The Visual Stories Team
The Visual Stories Team creates rich media, data-driven and interactive journalism for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times and WAtoday.
Enjoy the sparkle at five of Melbourne’s best Christmas light homes
From Coburg to Hampton Park to Bayswater, here are five of the best Christmas light shows to visit across the city.
- by Angus Delaney and The Visual Stories Team
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Where to find Sydney’s best Christmas lights
Street by street, suburb by suburb, Sydneysiders are going all out with Christmas lights. Use our map to find the closest displays near you and meet some of the city’s boldest decorators.
- by Penry Buckley and The Visual Stories Team
What’s inside teenagers’ wardrobes these days? It’s complicated
The clothes teenagers wear are an endless source of fascination. But while Gen Z is more likely than any generation before them to say they wear their values, their wardrobes often tell a different story.
- by Melissa Singer, Lauren Ironmonger and The Visual Stories Team
Watched, followed, threatened. Now an impostor is claiming to be me
Badiucao is an Australian, a Chinese dissident and an Age cartoonist. But that’s not stopping Beijing operatives from intimidating him in Melbourne.
- by Patrick O'Neil and The Visual Stories Team
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Investigations
Fake Albanese shows how Facebook is now a scamming honeypot
The social media giant is not only running obvious scam advertisements, it’s making money from them. Experts, victims and the government are demanding change.
- by Aisha Dow and The Visual Stories Team
Zombies, demons and ghouls: Melbourne’s best Halloween haunts revealed
From Pakenham to Maribyrnong, meet the Melburnians taking Halloween to frightening extremes.
- by Gemma Grant and The Visual Stories Team
Mystery endures as couple acquitted of missing teen’s murder
Robert and Anne Geeves were found not guilty of murdering Amber Haigh, 19, whose disappearance has haunted a rural town for more than two decades.
- by Michaela Whitbourn and The Visual Stories Team
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Investigations
Carbon ‘sharks’: How private companies are cashing in on ancient practices
First come the new utes, then come the questions. The carbon industry presents a generation-defining opportunity for Indigenous Australians, but there are concerns the rewards are not being fairly shared.
- by Charlotte Grieve, Simone Fox Koob and The Visual Stories Team
The Project meeting that had Brittany Higgins in tears and put Linda Reynolds in the spotlight
Recordings reveal how Brittany Higgins confided in TV journalist Lisa Wilkinson about her former boss, Linda Reynolds.
- by Michaela Whitbourn and The Visual Stories Team
It puts the ‘stronger’ in faster, higher, stronger. And the future is female
When it comes to the spirit of the Games, the shot put and discus thrower from Boring, Oregon (yes, really), puts the “stronger” into “faster, higher, stronger”. But how much stronger can humans get?
- by Billie Eder, Nathanael Scott and The Visual Stories Team
First came the four-minute mile. An Australian made the next biggest leap
A century of data shows how a deeper gene pool, better diets and fancy sneakers have made humans run faster. How much improvement is left?
- by Iain Payten, Nathanael Scott and The Visual Stories Team
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