About this site

Dominoes Under the Mulberry is a home for Daniel Hurst’s freelance journalism. It’s a place for thinking and it’s a place to “show his working” – the documents or rationale behind the headline – when he publishes new stories. There may be cringeworthy puns; there will not be any AI-generated writing.

Daniel is a former foreign affairs and defence correspondent for Guardian Australia and has also previously written for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times, and The Redland Times and Bayside Bulletin. He lives on the unceded lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples. Any views expressed here are entirely his own.

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What about the site name?

The name is a nod to the old ritual of his grandfather's family in La Línea in southern Spain decades ago. Abuelo and his family used to gather under a mulberry tree and play dominoes. Daniel plans to write about this in more detail down the track, but the name is meant to signify stepping back from the noise and thinking about both the big and small things in life.