 In 1999 he was asked to succeed Elizabeth Webby as editor of the journal "Southerly" and accepted on the understanding that the editorship be shared (from 2000 until 2007 with Noel Rowe; from 2007 until the present with Elizabeth McMahon).In the same year (1999) he became Director of the University of Sydney's Graduate Writing Program.In 2005, Brooks and Stasko having separated, he married the Slovenian-born scholar/activist Teya Pribac, whom he had first encountered when visiting Slovenia to launch an anthology of Australian poetry edited by his long-time friend Bert Pribac (no relation of Teya Pribac).