Feature Journalism
Feature Journalism
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...
‘Dying Shame’ – feature story for the Weekend Australian Magazine
Photo credit: Ricky French
There’s a photo 16-year-old Ivy McGufficke likes to look at every time she returns for the holidays to her family farm...
Parklife: celebrating Britain’s national treasures – The Australian newspaper
I’ve never before had such serendipity on an impulse buy. Browsing the shelves of London’s palatial Waterstones bookstore I pick up at random The...