This website brings together my work in publishing, journalism and community development over the past three decades.
As you’ll see, I have a broad range of interests, from resources, Indigenous rights and economic policy, and I’m always looking for a new area to dive into.
I’m working on a new book on defence and national security with Black Inc Books. It looks at what Australia can learn from its history in the face of its greatest security challenge since World War II.
ABC Radio National Interview with Fran Kelly —
Australia’s First Commando Campaign – Timor 1942
“Paul Cleary argues that the resources boom is being classically mismanaged, indicting both federal and state governments for failing to regulate and tax properly the multinational corporations flocking to Australia to extract nonrenewable resources…[a] fierce, concise book.”
—William Finnegan, The New Yorker
“The manifest failure to harness and/or constrain the mineral resources sector in the public interest has been well documented by Paul Cleary (2011, 2012).”
—Professor Evan Jones, Journal of Australian Political Economy, Issue 95, (Winter 2025): 237-255.
