Breakfast with Papers

SAT 1 MAR

Tom Baldwin
Tom has spent most of his life writing about or working in politics from Westminster to Washington. He began his career on local newspapers before having senior roles for the Sunday Telegraph and The Times. He was the Labour Party's communications director under Ed Miliband and later helped run a mass campaign for a second referendum on Europe. He lives in London with his family.

Amy Remeikis
Amy Remeikis writes, talks and analyses Australian politics across Australia's media as the political analyst at the Australia Institute. Most recently at the Guardian,  Amy is an author and political blogger and appears regularly on ABC programs and Network Ten's The Project 

Lauren Novak
Lauren Novak is the education and social policy editor for The Advertiser and Sunday Mail. She has specialised in coverage of domestic violence and child protection for more than 10 years and has won national and state awards for this work. Lauren is an inaugural Our Watch Walkley Foundation Fellow and is preparing to release her first book (on the almost universal experience of anger in motherhood) in early 2026. 

 

SUN 2 MAR

Alan Rusbridger
Alan Rusbridger is Editor of Prospect Magazine. He was, for 20 years, Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian, where he was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service Journalism, and for six years Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. He chairs the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and sits on Meta’s Oversight Board.

Alan was born in Zambia, educated at Cambridge and lives in London. He is the co-author of the BBC drama, Fields of Gold and is a keen amateur musician and the author of Play it Again. His memoir of journalism and its future, Breaking News, was published in 2018. His latest book, News and How to Use it, was published in 2020.

Dr Emma Shortis
Emma is Director of the Australia Institute’s International & Security Affairs Program. She's the host of the "After America" podcast, and the author of a forthcoming essay of the same name - the first in The Australia Institute's Vantage Points series. Her first book, Our Exceptional Friend: Australia’s Fatal Alliance with the United States, was published by Hardie Grant in 2021. 

Andrew Hough
Andrew Hough is The Advertiser’s investigations editor, who has reported on all areas across general news, crime, politics, business and sport. He spent three years overseeing the paper’s Covid-19 coverage. He joined The Advertiser as a cadet in 2003 before moving to Britain in 2006. He worked on Fleet St including at the London Evening Standard, Reuters and The Daily Telegraph as a newsdesk executive and general news reporter. When he returned in 2013 he became Tory Shepherd’s loud pod buddy.

 

MON 3 MAR

Nick Bryant
During a career spanning almost thirty years, Nick came to be regarded as one of the BBC’s finest foreign correspondents and was described as ‘the new Alistair Cooke’. He has been posted in Washington, South Asia, Australia and, most recently, New York, where he covered the Trump years. His writing has appeared in The Economist, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Monthly and The New Statesman. He is now the host of Saturday Extra on ABC. Nick studied history at Cambridge and has a doctorate in American politics from Oxford. He now lives in Sydney with his wife and children. His latest book is The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict with Itself.

Professor Clare Wright OAM
Clare is an historian, author, television and radio broadcaster, podcaster and social commentator. She is Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University and Chair of the National Museum of Australia Council. Clare was the winner of the 2014 Stella Prize.  Her latest book is Ṉäku Dhäruk The Bark Petitions.

Tim Williams
Tim is deputy editor for The Advertiser. He was previously head of news after a long stint as education reporter.

 

TUE 4 MAR

Annabelle Quince
Annabelle Quince’s career began in the legal profession but quickly pivoted to film, television and then to radio. While completed an Art and law degree majoring in history she worked as a researcher on a series of documentary films.

In 1989 she moved to the UK and worked first for BBC TV and Channel 4 then as a freelancer radio producer, making feature length documentaries for ABC Radio National, BBC Radio 4 and CBC Radio.

In 1995 Annabelle started at Late Night Live on RN, first as a producer and later as executive producer. In 2005 she created Radio Nationals first history/current affairs program Rear Vision and has been its presenter/producer for the last 20 years.

Eric Beecher
Eric has had a long career in journalism, media and publishing. He was appointed as the youngest-ever editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and later as editor-in-chief of the Melbourne Herald. He then became an independent media owner, launching several media and publishing start-up companies. He is currently chair and the largest shareholder in Private Media, owner of several Australian news websites, including Crikey.

Paul Starick
Paul is The Advertiser's Editor at Large. During more than 30 years in journalism, his roles have included Advertiser digital editor, deputy editor and chief political reporter. He's worked in Adelaide, Canberra and New York. Paul enjoys football (Adelaide Crows and Norwood member), cricket, reading, going to the gym and, lately, helping his daughter learn to drive.

 

WED 5 MAR

Wesley Lowery
Wesley is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and one of the nation's leading reporters on issues of race and justice. He has chronicled the early years of the Black Lives Matter movement, writing a bestselling book and launching Fatal Force -- a real-time national database of people shot and killed by the police. That database — which remains the most reliable public data on police shootings — won the Pulitzer Prize, the George Polk Award, and the Peabody Award and was named one of the decade’s top 10 works of journalism.

In the years that followed he led and contributed to investigative projects that examined unsolved homicides in major American cities (Pulitzer Prize finalist), what happens to fired police officers, so-called repeat offender criminal defendants, fentanyl overdoses in major cities (in 2017 and 2022), the failures to catch the deadliest serial killer in American history, and what happens to people who are shot by the police and survive. He's latest book, American Whitelash, published in June 2023, chronicles the rise in white supremacist violence in the years since Barack Obama's election.

Sian Cain
Sian is a journalist and editor who has worked for The Guardian in London and Melbourne for the last decade. With a focus on arts, culture and entertainment, Sian covers a wide range of topics including literature, music, film, and celebrity news. Her articles provide insightful and engaging perspectives on current events and trends in the entertainment industry. She has also worked at the ABC and CNN.

Emily Olle
Emily Olle is a former senior journalist and the off-platform editor for The Advertiser, leading its social media and video strategy. She was part of the Advertiser team that won a Walkley Award in 2023 for the podcast Dying Rose, which investigated the police response to the deaths of six Indigenous women around Australia and recently spent time in London working at The Sun, one of the UK's most-circulated newspapers. Previously, Emily has spent time in the AFL world and at 7NEWS, and has a focus on youth affairs, politics and social issues.

THU 6 MAR

Tom Lamont 
Tom is an award-winning journalist. In 2015, he became one of the founding writers on the Guardian's Long Read desk and since 2017 he has been a regular correspondent for American GQ. He lives in north London with his wife and two children. Going Home is his first novel.

Katrina Strickland
Katrina is the editor of Good Weekend magazine, which she has helmed since June 2017. Prior to that she was editor of The Australian Financial Review Magazine and has held arts editor roles at both the AFR and The Australian. Her book, Affairs of the Art, about the widows and widowers who control the estates of some of Australia's most renowned artists, was published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2013.

Anna Vlach
Anna is a senior journalist at The Advertiser. Now in her 20th year with News Corp, she covers lifestyle, arts and entertainment but also has a passion for mentoring other journalists and writing human interest feature stories. She is a volunteer on a Salvation Army media committee and has previously worked in public relations for World Vision. She was named The Advertiser’s Journalist of the Year in 2022 and has a column in SA Weekend in which well-known South Australians - and those without a public profile - talk about their “sliding door” moments.