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 am always looking for a new area to dive into.
I’m currently writing an economic history with Black Inc. Books which has huge implications for some of the big issues we face today.
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 Finnigan, 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.
“Paul Cleary’s recently published book Title Fight shows that corporations that have not struck agreements with native title holders are also in the firing line for significant compensation payouts.”
— Ben Wyatt, Yamatji man and former WA Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
“In this crisp economic history stretching back more than four decades, journalist Paul Cleary charts how this middle-income Scandinavian country ensured that 90% of the cash flow from vast oil discoveries accrued to its government.”