Feature Journalism

Feature Journalism

2020 Tramping Horoscopes – Wilderness Magazine

What does your tramping year have in store for you? Ricky French consulted the stars to find out... Aries You’re one of life’s great plodders. You take perverse...

After the Flames – The Weekend Australian ‘Review’

Photo credit: Remi Chauvin It was right on dusk, in the middle of winter this year, when three cavers emerged from a day of exploring...

Road trip guide to Tasmania’s north-west – Broadsheet

Photo credit: Ricky French The wild north-west of Tasmania is one of Australia’s great road-trip routes. Home to coastal towns, sailing clubs and sandy beaches,...

Wildlife Champion – feature story for Outback magazine

James Fitzgerald has established a wildlife refuge on the Monaro that’s helping to boost the local koala population. Photo credit: Ricky French James Fitzgerald stands among...

Emirates boss unhappy at climate change response – The Australian newspaper

Crowds at the Dubai Airshow this week were shocked to see something quite remarkable fall from the sky: rain. It was a fitting climatic anomaly...

Sydney air traffic control moving to a digital age – The Australian newspaper

Story by Ricky French and Robyn Ironside A Canadian company has won the tender to supply Sydney Airport with a digital control tower prototype so...

Nature rules at Rydal Mount – The Australian newspaper T&I

A tour of William Wordsworth’s Lake District home reveals a lot about the romantic poet. You can tell a lot about someone by spending time...

Meeting the silverbacks – Travel feature for Broadsheet

Photo credit: Jiwon Kim No one could argue our small G Adventures tour group has been starved of wildlife. So far on my cultural and...

Kigali Genocide Memorial – travel feature for Broadsheet

Photo credit: Jiwon Kim How strange and sad to be standing above the remains of 250,000 people. I’m at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, the...

Snow gums dieback threatens to leave alpine wasteland – The Australian newspaper

Published in The Australian Oct 5 2019 As a year 11 student in 1989 Matthew Brookhouse was on an Outward Bound course that nearly went...