Liam Byrne

Liam Byrne is a researcher in Australian political culture. He has previously written for The Age, Overland, the Huffington Post, and the Daily Review. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2017.

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Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons

Liam Byrne

A journalist’s investigation of the high-stakes trade in extremely rare tropical fish causes broader meditations on the ways humans have commodified the natural world. It begins with a murder. One morning in May 2004 in Taiping, Malaysia, Chan Ah Chai finds the body of his son Chan Kok Kuan on the floor of his fish shop, […]

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Here Be Dragons

Here Be Dragons

Liam Byrne