Joseph Connellan writes fiction shaped by thirty years inside Australia's housing and disability sector - sharp, funny, and unmistakably written by someone who was actually in the room.
Two novels and a full-cast radio adaptation, all carrying the same dry, observant eye Joseph brought to a career in housing and disability services.
The misadventures of government and charities collide in a story that finds the absurd, frustrating, and genuinely funny side of how the sector actually works.
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The story of a city dweller and the return to country - Joseph's first novel, available now in paperback and on Kindle.
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A free full-cast audio adaptation that's passed 300 downloads, with the script also available for sale.
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Joseph spent thirty years in leadership roles across Australia's housing and disability sector - the kind of vantage point that sees both the good intentions and the absurdities of how systems actually run. That's where the fiction comes from.
Now retired from paid consultancy, he writes novels and audio drama full-time, while continuing - on a pro bono basis - the housing analysis and not-for-profit governance writing that shaped his career.
He holds a Business Degree and a Master of Social Sciences, alongside the AICD Company Directors Course and the Nonprofit Strategy course at Harvard Business School - credentials that, these days, mostly just make the satire more accurate.
Joseph still produces independent housing analysis and writes on not-for-profit governance - pro bono, and mostly for the same sector his novels are about.
Joseph interviewed on the panel (begins 11 min 50 sec).
Watch on YouTube →Region-by-region SDA supply and demand data, built from NDIS quarterly figures.
A three-year comparison of SDA growth across Victoria, from 2023 to 2026.
A community workbook on disability housing supply and need in the Shire of Mount Alexander - SDA, SIL, SRS, social housing and the private rental market.
A short guide to NFP partnerships, mergers and acquisitions.
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