Sarah Richards
Sarah Richards is a multi-platform journalist with ABC News who covers how housing, disability and social policy shape everyday life. Her real estate reporting focuses on renters, using human stories such as Bernadette's to show the impact of seemingly small changes in rental arrangements.
Housing and renters in the real estate market
In her real estate coverage, Richards writes about the lived experience of renters rather than treating property solely as an asset class. She uses individual case studies, including renters like Bernadette, to show how modest adjustments to rental homes and agreements can significantly change comfort, security and autonomy for tenants.
Her stories stay close to everyday detail, explaining how decisions by landlords, property managers and regulators translate into practical consequences for people trying to maintain stable housing.
Multi-platform reporting within ABC News
Richards works across formats within ABC News, reflecting her role as a multi-platform journalist. She has experience in the organisation’s national digital team as both journalist and producer, giving her familiarity with online news presentation and audience-focused storytelling. Her career has included a period as an ABC News cadet in 2022, which adds structured newsroom training to her background and supports her current reporting across different program strands.
Disability and the justice system
Beyond housing, Richards reports on disability and the systems that affect people with disability.
Her coverage of Indigenous disability-led research explains a national first study examining the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability as they move through Australia’s justice system. In that work she highlights the perspectives of people at the centre of the research, setting out how justice processes interact with disability and why those experiences require closer attention. The focus on disability in a complex institutional setting aligns with her stated professional interest in stories about people with a disability.
Health and social policy stories
Richards also contributes to health reporting, including co-bylined work on health topics for ABC News. These stories sit within a broader interest in social policy, with stated areas of focus that include disability, social media and politics. Taken together, her real estate, disability, justice and health pieces show a consistent thread: she reports on how large systems and policies intersect with the lives of individuals, keeping the people affected at the centre of her coverage.
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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.