Suzan Giuliani
Suzan Giuliani is a senior reporter and Weekend Investigations Editor at The Daily Telegraph whose work sits at the intersection of education, child protection and hate-fuelled crime. Her reporting is defined by investigations into how institutions fail vulnerable children and students, using data, survivor testimony and long-form formats including documentary storytelling. She brings more than a decade of experience covering tragedy, crime and hatred into an education beat that treats schools and universities as frontline environments for both harm and resilience.
Child protection and Working With Children failures
Giuliani devotes significant reporting to gaps in child safety systems, particularly around Working With Children Checks and the monitoring of offenders. Her coverage includes multiple investigations into private tutors and childcare operators working without required background checks, documenting cases where convicted sex offenders were able to coach or teach children despite existing laws.
She reports on allegations of abuse and neglect in childcare centres, drawing on expert commentary and regulatory records to show how oversight can break down in everyday settings. In another strand of her child protection work, she has highlighted how registered sex offenders on the child protection register use platforms such as Roblox and Discord to groom children, focusing on the way online games and chat services complicate traditional safeguarding frameworks.
Across these stories, she consistently centres the risk to children and the structural reasons those risks persist, rather than treating individual scandals as isolated events.
Antisemitism, hate and campus culture
Giuliani’s recent investigations into antisemitism position schools and universities as key battlegrounds in contemporary hate.
She hosted and produced the Teaching Hate documentary, which follows Jewish students and academics at Australian universities as they recount harassment, exclusion and fear on campus, using their testimony as the spine of the narrative. In an accompanying feature, she links the rise in campus antisemitism to broader histories of hatred, drawing on an interview she conducted almost a decade earlier with Holocaust survivor Kitia Altman and arguing for stronger antisemitism education in schools and universities.
Her reporting describes walking through university encampments as an education reporter, documenting how tent cities and protest cultures reshape student life and expose Jewish students to new forms of hostility. Beyond universities, she has reported on surging antisemitism in schools, using new data to show changes since the Bondi terror attack and incorporating community voices from Jewish organisations to illustrate how classroom incidents are escalating. This body of work marks her out as a reporter who connects individual acts of hate to institutional responses, curriculum debates and the lived experience of students.
Principals, school culture and family choices
Alongside investigations into abuse and hate, Giuliani covers the everyday leadership and culture of schools, often through the lens of principals and the choices facing families. Her education reporting includes stories on teaching students who feel pressured to abandon their passion, capturing how training pathways and job market realities shape who enters the profession and how long they stay. She has profiled “pioneer” principals driving education revolutions that encourage students to “shoot for the stars”, using individual school leaders as case studies in ambition and innovation within the public system.
Other pieces introduce Sydney’s newest school principals, presenting them as “movers, shakers and geniusmakers” and exploring how their leadership styles influence school culture, expectations and outcomes. Giuliani also reports on tensions between public and private schooling, including a story where a Clovelly Public School principal urges parents not to be “swindled” by swanky private schools, using that stance to examine value, perception and the marketing of education to families.
Through these articles, she treats principals as central actors in debates over equity, aspiration and the real-world impact of policy on classrooms.
Investigative format and reporting style
Giuliani’s work is consistently investigative in form, regardless of whether she is covering crime, antisemitism or education policy. She uses long-form features and documentaries to follow stories over time, returning to subjects such as Holocaust education and antisemitism with new angles and updated evidence rather than treating them as one-off news events. Her child protection stories rely on regulatory documents, expert interviews and case studies to show how laws like Working With Children Checks operate in practice, a method that blends hard news with systemic analysis. Across beats, she foregrounds the voices of those directly affected - Jewish students, survivors, parents, tutors and teachers - while anchoring their experiences in data and institutional records.
As a senior reporter and investigations editor covering crime, education, housing and general news, she brings an investigative lens to a broad brief but returns most often to stories where children and students are exposed to preventable harm.
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Bridie Short
Bridie Short reports on how learning environments shape young people’s experiences and their engagement with wider issues. She writes about education for Lynn News, a local news publication with a focus on community stories. Her coverage centres on classrooms and other learning settings, with attention to the people and events that define daily life there. She has written about drama students paying homage to the climate emergency with a performance, framing their creative response as part of their educational experience and blending arts coverage with an education lens. Her education reporting sits within a broader community news agenda, linking school and college stories to general news. Her pieces are grounded in concrete events and activities, showing what students and staff are doing rather than focusing on abstract policy.
Catherine Strohfeldt
Catherine Strohfeldt reports how education policy, money and behaviour collide in Queensland classrooms and childcare services, focusing on what government decisions mean for students, families and teachers day to day. She is an education reporter at Brisbane Times covering schools, universities and early learning alongside related state policy. She often starts with a single school, subject or provider to explain shifts in funding, discipline and workforce conditions, treating suspension statistics, surveys and on-the-ground accounts as complementary evidence. Her work links school fees, capital funding and teacher pay deals to who can access which schools and on what terms. Her beat extends into childcare chains in crisis and university leadership and governance. She also covers Queensland government, planning and environmental issues, showing how housing, health and coastal decisions reshape the communities in her education reporting.
Charles Bliss
Charles Bliss is a features-led reporter at the Eastern Daily Press whose distinct focus is education told through human stories about schools, pupils and the adults who work with them. He writes about what it feels like to be in a classroom or school community, using specific events, characters and concrete activity to show how reading, creativity and wellbeing are encouraged in young people. His education coverage centres children and teachers rather than policy, turning visits, campaigns and workshops into narrative pieces with practical detail. He gives particular weight to wellbeing, mental health and sensory learning, linking health, psychology and horticulture through tangible examples. Alongside education he covers health, environment, behaviour, everyday guidance and local innovation, using plain explanation, step-by-step advice and narrative structure to show how people learn, adapt and look after each other in their communities.
Conor Duffy
Conor Duffy stands out for linking education policy to the daily lives of students, parents and teachers, treating the classroom as part of a wider social system. He is the ABC’s national education and parenting reporter. His beat spans schools, universities and family life. He covers education policy, test scores, rankings, funding, teacher workload, behaviour, school refusal, student wellbeing and parenting stress. He reports on NAPLAN, university rankings, the Job Ready Graduates legislation and the cost of humanities degrees. He also covers privacy and school data. His reporting combines hard data, policy detail and personal stories. He has also done foreign, environment and investigative work for the ABC, including as North America correspondent, and has worked across Lateline, 7.30 and AM.