Feature Journalism

Feature Journalism

‘All aboard!’ – travel story for Outback magazine

Travel story aboard Yukon Tours for Outback magazine's travel issue, 2020 Words and pictures Ricky French Buy the magazine here

‘The little possum bringing an industry to its knees’ – cover story for the...

Photo credit: Ricky French On April 3, 1961, a 22-year-old junior at the fossils department of Melbourne Museum was walking at night in the montane...

Bettongs bounce back – Outback magazine, Aug/Sep 2020

Photo credit: Jannico Kelk It’s early evening in the remote, arid inland of South Australia, and Dr Katherine Moseby has just opened a fresh jar...

“The Chain Gang” – The Weekend Australian Magazine

Photo credit: Matthew Abbott End of the road. From his dairy farm in New Zealand’s North Island town of Te Kuiti, this is as far...

Horse cull gets green light – The Weekend Australian newspaper

Trapping and removal of feral horses within the Kosciuszko National Park can proceed after a legal challenge was thrown out by the NSW Land...

Spies like us in Berlin – The Australian newspaper T&I

Of all the standard spy movie cliches (the briefcase swap, peepholes cut into the newspaper, the villain’s elaborate death machine), my favourite is the...

“After catastrophe, opportunity knocks” – Weekend Australian Magazine

One of the most shocking photoshoots in Australia’s history occurred in 1930s Melbourne in squalid neighbourhoods where multi-million-dollar houses now stand. A Methodist accountant,...

“Different Slopes” – The Weekend Australian T&I

When you’re standing at the top of your favourite ski run this season, looking out over the Australian Alps, ready to carve fresh tracks...

“This virus doesn’t want to kill us” – Weekend Australian Magazine

This virus doesn't want to kill us. It has no brain, no will. It just wants to grow and reproduce, to obey the laws...

“Horse heritage claims rejected” – The Australian newspaper

Hundreds of feral horses in Victoria’s High Country are set to be shot after the Federal Court ­rejected claims of their heritage value. Professional shooters...