Jamieson Murphy
Jamieson Murphy is a senior newsroom leader at the Newcastle Herald who uses real estate, major projects and business decisions to explain how Newcastle and nearby cities are changing. His core focus is on the property market and large-scale development, tracking how planning approvals, infrastructure investments and industry leadership shape housing supply and the regional economy. He brings a business-column style to real estate coverage, grounding stories in policy detail, commercial rationale and the practical impact on builders, buyers and local employers.
Housing supply and large residential projects
Murphy’s real estate coverage centres on the scale and timing of new housing, particularly multi-hundred home projects in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. He reports on fast-tracked approvals for large estates and infill developments, outlining how planning decisions translate into hundreds of new dwellings coming onto the market. His work on projects such as the Anambah proposal for more than 900 homes shows a focus on the specific issues raised by planning authorities and the way developers respond to those concerns. In these stories he highlights the tension between demand for new housing, infrastructure capacity and community unease, keeping close attention on formal processes and documented objections rather than abstract market commentary.
Business column work on ports, flights and infrastructure
Through his Hunter Means Business column, Murphy regularly connects real estate and economic performance to major infrastructure and transport decisions. One strand of his work revisits long-running deals and public–private arrangements, such as the decade-on assessment of the Newcastle port lease and whether it delivered value to the city. Another focuses on connectivity and market access, including pieces on calls for direct flights between Newcastle and Perth that examine how aviation links are framed as catalysts for business growth and investment.
He also covers civic and recreational infrastructure, with reporting on the new sport and recreation centre at Morisset that tracks the repurposing of a former psychiatric hospital site into community facilities and the implications for nearby residents and land use. Across these stories he treats infrastructure as part of the same ecosystem as housing and commercial development, writing in a column format that weighs economic arguments, public expectations and political promises.
Property sector leadership and industry bodies
Murphy follows leadership changes and institutional moves in the property sector, linking individual appointments to broader development and advocacy agendas.
His coverage of a former Newcastle Herald journalist becoming a regional director at the Property Council looks at how industry bodies position themselves to influence planning policy and investment decisions. In this work he treats people moves as part of the machinery behind real estate outcomes, paying attention to the roles these organisations play in lobbying for projects, negotiating with government and shaping the narrative around growth.
This reinforces a through-line in his reporting: real estate is not just about listings and prices, but about the governance, representation and decision-making structures that determine what gets built and when.
Broader regional news and rural reporting background
Alongside his property and business coverage, Murphy’s byline appears on wider regional news, giving him a broad view of how housing and infrastructure sit within everyday life.
He has reported on disaster declarations, such as flooding in the Hunter region that was classified as a natural disaster zone, and on court and crime stories involving serious incidents like a burnout that injured multiple people. Professional profiles also describe earlier work on rural affairs and the national political beat, indicating experience with policy, agriculture and regional communities before moving into his current leadership role.
This broader reporting background informs his real estate coverage, which treats development as part of a larger social and economic landscape rather than an isolated commercial niche.
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Aleisha Dawson
Aleisha Dawson covers property where prestige deals, hard market data and lifestyle stories meet, with a particular focus on high-profile apartments and new projects in South East Queensland. She is a regional real estate editor within News Corp’s property network, overseeing property coverage for the Gold Coast Bulletin and contributing to Realestate.com.au’s property news. Her beat spans record-setting penthouse sales, off-market prestige deals, new apartment releases in landmark projects, and one-off high-value homes used as case studies in buyer behaviour. She tracks land and apartment markets with a data-led approach, using specific price points, volume figures and suburb lists. Dawson also reports on quirky homes, celebrity property, pop culture-linked locations and technology-shaped renovations, and her stories are widely republished by developers, agents and project marketers.
Blair Jackson
Blair Jackson explains housing through money: how prices, policy and banks shape the way people buy, sell and live. He is a reporter with the national wire service NewsWire, covering real estate and household finance across Australia. His work follows housing downturns, price movements, negative equity, mortgages, first-home buyers and existing borrowers. He reports on renters, poor housing conditions, high rents, repairs, affordability and housing inequality. He examines zoning, supply targets, tax changes, construction limits, development decisions and efforts to fix housing shortages. His finance coverage includes mortgage fraud, bank risk, interest rates, household costs and windfalls used to pay off property. He also covers auctions, listings, luxury homes, renovations and major developments. Jackson combines data, policy analysis, expert warnings, open-home and auction detail, and personal examples to show how financial decisions affect households and communities.
Bonnie Campbell
Bonnie Campbell is a luxury property reporter for The Australian Financial Review who focuses on the very top of the residential market, where big-ticket homes, mega-mansions and high-profile sales set and test price records. She covers trophy properties, record-breaking deals and prestige streets, using individual sales as case studies in how wealth, status and grand houses move through the market. Her stories track extreme price movements, large-scale renovations, unusual features and multi-million dollar listings, and link them to high-net-worth buyers, business leaders and public figures. She repeatedly returns to prestige coastal, resort and lifestyle markets, explaining how scarcity, views and amenity support multi-million dollar valuations. Alongside single-property features, she produces roundups of major luxury deals to show patterns in where the biggest money flows and which houses define the top end.
Caroline Delaney
Caroline Delaney is a senior property and features journalist at the Irish Examiner whose work links individual homes, damaged houses and outdoor spaces to the wider housing landscape. She covers residential listings with clear, price‑led pieces on specific homes coming to market, highlighting core details such as guide price, size, house type and a plain sense of location. Her property features look at fire damage and repair, treating house fires as a structural issue for the housing market and following cases through court proceedings and the process of putting homes right. She also reports on outdoor spaces and synthetic lawns, including environmental experts’ views on plastic turf in domestic gardens. Her news and features background keeps the tone fact‑led rather than promotional and gives her coverage a practical focus on aspiration, risk and everyday use of housing.