Write for us

We take a small number of guest essays from licensed electricians, inspectors, trainers and contracting principals who have something specific to say. Pitch first. Do not send a finished 4,000-word advertorial and hope we will sand the logo off.

What we publish

• Original work, written in Australian English, at least 1,000 words.
• A clear job, defect, licence problem or business practice — not a general "why electricians are important" essay.
• Named standards and regulators where they matter: AS/NZS 3000, AS/NZS 3012, AS/NZS 3760, AS/NZS 4836, Energy Safe Victoria, the Electrical Safety Office, Fair Trading, Building and Energy, the Clean Energy Council.
• A fit with one of the topic hubs.

What we send back

• Rewritten vendor blogs, AI slurry, and content spun from another country's code.
• Pieces that tell readers to skip a licence, a test or a certificate of compliance.
• Attacks on named individuals. Firms and products may be criticised on the facts.
• Doorway pages whose only job is a backlink.

Links, money and rel="sponsored"

Editorial links to regulators, standards catalogues and industry associations are ordinary citations. If a guest piece, paid placement or advertorial contains a link that exists because money or a barter changed hands, that link is published with rel="sponsored". We do not sell unmarked links. We do not accept payment to alter a technical conclusion.

If you are buying a placement rather than writing a reported essay, say so in the pitch. The page will be labelled as sponsored and the outbound links will carry the sponsored relation. That is not optional.

How to pitch

Use the contact form with the subject line "Guest pitch: [working title]". Include:

1. Your licence class and the state or territory that issued it, if you hold one.
2. Two paragraphs on the argument, including the defect or decision you want to walk through.
3. The hub you think it belongs in.
4. Any conflicts: you sell the product, you train the course, you inspect the scheme.
5. Whether any link in the piece would need to be marked sponsored.

We edit for house style. We fact-check licence claims. We will not publish a piece that cannot be stood behind if an inspector reads it on a phone in a switchroom.

Before you write, read the editorial standards and a couple of pieces in the archive so you can hear the voice.