After Propinquity won the Adelaide Festival's Biennial Award for Literature, John Macgregor wrote the story development for the Australian movie 'Shine'; worked as a political aide to Senator Janine Haines, federal leader of the Australian Democrats; was deported from East Timor while reporting on human rights abuses by the Indonesians; interviewed three prime ministers for the capital city dailies; won Australia's investigative journalism award for exposing an FBI scandal; and reported from Burma on slave labour under the generals for 'The New York Times'. He recently completed 'The Mechanics of Changing the World: political architecture to roll back state & corporate power' - to be published in 2023.