“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...
Thwarted travel in a time of Covid – The Australian newspaper T&I
Travel writers like to think they have a knack for getting themselves in the right place at the right time. Like any reporting, you...