Australia
More than a decade making news in radio, print and online. Former news editor. Based in Melbourne, Australia
EXCLUSIVE: It's 8.30am on the corner of Elizabeth and Latrobe streets and peak hour traffic is streaming off trains. A woman spots a camera filming her and immediately picks up her things and walks away.
EXCLUSIVE: AUSTRALIA’S most infamous con artist, Samantha Azzopardi, has well over 40 intricate aliases. Here, American tourist Emily Bamberger tells of her remarkable encounter with one of them for the first time.
EXCLUSIVE: AUSTRALIAN soldiers were treated like guinea pigs for drug trials, made to wear uniforms drenched in insecticides and forced to sleep in asbestos-ridden buildings. The culture still exists today.
IT'S after dark beside a bustling street when a hand reaches out for my sleeve. I've been walking aimlessly searching for food in one of Iran's regional centres, a city I've never been to, a place where an easy meal seems impossible to find.
EXCLUSIVE: THE tiny, neglected children of a battered mum and a twisted dad lived in a ramshackle home. Deprived of anything resembling normal, they scribbled on the walls and were beaten, burned and humiliated.
AS THE train winds towards the mountain town of Grindelwald, passengers crane their necks out the windows and upwards. Cow bells ring on the hills and the most imposing cliff face grows larger and larger.
EXCLUSIVE: WHEN I’m led through the doors of a fifth-floor office in a nondescript Sydney tower, a staff member announces for my benefit, “Content down”. Employees emerge from behind their desks with warm smiles.
EXCLUSIVE: HIGH on the hill overlooking the picturesque Parsley Bay in Sydney's north, 'Westy' and his new bride Beth stare out at the water from their rocky verandah. The couple's dog, Lily, never leaves their side.