Bylines

Peter Greste is former journalist, academic and director of the Alliance for Media Freedom. Peter is best known for the 400 days he spent in an Egyptian prison on made-up terrorism charges along with several of his Al Jazeera colleagues. He was released in 2015 and meant to serve time in Australia, which the Australian government never enforced. And yet Peter is so much more than just this highly...

Tim Elliott is a senior writer with Good Weekend, author and podcast host. Tim is one of Australia’s best feature writers and if you haven’t read his pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Saturday magazine, Good Weekend, you’re really missing out. Tim started his career writing for Sydney surf mags before heading to Bolivia to write for The Bolivian Times in his early twenties. He’s loved writing...

Michael West is an independent journalist and owner of Michael West Media. Since 2016, Michael has achieved the extraordinary feat of running his own independent Australian media company, Michael West Media. The decision to start his own company and take on the highly concentrated Australia media market dominated by big players came after he was made redundant by then-Fairfax’s Sydney Morning Hera...

Liz Hayes is a veteran journalist with 60 Minutes , author, and the host of Under Investigation With Liz Hayes. Liz Hayes is a household name in Australia and an icon of Australian news television. She’s appeared on our TV screens for over forty years making her a true veteran of the industry in a career that has tracked the rise of TV current affairs journalism in Australia. And yet Liz came from...

Charles Miranda is a senior correspondent for NewsCorp Australia and a non-fiction author. Charles has collected some incredible stories over his career as - to put it in his words - a “death and mayhem correspondent” for NewsCorp Australia. He was one of the first people to stumble upon the cockpit wreckage of MH-17 in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 and the actions he took that day before Russian rebels...

Kerry Lonergan OAM is a former journalist, podcast host, and founding father of ABC’s Landline current affairs program. Kerry is a legend of Australian journalism although you’d never hear that from him. His career started in the 1960s as a freelance writer and he later moved to Brisbane with Channel Nine covering state politics, including the colourful and scandal-plagued era of the Joh Bjelke-Pe...

Matt Wordsworth is a director at Blue Hill PR and a former ABC news journalist and presenter. Matt is a familiar face to many Queenslanders as the former presenter for the ABC’s 7pm news bulletin, and if you’re a little older than me you’ve also probably seen him hosting various ABC current affairs programs including 7.30, Lateline and Stateline. Matt spent just over two decades at the national br...

Anne Kruger is a university academic, news verification expert, journalist, and former CNN news anchor. I met Anne earlier this year at the University of Queensland where she teaches journalism and strategic communications. Anne is an experienced journalist with a storied career at CNN, Bloomberg and ABC News Australia, and she is also a leading expert in news verification tackling the wicked prob...

Paula Doneman is an experienced crime and investigative journalist, author, and true crime podcaster. Paula’s been in the news industry for over three decades now reporting mostly on crime in Queensland, which makes her one of the state’s most experienced and still-active journalists. She made a name for herself while still a student at the University of Queensland, breaking major stories on the s...

Chris Allen is a journalist and veteran TV reporter for A Current Affair . If you’ve watched Australian television over the last thirty years you’ve probably seen or heard Chris on A Current Affair , also known as ACA, chasing down dodgy scammers, confronting neighbours from hell, or even exposing a grandma selling drugs from her front porch in her dressing gown and slippers. Chris is one of the g...

Michael McKenna is the Queensland editor for The Australian newspaper. Michael is a well-known character in Australian journalism for his large personality and his abilities as a journalist and editor. He’s had a long career covering everything from courts and celebrities in England and America to federal and state politics in Australia. As Queensland editor for The Australian he’s responsible for...

Richard Murray is a former journalist and war correspondent, and the current head of journalism at the University of Queensland. Richard has a fascinating story to tell and has lived a massive life, much of it spent as a journalist overseas working in places that typically don’t get much of our attention. He’s worked in India, Nepal, North and South Korea, New Zealand, and Australia, covered inter...

Andrew McMillen is the national music writer for The Australian newspaper and the author of Talking Smack: Honest Conversations about Drugs. Andrew has been a particular inspiration for me over the last few years. I met him while attending Christmas drinks for The Australian’s Brisbane bureau in 2021, back when I worked as an intern on another podcast, Shandee’s Story. I remember being very, very...

Caroline Graham is a university lecturer, Walkley-award winning investigative journalist, author, and true-crime podcaster. Caroline taught me journalism at the University of Queensland a few years back; she teaches subjects in investigative, data, and broadcast journalism. Caroline, or ‘Caro’ as her students affectionately call her, is a popular lecturer for good reason: her courses are practical...

Kate Kyriacou is the crime and courts editor for The Courier-Mail and the author of The Sting: The Undercover Operation That Caught Daniel Morcombe’s Killer . I met Kate last year at a journalism bootcamp hosted for first-year journalism students at the University of Queensland. I was familiar with her work before then - her book on the police covert operation that caught Daniel Morcombe’s killer,...

Alison Sandy is the Freedom of Information editor for the Seven Network and the executive producer for The Lady Vanishes and Shot in the Dark true crime podcasts. I first heard of Alison when she spoke via Zoom at the University of Queensland in 2021 as part of a Walkley Masterclass series on journalism. Her presentation was about Freedom of Information, the laws that enable citizens and journalis...