• 2020 ‘The Russian Doll and Skripov the Spy; ASIO’s Legal Resident (1963) and Peter Butt’s Final Rendezvous (2020), Senses of Cinema, #94
  • 2019 ‘Zubrycki’s point: Amongst Equals, utilitarian film in the Australian labour movement’ Studies in Documentary Film 13:2 (pp 103-126)
  • 2018 ‘Indonesia calling and the voice of Independence’, Presentation Joris Ivens and Vietnam Hanoi, (Vietnam Film Institute)
  • 2018 FILM FOR A PURPOSE Presentation at Uses of Film Conference, Monash University November 2018
  • 2018 ASTRA Concerts ‘All this you saw’ John Hughes & Martin Friedel: film, choir and ensemble; live performance, North Melbourne, October 28, 2018
  • 2018 ‘From Cold War to Hot Planet, Australia’s CSIRO Film Unit’ Studies in Documentary Film 12:1 (2018)
  • 2018 ‘The Dialectical Image in Peter Kennedy’s ‘The Photographs’ Story’ in Craig Batty and Susan Kerrigan (editors) Screen Production Research: Creative Practice as a Mode of Inquiry, UK Palgrave
  • 2016 ‘New Life for Old Bones: Moving Image Collections at the National Archives of Australia’ in Studies in Documentary Film, 10:3, pp. 252-272 (October 2016)
  • 2013 The Archive Project (book)
  • 2008 My Favourite Austalian
  • 2008 Headlands
  • 2007 Moving History – 60 Years of Film Australia
  • 2006   ‘The Archive Project’ in ‘Contemporary Commonwealth’, National Gallery of Victoria with Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
  • 1999   ‘November Eleven’ single channel video in ‘What John Berger Saw’ Canberra School of Art Gallery and tour
  • 1990  (with Peter Kennedy) ‘Satellite Cultures’, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
  • 1988   ‘All That Is Solid’ ‘Experimenta’ Modern Image Makers Association, Melbourne
  • 1988-89 Peter Kennedy and John Hughes, ‘The Stars Disordered’ University Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane and tour
  • 1986  Peter Kennedy and John Hughes, ‘Istoria’ Centre for the Arts Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
  • 1984  (with Peter Kennedy) ‘Private Symbol/Social Metaphor’, 5th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW
  • 1983  (with Peter Kennedy) D’un Autre Continent: l’Australie. ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris France
  • 1982 (with Peter Kennedy) ‘Eureka! Artists from Australia’, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
  • 1981  Peter Kennedy and John Hughes, ‘November Eleven, installation no.1. Praxis Freemantle; installation nos. 1 & 2, Ewing Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
  • 1980  (with Peter Kennedy and Andrew Scollo) ‘Video Mayfair’, Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative, Sydney
  • 1979  (with Peter Kennedy and Andrew Scollo) ‘European Dialogue’, Third Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
  • 1977  ‘The Melbourne Filmmakers Co-operative’ in The Great Divide (ed. Charles Merewether & Ann Stephen) Melbourne, pp.66- 68 (see ‘stacks’)

Recent presentations

  • 2019 ‘After Indonesia Calling’ ASPERA Conference, RMIT University (December 2019)
  • 2019 ‘Film for a Purpose’, ASPERA Conference, RMIT University (December 2019)
  • 2018 ‘Joris Ivens in Australia: the voice of Independence’, Ivens Symposium, Hanoi (November 2018)
  • 2018 ASTRA Concerts ‘All this you saw’ John Hughes & Martin Friedel: film, choir and ensemble; live performance, North Melbourne, October 28, 2018
  •  2018 FILM FOR A PURPOSE Presentation at Uses of Film Conference, Monash University November 2018
  •  2017 November, Panel, ASPERA Screen Production Engagement and Impact Symposium, UTS Sydney
  •  2017 Melbourne Writer’s Festival September 2 Panel Guest (with Santilla Chinggaipe) ‘Film Essays’, NGV Australia Theatre
  •  2017 Melbourne Writer’s Festival – film excerpt presentation to introduce WrICE Panel.
  •  2017 July 15 – October 31 On Sacred Land in Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs Bangkok
  • 2017 May ONE WAY STREET screening and discussion, RMIT University’s Non-Fiction Lab with Docuverse
  • 2016 ALL THAT IS SOLID in Beyond the Tower (exhibition) University of Queensland Art Museum (July- November)
  • 2016 INDONESIA CALLING: JORIS IVENS IN AUSTRALIA presentation ‘Radical Action: Images of Revolution’ Series, RMIT Gallery (October 20, 2016)
  • 2016 February, ‘Vertical Cinema (TRESPASS 9:16) Docuverse Symposium, RMIT University, Melbourne
  • 2013 December: ‘Archive Fever’ Panel presentation, Screen Cultures Group, RMIT University Melbourne
  • 2013 November: ‘Directing the Feature’ Panel presentation, Australian Directors’ Guild Conference, Sydney
  • 2013 October: Melbourne Festival, Panel presentation: ‘The future in ruins: Wang Bing’s ‘new documentary’ Melbourne
  • 2013 July: MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival) Forum moderator ‘Resistance=Futile? The Activist Film in Australia’, Wheelers’ Centre, Melbourne
  • 2012 December:  ‘History-Politics=Nostalgia; 20 years of Australian Filmmakers’ Co-operatives’ Visual Evidence Conference, Canberra