Through this period Kalic also penned op-ed articles on arts policy and theatricality in politics for "The Australian Financial Review", "The Courier-Mail" (Brisbane), the Melbourne "Herald Sun" and the Canadian neo-situationist journal "Adbusters". One of these pieces, "The Death of Reality", argued that the entertainment industry was complicit in such events as the Port Arthur massacre in Australia and in the Dunblane massacre in Scotland.