Published Scholarship and Analysis
My analytical work has been published and presented across Australian and international regulatory and public health platforms.
Evidence to inform options for a national cultural safety standard: rapid literature review and environmental scan - Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, 2026.
Commissioned by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to inform its Standards for First Nations Cultural Safety Review, this independent review of 145 peer-reviewed publications and the policy, governance and accountability frameworks of Australia, Canada, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States finds a consistent gap between what the evidence says culturally safe care requires and what current standards demand - and sets out what it would take to shift from a competency-based to an accountability-based approach.
Advisory or Authority: what decides whether Indigenous governance is real - Croakey Health Media, 10 September 2026.
A Croakey essay arguing that the advisory group is not an unfinished form of governance but a different structure altogether - and setting out the five conditions that decide whether an Indigenous governance body’s decisions stand on the day the executive would rather they didn’t.
Cultural safety under ideological attack from conservative government in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Croakey Health Media, 18 June 2026.
A Croakey analysis, co-authored with Dr Curtis Walker, of how Aotearoa's Government is winding back cultural safety in health regulation - and why protections that aren't anchored in Indigenous governance can be undone the moment the politics change.
The Blueprint: How health regulatory bodies can move from cultural safety commitment to structural transformation - Croakey Health Media, 12 June 2026.
A Croakey essay mapping the two structural thresholds - rescinding institutional power, then supporting genuine Indigenous governance - that separate a cultural safety commitment from real transformation, and the question every regulator must face: what are you willing to relinquish?
Evoking Indigenous Health Sovereignty: What Regulators Must Learn - Croakey Health Media, December 2025.
A sovereignty-grounded analysis of what genuine structural accountability requires of regulatory bodies - moving beyond advisory committees and consultation processes toward transferred decision-making authority.
Confronting the Hidden Logic of Racism in Health Practitioner Regulation - Croakey Health Media, June 2025.
An analytical account of the organisational logic that perpetuates racism within healthcare systems, and what structural redesign - rather than policy adjustment - actually requires.
How To Attract, Retain and Grow the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workforce in Australia: A Self-Determined Approach - Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, Vol. 19 No. 3, December 2024 (peer-reviewed, Scopus and Web of Science indexed).
Co-authored with colleagues from Ahpra's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Strategy Unit and Research Evaluation and Insights Team, this conference article presents findings from an Indigenous-led webinar series identifying four key policy action areas as a roadmap for building a sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workforce grounded in self-determination.
Australia is Regulating Against Racism in Healthcare - The Registrar, Fall 2024 (Canadian national trade publication of the licensing and regulation sector).
This piece presented Australia's regulatory approach to eliminating racism in healthcare to an international audience of licensing and regulatory professionals, positioning the Ahpra model as a global reference point for enforceable cultural safety obligations.
