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This site documents what happened to one family across Australia, Mexico and New Zealand — and what the institutions responsible for parts of that story have never acknowledged.

The writing falls into four areas. You can read them in any order.

If you want the evidence first

Unacknowledged Casualties — a research series on the Australian Defence Force antimalarial drug trials in East Timor and Bougainville (1998–2002), and the families no program has ever recognised.

Begin with The Quinoline Era, then About This Series, which sets out how evidence is used and where the record runs out.

If you want to understand the wider impact

Secondary Trauma in Small Communities — a ten-part series asking what a surrounding community may carry from a prolonged household crisis it did not cause.

If you want the lived account

Personal Narrative — first-person accounts of the marriage, the loss of my children, the years on the streets in Mexico, and the return home.

Begin with Just the Army Wife.

If you want to understand Mexico

Mexico: Lo de Marcos — how cartel influence, coercion and silence operate in a small beach town, documented from inside the community.

Begin with The Beach Town Where Silence Is the Cartel's Best Weapon.

Everything on the site, in one list: All Writing

Leer en español: /es/

If you need support: in New Zealand, 1737 (call or text) · Women's Refuge 0800 733 843 · Emergency 111. In Australia, Open Arms 1800 011 046 · 1800RESPECT 1800 737 732