, with the tides. For artist Judy Watson, water sits at the heart of her forty-year practice. It is her subject, material and inspiration. Watson harnesses and choreographs water, and has worked with its qualities since her beginnings as a printmaker.

Jan 25, 2024 | historyworkshop.org.uk | Jon Piccini

This piece accompanies Jon Piccini’s article “‘Thinking in Papua New Guinean Terms’: the Sensitive Files Case of 1972 and Australia’s Migrated Archive‘” recently published in History Workshop Journal 96. What does it mean to ‘decolonise’ the archive? European empires collected a massive paper trail about, but without the consent of, their colonial subjects.

Nov 26, 2023 | australianbookreview.com.au | Jon Piccini

The opinions of Kandiah Kamalesvaran AM, better known by his stage name Kamahl, on the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament received extensive media attention in September 2023. A household name for many Australians, the Malaysian-born crooner’s indecision frustrated both the Yes and No camps. Kamahl’s story is very much one of empire.

Sep 18, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jon Piccini |Australian Catholic

BOOK REVIEW Dreams and Schemers: A Political History of Australia. By Frank Bongiorno. Collingwood, La Trobe University Press, 2022, 480 pp, $39.99 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781760640095. First published: 18 September 2023 No abstract is available for this article.