Joel Deane 26/9/25 Joel Deane 26/9/25

From the archive: Australia’s (Re)awakening

Overland lecture on Australian politics and public language — delivered on 26 September 2006.

Joel Deane 22/9/25 Joel Deane 22/9/25

From the archive: ‘Political language can illuminate the darkness’

The speech I wrote (and delivered) to explain why I became a political speechwriter — and how I work.

Joel Deane 24/7/22 Joel Deane 24/7/22

My farewell email to politics was leaked to the media, so I may as well republish it here.

Joel Deane 6/10/20 Joel Deane 6/10/20

Meanjin asked me to write about what newspapers used to be like. So I did.

Joel Deane 15/5/19 Joel Deane 15/5/19

OnBeing commentary from 1994.

Joel Deane 12/3/19 Joel Deane 12/3/19

My feature article on DefCon, circa 1997.

Joel Deane 21/3/16 Joel Deane 21/3/16

A poem from Subterranean Radio Songs.