Emma Jane
Emma Jane (previous name Emma Tom) is an award-winning Sydney writer and broadcaster who has spent the past 23 years working in both the print and electronic media. Her column appears in The Australian every other Thursday and she freelances widely for magazines and newspapers both in Australia and overseas.
Emma is the author of six books including a novel, Deadset, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Asia and the South Pacific for Best First Novel in 1997, and most recently, Attack of the Fifty-Foot Hormones, which was published by HarperCollins in July 2009. Her short stories and essays have also been widely published. Emma works as a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales where she has recently completed her PhD.
Articles by Emma Jane
The internet: From revolt to revolting trolls
The internet is emerging as one of the big heroes of the pro-democracy, anti-despot movement in the Middle East. It’s…... Read more
Revealing a darker side of childhood
Childhood is supposedly a time of joy and carelessness; an endless frolic of dimpled cheeks, flaxen hair and rubious joy…... Read more
Happy 50th, Ken: May you freak us out for years to come
His muscles are permanently flexed, his fashions impeccably zhooshed and his fringe swing puts Justin Bieber’s to shame. He is…... Read more
Sometimes, abstinence is the biggest taboo
I have a terrible drug and alcohol problem. For decades now, it has resulted in shame, lies and the devastation…... Read more
Male nudity: Do women like to watch?
It’s common knowledge that men like to perve on women. But what about the reverse? Do chicks want man-p*rn to…... Read more
Meet my voice mutilating software
I’m writing this with voice recognition software. If that sounds scintillating and newfangled, you’ve obviously never used what should more…... Read more
Woah, man! Sweeping gender generalisations
Not so many fin-de-siècles ago, it was widely assumed that women’s place was in the home. Gallivanting about polling booths…... Read more
Conservapedia: a beacon of truthiness in dark times
The dodgiest place to go for information used to be Wikipedia. In 2006, its burlesque unreliability was parodied on the…... Read more
Absurd capitalist dystopias and trampolines
I’m devoting the post festive period to catching up on some light reading – specifically the fine print on the…... Read more
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