Warwick McFadyen
Warwick McFadyen is an award-winning journalist with more than 40 years’ experience in metropolitan media. He has held senior writing and editing positions with The Age, has won two Walkley Awards and four Quill Awards, and was highly commended in the Keith Dunstan Award for commentary in 2020’s Quills. He has published two books of poetry, On Reaching Land’s End and The Life and Times of Mr Agio and Other Poems.
Warwick's recent articles
19 August 2025
Bendigo writers' festival fiasco
If it weren’t so serious, it would be laughable. A code of conduct for a writers’ festival?
11 August 2025
Starvation is the constant companion of children in Gaza
Dear Child, I am the nothingness that will kill you. You do not know it, but you will feel the heaviness of your fate seep into your bones and flesh.
12 March 2025
Power and alienation
The hollow man thought he had power over everything, a snap of the fingers was the sound of a king.
26 July 2021
Lockdown protesters march across the flat earth
Once more unto the breach of commonsense and science, they come. The anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers. Blinded by ignorance and feverish self-righteousness, its a wonder they dont march off the edge of the flat earth.
23 February 2021
How ironic that the Department of Home Affairs sees itself as the guardian of Australian values
A parliamentary report urges the government to work on improving the school curriculum to develop in students understanding, empathy, and an openness to diversity. It seems the adults in the room also need to learn some lessons.
10 February 2021
Scott Morrison's danger zone
Sovereignty isnt going to be protected by everyone joining hands and singing Danger Zone in the face of an advancing enemy. But Morrison makes a mockery of reality.
3 February 2021
Eddie McGuire: words matter, because words and actions are indivisible
Which bit was the object of the apology? The misinterpretation, the original sins or the reaction?