By Professor Anne Philomena O'Brien

Media

O'Brien A, 2026, Australia has had housing crises before: what can we learn from them?, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/21/australia-historical-housing-crises-government-intervention

O'Brien A, 2024, 'Revisiting the past for guidance and ideas on the current housing crisis', Afternoons with Kat Feeney, ABC Brisbane, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/brisbane-afternoons/afternoons/104259836

O'Brien A, 2024, Australia's Housing Crisis: blind spots and paradoxes in housing history, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv35Dy3C-us

O'Brien A, 2023, It’s time to break the impasse on rent controls, https://johnmenadue.com/its-time-to-break-the-impasse-on-rent-controls/

O'Brien A, 2022, Human rights and homelessness in the neoliberal age, https://faculti.net/embed-request

O'Brien A, 2020, Can the COVID-19 pandemic disrupt Australia’s Faustian pact with neoliberalism? Taking the longer view, https://www.abc.net.au/religion/can-coronavirus-disrupt-australian-pact-with-neoliberalism/12841034

O'Brien A, 2020, Race, poverty and disease: before the age of COVID 19, http://rightnow.org.au/essay/before-the-age-of-covid-19/

O'Brien A, 2020, Punitive welfare is never a good idea: it's time to leave it in the past, ABC Religion and Ethics, https://www.abc.net.au/religion/its-time-to-leave-punitive-welfare-in-the-past/12272176?utm_medium=social&utm_content=sf234259713&utm_campaign=abc_religion&utm_source=t.co&sf234259713=1

O'Brien A; Pawson H, 2020, 'We must act on homelessness before COVID-19 winter', https://croakey.org/page/2/

O'Brien A, 2019, 'Samia Khatun provides a different perspective on Australia's past', Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November, 2019., https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/samia-khatun-provides-a-different-perspective-on-australia-s-past-20191114-p53amu.html

O'Brien A, 2018, Listening to homeless women: history and the role of the media in the campaign for better policy, ABC Online, https://www.abc.net.au/religion/listening-to-homeless-women/10611340;

O'Brien A, 2018, Homelessness, Policy and the Media: How a Long Lens Helps, Australian Policy and History, 23 October 2018; http://aph.org.au/homelessness-policy-and-the-media-how-a-long-lens-helps/

O'Brien AP, 2018, 'No Foreign Country: Indigenous History is Essential to Counter Neoliberal Ideology' ABC Religion and Ethics, Opinion https://www.abc.net.au/religion/no-foreign-country-indigenous-history-is-essential-to-counter-ne/10214316

O'Brien AP; Holst H, 2017, How history can challenge the narrative of blame for homelessness, https://theconversation.com/how-history-can-challenge-the-narrative-of-blame-for-homelessness-80617

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