Creating Waves: Critical takes on culture and politics

by Michael Burge

After several careers that went off the rails more times than he cares to acknowledge, author Michael Burge took to journalism at the age of forty and has felt it necessary to look over his shoulder ever since!
Taking jobs that nobody else wanted because the pay was crap and the prospects zero, Michael carved out a lifeboat in an industry that was starting to sink faster than the Titanic.
Creating Waves is a collection of his hardest-hitting and most heartfelt articles, published in Australian and overseas news sites, from Fairfax Media to NoFibs and Gay Star News.
From the most opinionated of commentaries about politics in the final years of Australia’s marriage equality debate; to his insightful film, book and pop-culture reviews, Michael’s journalism is always deeply personal.
With a touch that is at times funny and outraged, he explores sense of place in a country determined to reject equality, and where journos are considered worse than scum.

100 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2017

About the author

Michael is an author and journalist living at Deepwater in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. His debut rural noir novel Tank Water and its sequel Dirt Trap are released by MidnightSun Publishing.

He has written for The Guardian, Fairfax Media, and the Journal of Australian Studies, and he is a board member of BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival.