Journalist, former editor of The Age.
Melbourne, Australia
Joined February 2011
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"It’s about individuals upgrading their homes, community sea walls, banning building on flood plains, government “buybacks” and “managed retreat” from areas impossible to defend, and “greening” cities to cool them down. It’s about where and how we live."
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The Paris Agreement aimed to treat adaptation with the same urgency as reducing fossil fuel emissions. ... It’s about nuts-and-bolts policy, delivered at scale, to prepare for, rather than react to, the impacts of global warming."
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Climate crisis: The everyday Aussies who can’t afford another flood, drought or fire disaster. A must read. theage.com.au/environment/cl…
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Fire, flood and wishful thinking: Why we’re not ready for Victoria’s #climate future. Another must read in the climate series on adaptation theage.com.au/national/victo…
Fight MND: When my husband David was dying, Neil Daniher offered us more than just hope theage.com.au/lifestyle/heal…
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The 31st Gold Quill Award goes to Robyn Riley at @TheHeraldSun for her groundbreaking expose of the Monash IVF scandal where a woman gave birth to another couple’s baby unknowingly. Sponsored by the University of Melbourne. #MPCQuills
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Heather Ewart is this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Recounting how she began her career as Wedding Reporter in 1975 for Leader newspapers: “cos they couldn’t think of anything else do with a young woman who wanted to be a journalist.”
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"A free press is not free if it can only report what powerful institutions or individuals choose to reveal. When misconduct goes undetected, it spreads." | Adele Ferguson satpa.pe/hoh0Hku
Gay Alcorn retweeted
I wrote about One Nation's surge for UnHerd. I used the politics of satire as a lens: these days Pauline Hanson is the one taking the piss. That tells us something.
unherd.com/2026/03/australia…
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Robyn Riley’s exclusive story in @TheHeraldSun on an IVF mixup which sparked an uncovering of the sector has won the #MPCQuills for News Report in Writing. “This was reporting of the highest public interest, sensitively told and obtained through excellent journalism.”
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.@ABCNews' Adele Ferguson has won the milestone 50th Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year award for her relentless and impactful reporting on Australia's broken childcare system. #MPCQuills
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Melissa Fyfe at Good Weekend has won the Feature Writing award at the #MPCQuills for Wedlocked, covering the experiences of those subjected to forced marriage in Australia. “In a fragmented media landscape, it is a powerful reminder of the value of long-form writing"
Gay Alcorn retweeted
We're saddened to hear that Eric Dane has died.
Eric shared his diagnosis of motor neurone disease with the world a year ago this month. He helped raise vital awareness of MND.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane dies at 53 after ALS diagnosis bbc.in/4s2Eb3j
Gay Alcorn retweeted
Congrats to Lenore for her tenure. A mighty effort. Guardian Australia editor: Lenore Taylor resigns after a decade in the role theage.com.au/business/compa…
Fabulous. Matt is a star.
Matt Golding wins 2025 Political Cartoonist of the Year theage.com.au/culture/art-an…
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Helen Garner, Trent Dalton lead outcry against proposed State Library cuts theage.com.au/culture/books/…
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There’s some absolutely top Ashes punditry here
Well this was fun. A chat to @TheRestHistory @holland_tom about the #Ashes, Bazball and his Zak Crawley obsession theage.com.au/sport/cricket/…
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The most wonderful collection of articles by philosophers on philosophers - learned so much 👇
How a dozen different, fascinating philosophers shaped our ideas about right and wrong. Good and Evil: 12 Philosophers on How to Live (TLS Books), edited by Andrew Irwin and introduced by @RoryStewartUK, is on sale now: harpercollins.co.uk/products…
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Wonderful- and entirely characteristic- Tom Stoppard story.This is integrity. This is how we writers must roll if our work is to mean anything at all:
"Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood blockbuster, and you turn me down to write a play for BBC TV?"
"No," Tom said, "BBC Radio."
thefp.com/p/david-mamet-tom-…
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Al Muderis spent $19k on crisis PR in 9 days, including drops to Sophie Ellsworth, calls to Amanda Meade, ABC & SBS and a 4-hour Sunday “dinner and long conversation” debating strategy with Sue Chrysanthou SC and spinners at Al Muderis’s apartment.
theage.com.au/national/al-mu…
