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Jared Lynch
Jared LynchTechnology Editor

Jared Lynch is The Australian’s Technology Editor, with a career spanning two decades. Jared is based in Melbourne and has extensive experience in markets, start-ups, media and corporate affairs. His work has gained recognition as a finalist in the Walkley and Quill awards. Previously, he worked at The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Rodney DaltonApp Editor
Caroline Overington
Caroline OveringtonLiterary Editor

Caroline Overington has twice won Australia’s most prestigious award for journalism, the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism; she has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch award for Journalistic Excellence; and the richest prize for business writing, the Blake Dawson Prize. She writes thrillers for HarperCollins, and she’s the author of Last Woman Hanged, which won the Davitt Award for True Crime Writing.

Dennis Shanahan
Dennis ShanahanNational Editor

Dennis Shanahan has been The Australian’s Canberra Bureau Chief, then Political Editor and now National Editor based in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1989 covering every Budget, election and prime minister since then. He has been in journalism since 1971 and has a master’s Degree in Journalism from Columbia University, New York.

Geoff Chambers
Geoff ChambersChief Political Correspondent

Geoff Chambers is The Australian’s Chief Political Correspondent. He was previously The Australian’s Canberra Bureau Chief and Queensland Bureau Chief. Before joining the national broadsheet he was News Editor at The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs and Head of News at the Gold Coast Bulletin. As a senior journalist and political reporter, he has covered budgets and elections across the nation and worked in the Queensland, NSW and Canberra press galleries. He has covered major international news stories for News Corp, including earthquakes, people smuggling, and hostage situations, and has written extensively on Islamic extremism, migration, Indo-Pacific and China relations, resources and trade.

Joe Kelly
Joe KellyNational Affairs editor

Joe Kelly is the National Affairs Editor. He joined The Australian in 2008 and since 2010 has worked in the parliamentary press gallery, most recently as Canberra Bureau chief.

Eric Johnston
Eric JohnstonAssociate Editor

Eric Johnston is an associate editor of The Australian. He has more than 25 years experience as a finance journalist, including a former business editor of The Australian. He has been business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and financial services editor with The Australian Financial Review. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

Robert Gottliebsen
Robert GottliebsenBusiness Columnist

Robert Gottliebsen has spent more than 50 years writing and commentating about business and investment in Australia. He has won the Walkley award and Australian Journalist of the Year award. He has a place in the Australian Media Hall of Fame and in 2018 was awarded a Lifetime achievement award by the Melbourne Press Club. He received an Order of Australia Medal in 2018 for services to journalism and educational governance. He is a regular commentator for The Australian.

James Kirby
James KirbyWealth Editor

James Kirby, The Australian’s Wealth Editor, is one of Australia’s most experienced financial journalists. He is a former managing editor and co-founder of Business Spectator and Eureka Report and has previously worked at the Australian Financial Review and the South China Morning Post. He is a regular commentator on radio and television, he is the author of several business biographies and has served on the Walkley Awards Advisory Board. James hosts The Australian’s Money Puzzle podcast.

Tom Dusevic
Tom DusevicPolicy Editor

Tom Dusevic writes commentary and analysis on economic policy, social issues and new ideas to deal with the nation’s most pressing challenges. He has been The Australian’s national chief reporter, chief leader writer, editorial page editor, opinion editor, economics writer and first social affairs correspondent. Dusevic won a Walkley Award for commentary and the Citi Journalism Award for Excellence. He is the author of the memoir Whole Wild World and holds degrees in Arts and Economics from the University of Sydney.

Eli Greenblat
Eli GreenblatSenior Business Reporter

Eli Greenblat has written for The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review covering a range of sectors across the economy and stockmarket. He has covered corporate rounds such as telecommunications, health, biotechnology, financial services, and property. He is currently The Australian’s senior business reporter writing on retail and beverages.

Brighette Ryan
Brighette RyanWeekend Digital Editor

Brighette Ryan is The Australian’s digital night editor. She was previously Social Media Editor, leading the paper’s social media strategy across platforms including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Brighette has also worked as a producer for 2SM and as a social media producer for the Nine Network.

Adrian McMurray
Adrian McMurrayAfternoon Editor

Adrian McMurray is a Sydney-based digital journalist and producer at The Australian. He has previously worked as a presenter and producer at NRL.com. Adrian completed a Bachelor of Media (Honours) at Macquarie University.

Scott HenryMorning Editor
Anne Barrowclough
Anne BarrowcloughAM World Editor

Anne Barrowclough is a senior digital journalist for The Australian. She spent most of her career as a journalist on Fleet St, primarily for the London Times, where she was a feature writer, Features Editor and News Editor. Before joining the Australian, she was South-East Asia editor for The Times, covering major events in the region including both natural and political tsunamis and earthquakes.

Sam DusevicNight Production Editor
Michael Bilbe-TaylorDeputy Picture Editor
Elyse Popplewell
Elyse PopplewellAudience growth editor

Elyse Popplewell is the audience growth editor at The Australian. In 2023, Elyse was named as one of the 30 under 30 industry rising stars by the International News Media Association. Previously, Elyse was the content strategy director and the social media editor, as well as the editor of theoz.com.au.

Patrick Commins
Patrick ComminsEconomics Correspondent

Patrick Commins is The Australian’s economics correspondent, based in Canberra. Before joining the newspaper he worked for more than a decade at The Australian Financial Review, where he was a columnist and senior writer. Patrick was previously a research analyst at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority.

Sarah Ison
Sarah IsonPolitical Reporter

Sarah Ison is a political reporter in The Australian’s Canberra press gallery bureau, where she covers a range of rounds from higher education to social affairs. Sarah was a federal political reporter with The West Australian’s Canberra team between 2019 and 2021, before which she worked in the masthead’s Perth newsroom. Sarah made her start in regional journalism at the Busselton-Dunsborough Times in 2017.

Rhiannon Down

Rhiannon Down is a political reporter in The Australian’s Canberra bureau. She began her career at the paper in the Sydney bureau, where she covered mostly courts and crime, after joining the newspaper as a cadet.

Ellie Dudley
Ellie DudleyLegal Affairs Correspondent

Ellie Dudley is the legal affairs correspondent at The Australian covering courts, crime, and changes to the legal industry. She was previously a reporter on the NSW desk and, before that, one of the newspaper’s cadets.

Joanna Panagopoulos

Joanna started her career as a cadet at News Corp’s local newspaper network, reporting mostly on crime and courts across Sydney’s suburbs. She then worked as a court reporter for the News Wire before joining The Australian’s youth-focused publication The Oz.

Bianca Farmakis
Bianca FarmakisVideo Editor

A videographer and writer focusing on visual storytelling. Before coming to The Australian, she worked across News Corp’s Prestige and Metro mastheads, Nine and Agence-France Presse.

Idit NilssonGraphic Design Editor
Emilia TortorellaDigital Design Director
Geordie Gray
Geordie GrayEntertainment reporter

Geordie Gray is an entertainment reporter based in Sydney. She writes about film, television, music and pop culture. Previously, she was News Editor at The Brag Media and wrote features for Rolling Stone. She did not go to university.

Emmaline Stigwood
Emmaline StigwoodDigital Editor

Emmaline Stigwood is the Digital Editor of The Australian’s Business Network which brings together the best business journalism from across the country for News Corp’s online mastheads including The Australian Business Review, The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, The Courier-Mail and others.

Joseph Lam
Joseph LamReporter

Joseph Lam is a technology and property reporter at The Australian. He joined the national daily in 2019 after he cut his teeth as a freelancer across publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Thailand.

Joseph Carbone
Joseph CarboneDigital Producer – Business

Joseph Carbone is a producer for The Australian Business Network after serving as Acting Digital Editor for The Weekly Times, Australia’s foremost rural news source.

Lilly Vitorovich
Lilly VitorovichBusiness Homepage Editor

Lilly Vitorovich is a journalist at The Australian, producing and editing business stories. Lilly joined The Australian in 2018 as media writer, covering corporate and industry news. She started her career in Sydney, before heading to London to work for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. She has been a journalist since 1999, covering a broad range of topics, including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, industry trends and leaders.

Valerina Changarathil
Valerina ChangarathilBusiness reporter

Valerina Changarathil reports on a wide range of news and issues relating to businesses in South Australia across start-ups, technology developers, biotechs, mining and energy companies, agriculture and food, and tourism.

Ross Bilton
Ross BiltonThe Weekend Australian Magazine
Jill Rowbotham
Jill RowbothamLegal Affairs Correspondent

Jill Rowbotham is an experienced journalist who has been a foreign correspondent as well as bureau chief in Perth and Sydney, opinion and media editor, deputy editor of The Weekend Australian Magazine and higher education writer.

Clarissa CavalheiroPicture Editor
Stephen Samuelson
Stephen SamuelsonSports Editor

Stephen Samuelson, sports editor and The Weekend Australian’s resident sport quizmaster, has been on the masthead since 2018. Stephen was previously digital sports editor and deputy sports editor at The Sydney Morning Herald. He has worked with American broadcaster NBC at nine Olympic Games and was the prime-time scriptwriter for Channel 7’s coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Claire Harvey
Claire HarveyEditorial Director

Claire Harvey started her journalism career as a copygirl in The Australian’s Canberra bureau in 1994 and has worked as a reporter, foreign correspondent, deputy editor and columnist at The Australian, The Sunday Telegraph and The New Zealand Herald.

Cameron Stewart
Cameron StewartChief International Correspondent

Cameron Stewart is the Chief International Correspondent at The Australian, combining investigative reporting on foreign affairs, defence and national security with feature writing for the Weekend Australian Magazine. He was previously the paper’s Washington Correspondent covering North America from 2017 until early 2021. He was also the New York correspondent during the late 1990s. Cameron is a former winner of the Graham Perkin Award for Australian Journalist of the Year.

Simon Benson
Simon BensonPolitical Editor

Award-winning journalist Simon Benson is The Australian’s Political Editor. He was previously National Affairs Editor, the Daily Telegraph’s NSW political editor, and also president of the NSW Parliamentary Press Gallery. He grew up in Melbourne and studied philosophy before completing a postgraduate degree in journalism.

Ben Packham
Ben PackhamForeign Affairs and Defence Correspondent

Ben Packham is The Australian’s foreign affairs and defence correspondent. To contact him securely use the Signal App. See his Twitter bio for details.

Rosie Lewis
Rosie LewisPolitical Correspondent

Rosie Lewis is The Australian’s Political Correspondent. She made her mark in Canberra after breaking story after story about the political rollercoaster unleashed by the Senate crossbench of the 44th parliament. Her national reporting includes exclusives on the dual citizenship fiasco, women in parliament, the COVID-19 pandemic, voice referendum and climate wars. Lewis has covered policy in-depth across most portfolios and has a particular focus on climate and energy.

Yoni Bashan
Yoni BashanMargin Call Editor

Yoni Bashan is the editor of the agenda-setting column Margin Call. He began his career at The Sunday Telegraph and has won multiple awards for crime writing and specialist investigations. In 2014 he was seconded on a year-long exchange to The Wall Street Journal. His non-fiction book The Squad was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award. He was previously The Australian’s NSW political correspondent.

Christine Lacy
Christine LacyMargin Call Editor
James Madden
James MaddenMedia Editor

James Madden has worked for The Australian for over 20 years. As a reporter, he covered courts, crime and politics in Sydney and Melbourne. James was previously Sydney chief of staff, deputy national chief of staff and national chief of staff, and was appointed media editor in 2021.

Chris Mitchell

Chris Mitchell began his career in late 1973 in Brisbane on the afternoon daily, The Telegraph. He worked on the Townsville Daily Bulletin, the Daily Telegraph Sydney and the Australian Financial Review before joining The Australian in 1984. He was appointed editor of The Australian in 1992 and editor in chief of Queensland Newspapers in 1995. He returned to Sydney as editor in chief of The Australian in 2002 and held that position until his retirement in December 2015.

Janet Albrechtsen

Janet Albrechtsen is an opinion columnist with The Australian. She has worked as a solicitor in commercial law, and attained a Doctorate of Juridical Studies from the University of Sydney. She has written for numerous other publications including the Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Sunday Age, and The Wall Street Journal.

John Stensholt
John StensholtThe Richest 250 Editor

John Stensholt joined The Australian in July 2018. He writes about Australia’s most successful and wealthy entrepreneurs, and the business of sport.Previously John worked at The Australian Financial Review and BRW, editing the BRW Rich List. He has won Citi Journalism and Australian Sports Commission awards for his corporate and sports business coverage. He won the Keith McDonald Award for Business Journalist of the Year in the 2020 News Awards.

Nick Cater
Nick CaterColumnist

Nick Cater is senior fellow of the Menzies Research Centre and a columnist with The Australian. He is a former editor of The Weekend Australian and a former deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph. He is author of The Lucky Culture published by Harper Collins.

Chris Kenny
Chris KennyAssociate Editor (National Affairs)

Commentator, author and former political adviser, Chris Kenny hosts The Kenny Report, Monday to Thursday at 5.00pm on Sky News Australia. He takes an unashamedly rationalist approach to national affairs.

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