His stories have been published internationally in The Nation, Planet, Salon, Interview, Madison and Speak in the USA, The Wire, Melody Maker and Sight + Sound in the UK and Purple in France. At home his work has appeared in The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Rolling Stone, Vogue, Elle, GQ and the literary journal HEAT. He was awarded a 1992 Human Rights Media Award for his journalism and was the founding editor of the country’s leading pop culture magazine Australian Style (1992-97). 

He is also the author of Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip (Allen and Unwin Book Publishers; Sydney 2001), a loosely woven collection of travel pieces that incorporates elements of New Journalism, impressionistic glimpses, poetry, portrait pieces, even a dream, to paint the larger picture of a love story and a journey across the planet. 

Film director Wim Wenders acclaimed it as the first book of its kind to take the road genre “into the 21^st century”. Upon release in Australia it spent four weeks in the Sydney Morning Herald Non-Fiction Best Seller List. It was also shortlisted for the 2002 Qantas/City of Brisbane Asia-Pacific Travel Writing Award.