Australia’s Great Migrations – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury

HUMPBACK WHALES Queensland Each winter about 50,000 humpback whales make the journey north from Antarctica to breed in the tropics of Queensland and Western Australia, in...

“After the gold rush” – The Weekend Australian Magazine

Photo credit: Visit Victoria It’s the middle of a balmy night in Ballarat and I’m stirred from sleep by the most unlikely of sounds outside...

“The Snowies without snow” – The Australian newspaper T&I

You don’t have to be a thrill ­seeker, or even going particularly fast, to experience the exhilaration of a downhill mountain-bike run at Thredbo,...

Angels in disguise – feature story for Outback magazine

Photo credit: Ricky French There’s a granite rock high in the Upper Murray Valley, where Mick Sutcliffe comes to sit and gaze over his cattle...

Canberra’s best summer exhibitions – The Australian newspaper

Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 To Now (National Gallery of Australia) When the idea of a portrait wall consisting entirely of female Australian...

Hedonistic hiking on Mount Buffalo – The Australian newspaper T&I

Photo credit: Ricky French Stone steps lead up through marble-trunked snow gums and mountain pepper trees. Frogs croak and a thousand insects flitter above the...

Brumby 2020 round-up – The Weekend Australian ‘Inquirer’

Photo credit: Sean Davey If you could choose to be any pest animal living in an Australian ­alpine national park in 2020, you’d be pretty...

Wine’s triple-whammy year – the Weekend Australian Magazine

Photo credit: Ricky French The most incredible film ever shot in the Adelaide Hills could well be the seven second video Geoff Weaver recorded of...