Finance Journalistsin Australia

Aaron Bell stands out for turning broker research and complex market commentary into clear stories for everyday investors. He writes about the Australian share market as a journalist for The Motley Fool Australia and also works as a freelance journalist and editor focused on financial topics and the Australian economy. His beat covers ASX-listed companies and exchange-traded funds. He writes on broker recommendations, valuation changes, price targets, upside forecasts, earnings results, guidance, and share price reactions. He also covers thematic and emerging markets ETFs, NASDAQ-focused funds, and sectors such as space-related industries. In his reporting, he uses numbers, rating changes, and target prices to explain risk, reward, and what has changed in the business.

Adam McCleery tracks the money and deals shaping advertising and media agencies. He is a journalist at AdNews, covering agency pitches, account moves, media buying decisions, budgets, contracts and settlements. His beat sits between finance, media and marketing, with a focus on advertiser confidence, commercial outcomes and the pressures facing agencies, brands and media owners. He reports on television, streaming, subscription models and platform strategies, as well as artificial intelligence, data, privacy and ad technology. His past work spans print, digital and business-to-business titles. He writes in a straightforward, deal-driven style. He follows how brands review, consolidate or shift agency relationships, and how pricing, measurement, fragmentation, policy and economic conditions affect spending, investment, risk and the value of agency services.

Adelaide Miller is an award-winning national business reporter at the ABC who stands out for linking markets coverage with accountability reporting on how finance, regulation and corporate decisions affect workers, consumers and small businesses. She covers superannuation, small business obligations, the ASX, global indices, inflation, government debt, investor sentiment, cryptocurrency, corporate conduct, mortgage stress, and consumer impact. She reports on the gap between legislative intent and on-the-ground practice, and she often uses data, live markets context, and direct reporting from affected people. Her background includes ABC Investigations, Background Briefing, and Four Corners. She also has reported on AI-driven political campaigning, Telstra’s Senate inquiry scrutiny, family law, and a personal essay on her grandmother’s dementia. She works across TV, radio, online, and podcast formats.

Adeshola Ore reports on finance and public policy through their effects on everyday life. They are a reporter at the Guardian, covering tax debates, public spending, institutional policy and the communities shaped by them. Their beat also includes politics, rights, social equity, climate, migration, Indigenous policy, agriculture, food safety and public health. Notable reporting has covered bird flu and egg supplies, catastrophic floods, death cap mushroom poisonings, refugee communities, university misconduct and place-naming rules in Tasmania. Earlier work included global climate conferences, international affairs and social policy. Ore reports through live political coverage, ground-level interviews, documents and hearings. They write news features and explainers that clarify complex rules, risks and rights. They also contribute to the Guardian’s daily news podcast, bringing field reporting and interviews with affected communities into wider discussions of politics and policy.

Adrian Suljanovic reports on the third-party distribution channel at Broker Daily, focusing on how brokers, lenders, regulators and borrowers interact across mortgage and property markets. His core beat covers broker operations, lender strategy, regulation, tax, affordability, regional housing, technology and leadership. He follows rate changes, enforcement actions, compliance pressures, product shifts and executive appointments, linking them to broker workloads, lender decisions and client outcomes. His reporting also examines deposit barriers, household spending, regional housing trends and the use of non-bank lenders. He produces data-led news, profiles and interviews, with practical attention to how policy, products and technology affect the finance ecosystem. He has written for IFA, Investor Daily and Lawyer’s Weekly, and joined Broker Daily’s mortgages team in 2022.

Ahmed Yussuf is a finance-focused reporter at ABC News who treats money as a lived experience, connecting policy, technology and discrimination to everyday life. He covers how economic pressures, housing trends and regulatory changes land on households and communities, with a beat that spans cost of living, digital regulation and enforcement. His recent work focuses on housing markets and household budgets, explaining what shifts in prices and rising expenses mean for families and the charities they turn to for help. He also reports on age verification, online privacy and new rules for internet platforms, framing digital regulation as a consumer and civic issue. A background in race and culture reporting, including work on racism in schools and unequal COVID-19 fines, underpins his coverage of global events, markets and financial risk. He mainly produces digital explainers, features and news analyses in plain language.

Alex Burke is a finance journalist and editor who stands out for connecting structural changes in financial advice to real risks and opportunities for advisers and their clients. He sits at the centre of ifa’s coverage of the advice sector, reporting on retirement income, advice licensing, regulation, technology and investment markets. His work tracks licensee dynamics, adviser movements, corporate actions in wealth management and consolidation trends, always tied back to business models and client outcomes. He has a long‑running focus on retirement income and superannuation, reporting across news, analysis, long‑form features and audio. His beat includes enforcement actions, advice economics and policy proposals on the future of licensing. He also covers AI and technology in advice, practice‑level traps, macro and market themes and superannuation engagement, explaining complex shifts in clear, practice‑level terms.

Andrew Hobbs is a wealth reporter at The Australian Financial Review who explains how retirement savings, tax rules and investment strategy shape long-term wealth. He covers self-managed superannuation funds, financial planning, inheritance, retirement income, property, listed markets and stock selection. His reporting examines how policy changes, market conditions and financial products affect pre-retirees, private investors and high-balance super members. He has written about super wars, early access to super, the new Division 296 tax, capital gains tax and whether property remains a sound investment. He reports in a practical, options-oriented style, linking technical rules and market shifts to portfolio choices and concrete outcomes. Before returning to reporting, he spent more than two decades in editing and newsroom management at The Australian Financial Review, Bloomberg and AAP, including managing live blogs and shaping complex business coverage.

Andrew McKean is a finance journalist at Rampart whose reporting connects institutional finance to the concrete experiences of customers, investors and staff. He focuses on banks, fund managers, superannuation, wealth management and financial advice, treating them as parts of the same story. His coverage of mid-tier banks and non-bank lenders uses detailed case studies and clear numbers to show how ordinary borrowers expose structural weaknesses and market repricing. He previously covered superannuation, advice and investment markets at a specialist finance masthead and has written for Money magazine on retirement outcomes, fees and regulation. McKean reports closely on fund structures, private credit, boutique firms, fees and governance, often framing stories through specific trades and portfolio decisions. He works across breaking news, enterprise and features in digital, print and podcast formats, with plain, narrative reporting built around scenes, dialogue and data.

Annie Kane is a managing editor and specialist mortgage broking journalist whose work is defined by a clear broker-first lens. She leads editorial strategy at The Adviser while writing news and features on the mortgage broking industry, the mortgage market, financial regulation, fintechs and the wider lending landscape. She focuses on lender policies, accreditation decisions, acquisitions and strategic moves, explaining how distribution and compliance changes affect brokers, their businesses and their clients. She tracks monetary policy, regulatory action and cash rate impacts, turning dense lender and regulator communications into usable guidance. Kane reports on broker business models, awards and community life and also hosts podcasts, webcasts and broker events, using interviews and panel discussions to unpack complex developments. Her earlier experience in sustainability and consumer magazines informs her clear, accessible style.

Anthony Macdonald examines corporate Australia through banks, markets and major corporate transactions, using a deals-focused lens to explain the wider economy. He writes the Chanticleer column at The Australian Financial Review, concentrating on finance, financial markets and business leaders. His commentary draws on more than a decade of business reporting and earlier work auditing and advising financial services firms, with a focus on balance sheets, deal structures and policy decisions and what they mean for investors and households. He covers lenders, listed financial institutions, equity and debt markets, capital raisings, contested takeovers, infrastructure and telecommunications deals. He previously co-edited the Financial Review’s Street Talk column, breaking transaction and capital markets news and analysing winners, losers and strategy. He also hosts the Chanticleer podcast and contributes summit analysis, linking macro themes, corporate actions and boardroom decisions in clear, grounded narratives.

April Glover is a senior reporter who covers finance through human stories, showing how economic shocks, policy decisions and corporate restructures hit everyday people and small businesses. At Nine she reports on cost-of-living pressure, household budgets, job security and changing markets, using clear prose and case studies to explain money issues and financial resilience. Her work spans breaking news, features and deep dives on taxes, redundancy, fuel rationing, property prices, currency moves, bank failures, superannuation collapses and identity theft. She often anchors stories in specific suburbs and towns to show housing, infrastructure, climate risk and local economies at street level, and invites readers to share experiences of financial harm. Glover joined Nine in 2021 and has eight years’ experience across news, lifestyle and real-life reporting, with past magazine work for that’s life!, WHO and New Idea.

Bec Wilson stands out for her clear, practical coverage of modern retirement, longer working lives and midlife money. She writes the money pages for The Sydney Morning Herald and sister mastheads, and her columns focus on pre- and post-retirement readers. She explains superannuation settings, advice costs, policy change, health insurance and everyday financial decisions in plain language. Her work covers the realities of not being ready to stop work, catch-up strategies for late starters, retirement income rules, downsizing, budgeting and debt. She uses case-style examples and scenario-based analysis to show the impact of different choices. She is the author of How to Have an Epic Retirement, writes a newsletter for pre- and post-retirees, and hosts the Prime Time podcast.

Bruce Powers is a senior analyst at FXEmpire who applies a structured, chart-driven approach to price forecasting across commodities, equities, indices, and digital assets. He is a Chartered Market Technician with more than twenty years in the markets as an analyst, trader, educator, and writer, and he writes for retail traders who want actionable, technically grounded setups. His gold and natural gas forecasts lean on a weight-of-evidence style of technical analysis, using pattern recognition, momentum, trend structure, volume, and precise support and resistance zones to map clear bullish and bearish scenarios. He covers individual U.S. stocks, major indices, and coins like Solana with the same breakout and exhaustion lens, and adds educational pieces and podcast appearances that explain his methods and risk-focused approach built on clear levels and trend confirmation.

Bryce Luff is a senior reporter at 7NEWS who explains how money decisions by governments, regulators and big companies affect household finances. He covers tax rules, prices and policy shifts from the point of view of ordinary consumers managing rising costs. His finance reporting follows cost-of-living pressures on household budgets, tax office warnings, compliance risks, rule changes and what they mean for take-home pay and refunds. He tracks federal budgets live, breaking down tax scales and relief for average earners, and links cash rate decisions to borrowing costs. He reports on prices, energy, transport and payments, including Cash Out Day, refunds ordered by consumer watchdogs and rising ride-share surcharges. He works extensively in live blogs on budgets, security, international events and domestic breaking news. He started as a football reporter, moved into community and digital roles, and now focuses on accessible finance stories and general news.

Cameron Micallef connects big shifts in money, markets and policy to the day-to-day decisions of savers, investors and households. He is a finance reporter with NewsWire whose coverage runs across News.com.au’s finance pages, spanning investing, superannuation, property and household budgets. His work draws on close to a decade in specialist personal finance media, including investment, property and comparison outlets focused on utilities and banking products. He reports on long-term wealth building, covering listed companies, funds and property with a focus on everyday portfolios, cash flow and risk. Superannuation is a core pillar, with stories that walk readers through contribution habits, compound growth and fund settings in concrete terms. He also covers interest rates, markets, central bank policy, household bills, tax and wages, always asking who pays and translating policy detail into clear impacts on home loans, rents and take-home pay.

Carlos Tse focuses on how tax authorities and regulators shape the financial obligations of businesses and directors, where enforcement and compliance intersect with the day-to-day work of accountants. He is a graduate journalist covering finance, tax and superannuation for Accountants Daily, with related work across HR Leader and Lawyers Weekly. He reports on ATO debt collection, unpaid superannuation, SME debt-collection targets and post-COVID prosecution activity, examining oversight reviews and maladministration findings and how they alter risk for advisers and directors. His tax and superannuation coverage tracks policy shifts such as tranche-based capital gains tax and negative gearing reforms, proposed bans on limited recourse borrowing arrangements and the Payday Super regime. He reports on regulatory powers, governance and professional oversight, small business pressures, restructuring and firm mergers, treating accountants as key intermediaries and explaining practical impacts for advisory work and client relationships.

Cecile Lefort is distinct for linking government bonds, central-bank decisions and investor strategy in clear, data-driven reporting. She is a financial journalist and markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review, covering financial markets, fixed income, foreign exchange and broader economic themes. Her work follows sovereign debt from issuance to investor demand, including government bond sales, debt-servicing costs, yields, green bonds and climate risk. She regularly attends Reserve Bank of Australia press conferences, questioning the governor on inflation, wages, interest rates and the risks behind policy decisions. She also reports on global central banks, currency moves, jobs and inflation data, and how traders reprice rate paths. Her coverage examines professional investors, bond valuations, portfolio strategy, housing and market structure. She explains complex links between policy, debt, currencies and asset prices in plain prose.

Daniel Paul Johns stands out for turning market moves, crypto risks, and investing jargon into clear explainers and narrative frames for everyday investors. He is a finance journalist and TV anchor at Kalkine Media, where he covers business and market news, trends, and analysis. His beat spans cryptocurrency, listed equities, funds, and investor behaviour. He writes on Bitcoin as an inflation hedge, new or opaque crypto projects like Olympus, crypto terms such as FUD, and technical failures such as Cashio’s infinite mint glitch. He also covers ether’s drop after the Ethereum Merge, dividend franking credits, retirement planning, and seasonal trading ideas like Halloween strategies. He brings more than 16 years of producing, writing, broadcasting, and sports commentary to his work, with a clear, concise style.

Daniel Van Boom tracks the point where technology, innovation and money meet, and he writes for Forbes Australia. He focuses on executive pay, funding rounds, policy change and AI-driven infrastructure, using hard numbers and clear explanations to show how capital shapes founders, investors and high-growth companies. He also covers tax and regulation, especially how capital gains settings affect where tech founders build and invest, and he reports on startups and deep tech, including Outlier Space’s $10.5 million pre-seed round. Before Forbes Australia, he covered Big Tech, crypto, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, and earlier he wrote about cryptocurrency, NFTs, culture and international news at a global technology publication.

Daniel Ziffer explains how finance and business decisions affect customers, taxpayers and workers. He covers business and finance for ABC News across television, radio, online and podcasts. His reporting spans banking misconduct, corporate governance, markets, interest rates, economic policy, technology and the cost of doing business. He covered the Hayne royal commission and wrote a book-length account of its proceedings and the problems it exposed in banking, superannuation and financial services. He has also reported on money laundering, consulting firm scandals, tax leaks and KPMG’s mistakes. He follows stories beyond the first revelation, tracking inquiries, regulation and whether reforms deliver change. His work combines case studies, interviews and expert commentary with plain explanations of jargon. He has more than two decades of experience in daily news, investigations and explanatory reporting.

David Taylor is a business reporter and correspondent at the ABC whose work joins hard financial data, corporate behaviour, regulation and clear explanations of what it all means for people’s money and the broader economy. He focuses on finance and the economy across radio, television and digital platforms, bringing around two decades of media and market experience and an on-air explainer style. He covers the economic cycle, interest rates, inflation and Reserve Bank decisions, tracking how policy settings and indicators flow through to households and businesses. He reports on corporate conduct, governance, regulation, retirement savings and consumer protection, including major companies, financial institutions and consulting firms. He contributes live markets and currency coverage with context on S&P/ASX 200 moves and the Australian dollar. His cross-platform work also examines the overlap between finance, technology and security, including online scams and social media account hacks.

Emily Bennett is a finance reporter focused on how financial systems, scams and government decisions affect ordinary people and vulnerable communities. She reports for Nine.com.au across breaking news, consumer stories and social justice coverage. Her work links complex financial issues to concrete human consequences, using detailed case studies and clear explanations drawn from major national and global events. She covers consumer scams and banking failures, welfare debts, class actions and compensation, and breaking news across conflicts, markets and government support. Her reporting tracks timelines, amounts lost, complaint pathways, legal outcomes and policy decisions, with close attention to affected individuals and practical detail. Bennett brings more than a decade of experience, including over five years in regional newsrooms and extensive work on courts, councils, budgets, elections, natural disasters and major national stories.

Fiona Blackwood stands out for finance reporting grounded in everyday life. She is a news and current affairs reporter at the ABC. Her work links money decisions to work, health and consumer protection. She writes clear explainers and case-driven stories rather than market commentary. Her finance coverage focuses on choices ordinary people face, such as retiring overseas on a pension, and on the practical trade-offs in income, living costs, portability and entitlements. She also reports on changing work, job security, AI and automation, career education, and health and consumer complaints. Her stories track how policy and regulation affect people, with a measured, explanatory style built for readers making decisions.

Gemma Crotty reports on the financial side of property investment, treating tax reforms, legal penalties and regulatory enforcement as direct inputs into investor risk and return. She writes for Smart Property Investment, focusing on how policy decisions, compliance risks and market structure shape investor returns. Her coverage links fines, reforms and comparative performance to risk management and strategy for property owners. She reports on investor tax reforms, targeted tax relief and legal penalties for commercial landlords, with monetary figures, timelines and policy detail central to her work. She also covers construction failures, builder misconduct and bungled renovations as non-market threats to portfolio performance. Her market analysis contrasts owner-occupier-heavy suburbs with investor hotspots using dollar-based performance gaps. She writes extensively for Real Estate Business and brings a background in television news and digital reporting to coverage that joins policy, regulation, market data and consumer experience.

Grace Lagan connects interest rate moves, budget decisions and trading culture, showing how policy and technology flow through markets and younger investors. She is a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review covering finance with a focus on interest rates, generational wealth and the tools retail traders use. She tracks how expectations for rate rises and cuts shape equity markets and investor sentiment, working with economists to explain the implications for borrowers, savers and listed companies. She links central bank guidance, budget and tax settings and futures pricing to movements in major indices and sectors such as technology. Her reporting covers federal budget measures, tax discounts on equities and generational wealth, treating budgets as part of the wealth-building environment. She spends months inside retail trading culture, testing AI tools, acronyms, prediction markets and investor “vibe coding”, and follows ASX companies and investor events to show how corporate communication strategies feed into market response.

Gus McCubbing stands out by bringing markets, sport, politics and lifestyle into the same frame, treating financial stories as human narratives rather than abstract data. He is a reporter at The Australian Financial Review and has been in that role since 2022. He covers how money, markets and policy decisions flow through to companies, investors and everyday lives, tracking sector moves on the ASX and global capital flows. His core finance work focuses on equity markets, commodities and debt, investor positioning, technology stocks, valuation gaps, broker conviction and contrarian buying. He uses sport to explore money, career transitions, venture-backed entrepreneurship and the business of fandom. He writes long-form features on campaigning, social and economic divides, higher education and energy projects. He also covers travel and hotels, highlighting the commercial logic and cultural positioning behind venues and neighbourhoods.

Helen Gates covers finance in resource and circular economy industries for Resource Media. She focuses on how government funding shapes domestic critical minerals production and recycling businesses. Her beat centers on critical minerals, recycling finance, government programmes, and their market impact. She reports on how public money is directed into projects that expand local extraction, processing capacity, and recycling infrastructure. She tracks how policy commitments are meant to stimulate private investment, de-risk emerging technologies, and shape expectations around demand, capacity, and competition. She writes with a circular economy lens, keeping resource efficiency and materials recovery central to the story.

Holly Payne tracks money and power in general practice, focusing on how insurer deals, Medicare rules and training contracts translate into pressure on clinics and doctors. She is an editor and medical journalist at The Medical Republic, responsible for clinical updates and opinions as well as GP news, research and politics. Her most distinctive work examines private health insurers and other corporate owners of GP practices, quantifying market share, clinic counts and ownership rankings to show who controls group practices. She also scrutinises Medicare items, compliance and regulatory performance, linking billing rules, enforcement delays and policy disputes to frontline billing and testing. A further strand follows GP workforce economics, including large training contracts, registrar and supervisor pay, and payroll tax stand‑offs, always tying contract values, cohort sizes and pay rises to the lived experience of GPs.

Isaac Francis follows how money moves through companies and into digital asset markets, focusing on concrete transactions, performance metrics and regulatory decisions. He is a finance journalist at Grafa, covering corporate results, capital allocation and crypto developments in concise, data driven reports. He focuses on hard numbers, deal terms and policy language rather than commentary or market colour. He covers listed companies across sectors, anchoring stories in earnings figures, revenue trends, balance sheet decisions and capital expenditure, including BHP’s Jansen Stage 2 investment and Core Scientific’s acquisition of Polaris DS. He runs a parallel crypto beat on assets, stablecoins and decentralised finance, tracking allocations, risk management and registration mandates. He also reports on market structure, research and policy, from prediction markets studies to blockchain policy meetings and court rulings on platform governance. He writes in a brief, structured format that leads with headline financial facts and avoids opinion.

Jack Derwin follows the money through hard documents, data and market consequences, showing how decisions by banks, fintechs and listed companies flow through to workers, borrowers and investors. He is a markets and finance correspondent at Capital Brief with more than a decade of business reporting experience, and has previously worked at The Asahi Shimbun, Business Insider and 7News. His core beat is banking strategy, mortgage policy and regulators, with coverage of challenger brands, referral arrangements and regulatory audits. He reports on corporate restructures, job cuts and market reactions, connecting layoffs and equity dilution to strategy and investor confidence. He also covers retail investors, trading data, fintech, AI, digital assets and compliance trends, blending scoops, regulatory material and trading data across newsletter and on‑air formats.

Jack Houghton covers the intersection of financial power, media behaviour and digital platforms for Sky News Australia. He is the digital editor for SkyNews.com.au, its social channels and video products, leading teams across long-form writing, video and online broadcast content. He also hosts The Media Show, a weekly program examining news reporting, misinformation and media conduct. His reporting covers public broadcaster standards, editorial bias, altered images, fact-checking, censorship and platform governance. He connects bank disputes, online fraud, energy taxation and government policy to consumer harm, household costs, taxpayers and voters. He examines how politicians, diplomats, influencers and digital platforms shape public debate. He reports through investigations, archival footage, interviews and analysis, often testing institutional decisions against their real-world effects. He has also written for newspapers over more than a decade.

James Thomson shows how corporate strategy, funding decisions and market regimes shape investor outcomes. He is the senior Chanticleer columnist at The Australian Financial Review, covering finance, corporate Australia and global markets. His beat includes listed companies, banks, resource groups, private credit, private equity, software, infrastructure, housing, construction and property risk. He examines board decisions, governance, capital allocation, interest rates, inflation, regulation and the effects on shareholders, lenders and super funds. He also co-hosts Chanticleer podcast episodes on markets, corporate Australia and property. Thomson previously served as companies and markets editor at The Australian Financial Review, edited BRW and its Rich 200 franchise, and ran SmartCompany and LeadingCompany as editor and publisher. He writes in an analytical, direct style, using company results, investor commentary and board decisions to explain how market stress and regime changes ripple through sectors.

Jamie Wickham writes analytical investment commentary that links big structural shifts such as technology and market cycles to concrete portfolio allocation decisions for long-term investors. He focuses on how investors balance domestic and global equity exposure and how themes like artificial intelligence feed into productivity, living standards and equity returns. His work centres on allocation choices and long-term outcomes, not stock picking. Wickham writes about AI and other technological change through an economic and social lens, situating them in a long history of productivity and growth. A CFA charterholder, he is a partner at Minchin Moore Private Wealth and was previously managing director of Morningstar Australia. His discursive essays for Firstlinks and his Morningstar contributions combine market context, economic reasoning and practical implications for asset allocation.

Jamie Wickham is a finance commentator whose writing is shaped by more than 25 years in financial services, including senior roles in global investment research and private wealth advisory. He writes for Morningstar Australia, with bylines that identify him as a partner at Minchin Moore Private Wealth and former managing director of Morningstar Australia. He focuses on how investors allocate between Australian and global sharemarkets, treating the domestic versus global choice as a portfolio‑wide decision rather than a search for a single winning market. He covers allocation and governance themes, including how core equity allocations are built, how investors respond to equity market cycles and bubble narratives, and how language and psychology around markets influence long‑term returns and client outcomes for institutional and family office investors.

Jessica Penny is a wealth reporter with a structure-first view of money, concentrating on rules, documents and frameworks and then showing how they play out in the lives of investors and families. She covers personal finance for The Australian Financial Review, focusing on investing and property-related tax and investment issues, and has held this role since 2025. Her beat spans household wealth, the mechanics of personal finance and how everyday investors build, protect and transfer wealth. She reports on property through tax and policy, examining changes to deductions, thresholds and incentives, including recent work on negative gearing after budgets. She also covers wealth transfer and crypto assets, treating digital currencies as part of the family balance sheet and using individual cases to show systemic issues around inheritance, access and documentation.

Joe Aston is a business and finance columnist whose defining focus is corporate power, capital structures and governance decisions rather than simple deal reporting. He is the founder of Rampart, a premium subscription news publication described as investigative commentary on business and finance, and he continues to write columns for The Australian Financial Review. His reporting centres on how financing structures, related party dealings and valuation practices affect investors and counterparties, with a forensic, critical tone that stresses disclosure failures and optimistic fundraising. He returns often to non‑bank credit and complex financing arrangements, examining how capital is structured and deployed through the actions of executives, boards and advisers. Aston previously helmed the Rear Window column for more than a decade, building a reputation for bold, agenda‑setting commentary on business elites, and he is also a best‑selling author of a book on Qantas and its corporate decisions.

John Kehoe is economics editor at the Australian Financial Review, known for treating fiscal policy as a political economy story and turning budget debates into quantifiable questions that can be tested. He focuses on national economic policy, tax and the intersection of politics, business and the budget, showing how government decisions flow through the economy, public institutions and households. His core run is federal fiscal policy, especially budget deficits and the credibility of government costings, reporting from Parliament House on major budget decisions and austerity measures. He uses official data, independent analysis and long experience in Treasury, banking and federal politics to test political narratives. Tax policy is a second major strand, with explainers on income tax cuts and capital gains tax that link technical design to real investment choices, distribution and incentives. He also brings an intergenerational lens to productivity, housing, tax concessions and public debt, and draws on past work as a Washington correspondent to add global context.

Jordyn Beazley reports for Guardian Australia on how infrastructure, protest movements and access to essential services shape people’s daily and financial lives. She is strongest on the practical fallout of outages, policing and rules, from transport and payments to basic services and legal access. Her reporting follows what happens when systems fail or change, and she links policy, police decisions and technology disruptions to their effects on commuters, households and businesses. She writes news, live blogs, features and video explainers. Her work includes coverage of a major Telstra outage, protest rights in New South Wales, a mass march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and a low-fee legal model for the “missing middle.” She also has experience across environment, rural and regional coverage, foreign affairs and audio formats.

Josh Butler connects tax, budgets and social spending to party strategy and voter sentiment. He is a political reporter and chief of staff at Guardian Australia. His finance coverage examines tax changes, budget measures and funding for programs such as the NDIS, including what political deals may mean for service delivery and equity. He tracks how economic anxiety, housing pressures, immigration and cost-of-living concerns shape voting and fiscal policy. From federal parliament, he writes daily news, live blogs, explanatory pieces, analysis and longer features. He also hosts the Australian Politics podcast, where he speaks with strategists and pollsters about the electoral stakes of policy choices. He contributes to the politics newsletter, helping explain how budgets, tax and economic policy are communicated, contested and understood by the public.

Josie Harvey is a digital editor and journalist at SBS News who covers finance and the economy, focusing on how policy, markets and scams affect household budgets. She reports on superannuation and retirement savings, investment scams, tax traps, cost-of-living relief, and how complex financial systems shape everyday decisions. Her work includes detailed explainers on how much superannuation people need to retire, realistic target balances, and tools like the official Moneysmart retirement calculator. She reports on scam pump-and-dump schemes, red flags for small investors, exchange-traded funds, and cross-border property investment tax rules. Her beat extends to wealth tax debates, energy bill rebates, unclaimed Medicare benefits, offshored jobs, and global shocks such as US–Iran tensions, consistently linking policy and corporate decisions to wages, bills and access to essential services.

Joyce Moullakis follows capital through banks, dealmakers and new asset classes, focusing on financial risk, regulation and the commercial effects of market shifts. She is an associate editor and investment banking journalist at the Australian Financial Review. Her beat covers company news, policy, investment banking, private equity, financial services, business banking, mortgage brokers, asset management, infrastructure and energy investment. She reports on deals, investor behaviour, adviser moves, digital infrastructure, lending, compliance and the flow of capital into transition assets. Her reporting combines transaction details with analysis of institutions, incentives and risk. She examines how banks, investors and policymakers respond to changing markets and the broader economy. She also moderates summit discussions with senior executives, investors, policymakers and ministers, using direct questioning to connect strategy and regulation with effects on clients, shareholders and markets.

Julian Barnes focuses on how funding structures, regulation and technology shifts reshape the lending and credit market, using capital flows, deal terms and loan metrics as his main lens. He holds a central editorial role at Broker Daily and reports on how investor capital moves into mortgage and consumer finance products. His beat spans capital markets funding for non-bank lenders, residential mortgage-backed securities, specialist and challenger lender loan books, and how lenders plug into broker distribution and commercial channels. He covers major bank lending policy, product settings and technology leadership, tying rule changes and executive moves to lending conditions, growth plans and digital, data and AI capabilities. Barnes also tracks regulation, housing policy, enforcement and fraud, as well as credit risk patterns, consumer trends such as electric vehicle adoption, and housing investment models and home equity funds, always grounded in specific data and operational detail.

Kate McClymont is The Sydney Morning Herald’s chief investigative reporter, known for exposing corruption, fraud and abuse of power across politics, business, sport and the courts. She covers ICAC inquiries, corporate governance failures, financial misconduct, organised fraud, criminal cases and professional oversight. Her reporting has examined Eddie Obeid, Michael Williamson, the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs salary-cap scandal, Melissa Caddick, Charlie Teo, Don Burke and Dyson Heydon. She also reports on WiseTech Global chairman Richard White and Operation Rosny, tracking alleged blackmail, sham invoices and factional manoeuvring. McClymont writes in-depth investigations, analyses and inquiry notebooks for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She follows documents, hearings and evidence over time, often working with other reporters. Her investigations have also appeared in podcast form, including a major series on the Caddick case, and have won multiple Walkleys and an Outstanding Contribution to Journalism honour.

Luca Ittimani stands out for linking economic policy to the people it reaches: borrowers, renters and investors. He is a business and economics reporter at Guardian Australia. He covers interest rates, housing, tax and the broader cost of living, and his reporting mixes straightforward explainers, data-led analysis and field reporting across written pieces, video and audio. His core work tracks Reserve Bank decisions, the cash rate and their effects on inflation, mortgage costs, business conditions, households and markets. He also covers housing policy, property investment, budgets and tax changes, with regular focus on rental prices, housing supply, investor behaviour, capital gains and everyday bills. He has also reported on social and cultural stories, including an anti-abortion rally, a vandalised Jewish bagel shop and a leap day feature.

Luke Kinsella reports how economic policy decisions move through wages, public services and financial markets, with monetary policy and inflation expectations at the core of his work. He is a reporter on the finance desk at The Australian Financial Review, working within its markets and wealth coverage. He covers Reserve Bank decisions and communication, fiscal rules and public sector spending, wage dynamics and productivity, and regulation of listed companies. His reporting links interest rates and inflation expectations to wages, household costs and the broader economy. He explains how savings targets and spending reviews shape services and employment. On the markets beat he examines volatility, disclosure obligations and regulatory enforcement. His work on wages, productivity and living standards connects macroeconomic trends to household outcomes, with close attention to institutional design and technical detail.

Makiko Yamazaki is a senior economic news correspondent at Reuters whose distinct focus is the intersection of Japan’s economic policy, yen strategy and central bank decisions with global markets. She turns technical shifts in currency management and interest rates into clear, market-relevant stories, centred on the finance ministry, the Bank of Japan and the government’s broader economic agenda. Her beat spans foreign exchange intervention, including record single-day yen-buying operations, and the diplomatic understandings used to deter speculative attacks. She co-writes and reports on rate signals, inflation, trade and current account data, showing how indicators shape policy and market expectations. Beyond macro policy, she covers activist investors, poison pill defences and foreign investment screening. She also writes Reuters’ Macroscope series, delivering timely scoops grounded in official data, statements and market reaction.

Mark LaMonica, CFA is a finance specialist who helps individual investors make better decisions by challenging conventional investing and personal finance wisdom. He is Director of Personal Finance at Morningstar Australia, overseeing investor‑focused content across articles, explainer pieces, equity and fund research, and Your Money Weekly, and co‑hosts the Investing Compass podcast. His beat is individual investors, with a focus on unconventional wisdom, investor behaviour, income investing, dividends, retirement and the structures that drive long‑term outcomes. He tests popular investment narratives against evidence and long‑term goals, often using his own portfolio and detailed case studies to show how asset allocation, security selection and risk management work in practice. He explains markets and policy decisions in plain terms, links macro events to portfolio choices, and favours clear goals, disciplined processes and simple, repeatable strategies.

Matt Bell delivers fast, intraday coverage of markets across asset classes as a markets reporter at the Australian Financial Review, overseeing the Markets Live blog. He focuses on real-time price moves and data releases, turning them into clear, timely updates during the trading day. His beat spans equities, bonds, currencies, commodities, crypto and major macro events, with Markets Live as his core platform and main outlet for real-time commentary. In equities, he covers the Australian sharemarket with an emphasis on the S&P/ASX indices and notable individual stocks. He folds currencies and macro data into his reporting, showing how releases like consumer price index prints move both equities and foreign exchange. His writing is tightly paced, factual and numbers-led, tracking direction, key levels and immediate reactions rather than long-term analysis.

Max Mason follows the fault lines where finance, the law and misconduct meet, focusing on how regulators, courts and companies handle wrongdoing and its impact on customers and shareholders. He is a senior reporter at The Australian Financial Review covering insolvency, regulation, financial crime, cybercrime, courts and corporate wrongdoing, with work recognised by major journalism awards including a Walkley Award. His core run is the legal and regulatory machinery that governs the financial system, tracking enforcement actions, investigations, fines and court decisions. He reports on corporate misconduct, shareholder actions, governance disputes and boardroom tensions, reconstructing decisions and personalities behind formal announcements. Mason also has substantial work on media and marketing, examining pressures on news, advertising and brand investment. His reporting is document-heavy and legalistic but accessible, grounded in filings, notices and company statements and informed by earlier roles across business and sport.

Michael Atkin is a national consumer affairs reporter at the ABC who focuses on how companies, regulators and markets fail consumers, especially people on low incomes and in vulnerable communities. He reports across television news, current affairs programs, radio and digital platforms, using investigations and case studies to show how policy, corporate decisions and financial products translate into real-world consequences. His beat sits at the intersection of finance, essential services and consumer protection, covering scams, fraud, superannuation, loans, credit, telecommunications, energy and retail. He follows the money through enforcement actions, court cases and systemic misconduct, linking large penalties and regulatory actions back to practical protections for customers. His work includes coverage of HSBC’s scam failures, Telstra’s treatment of Indigenous customers, Solar Power Nation’s customer complaints, Coles’ pricing strategies and a Clarion Award-winning business journalism investigation.

Michael Bleby is a senior property journalist who covers the financial and structural forces shaping property markets, with a focus on housing, lending and the built environment. He works at the Australian Financial Review, reporting across commercial and residential real estate, construction, design and architecture. His work focuses on how money, policy and industry strategy interact, testing government and corporate claims against market data and stakeholder responses. He covers housing finance and regulation, including lending structures, tax settings and products such as self-managed super fund home loans, and has reported on South Korean pension funds caught in a National Disability Insurance Scheme housing scam. He writes on housing affordability, investor behaviour, construction titans, emerging residential precincts, train station design, unconventional residential formats, property industry strategy and the business of sport and major events.

Michael Yardney stands out for writing about property investment through long experience, market data, clear strategy and investor psychology. He publishes Property Update, a major property investment and wealth creation platform that reaches millions of readers and makes complex market and money topics easier to use. His real beat is property investment, housing market trends, wealth creation and the habits behind successful investing. He covers interest rates, housing cycles, supply, sentiment, serviceability, yields and price growth, plus practical guides for buyers, landlords and developers. He also writes about money habits, fear, delayed gratification, budgeting, portfolio building and long-term planning. His reporting uses statistics, charts, cycle analysis, interviews and plain explanations, and he turns that analysis into step-by-step guidance for everyday investors.

Mike Taylor is founder, managing editor and publisher of Financial Newswire, shaping its agenda while reporting tightly focused news and analysis across regulation, superannuation and wealth. He covers how supervisors, platforms and large funds interact, tracking enforcement action, APRA performance tests, super fund concentration and the regulator’s resourcing and budget. His advice coverage follows AMP adviser class actions, shifting equity in advice businesses, association mergers and platform pricing changes, treating advisers as commercial actors under regulatory and legal pressure. On funds management he reports on Diversa and Praemium proceedings, ASIC-related actions, managed account growth research and company earnings such as Macquarie’s quarterly results. Across super, platforms, legal actions and association politics he writes direct, procedural stories, emphasising timelines, formal steps, product governance and the financial impact on trustees, licensees and product manufacturers.

Millie Muroi is an economics writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She stands out for reporting how economic forces shape working life and household budgets, tying policy, corporate behaviour and labour relations to lived experience. Her core beat covers workplace issues and the broader economy, with past reporting on banks, financial services, markets and federal economic policy. She writes on workplace discipline, unions and hiring technology, including dismissal disputes, union leadership and AI screening in hiring. She also explains debt, the federal budget, Reserve Bank policy, fuel pricing, vaping rules, housing and everyday costs. Her reporting is direct and practical, with clear explanation, concrete numbers and a focus on how systems affect workers and consumers.

Nadia Budihardjo is a journalist whose reporting shows how money, governance and strategy intersect across business, policy and institutions. She works at Business News, covering local government and general news with a clear focus on the financial dimensions of business events and decisions. Her coverage of business disputes, such as litigation over tax advice involving prominent homebuilding entrepreneurs and an advisory firm, treats lawsuits as business events shaped by exposure, governance and advisory relationships. She reports on corporate expansion and major projects by foregrounding contract values, capital expenditure and strategic bets, from abattoir upgrades to education infrastructure and specialised emergency response services. On the At Close of Business podcast, she uses conversational reporting on succession, leadership and philanthropy to explore ownership transitions, development pipelines, executive careers and long-term funding models. She also covers institutions and policy through formal reporting, lobbying and the financial commitments behind curriculum and regulatory change.

Natasha Rudra is an online editor at the Australian Financial Review whose live digital coverage links financial markets with major news events. She focuses on finance reporting grounded in daily market movement, especially ASX open pieces that connect local trading with Wall Street technology moves and themes like the AI boom. Her work spans markets, corporate developments, international incidents and political disputes, with an emphasis on concise, actionable detail about index direction and sector sentiment. She also produces rolling coverage on airlines, travel warnings, civil unrest and major sporting events, highlighting real-time developments and practical implications. In opinion and analysis pieces at the intersection of law, politics and public accountability, she uses an explanatory, document-driven tone. Her desk-based role combines editorial judgment, digital production and fast, clear publishing.

Nicholas Finch reports on the money side of housing, using real-world stories and sharp numbers to show how property decisions affect households and investors. He covers housing finance, affordability and market movements for realestate.com.au, focusing on risks, trade-offs and market forces rather than simple listing promotion. His beat is clearest in reporting on newly built homes and the financial exposure facing buyers who move too quickly, breaking down how defects, contracts and timing translate into direct monetary losses. He links market data, home price indices and industry reports with buyer behaviour and lived experience, turning technical indicators into plain language. His work on people travelling far from capital cities for affordable land, city-level price shifts, standout listings, heritage properties and bold “housing alternative” projects uses case studies, expert commentary and reader accounts to make housing finance tangible and concrete.

Nick Bruining is a rules-driven retirement and personal finance reporter who focuses on tax, superannuation and government benefits. He works as an independent financial adviser and writes for The Nightly, with a long-running column in a major metropolitan newspaper and contributions to newspapers, television, radio and specialist financial publications. His beat covers Centrelink limits, deeming rates, age pension rules, superannuation, SMSFs, Division 293 tax, early release, the work test, gifts, loans to family, tax return timing and aged care choices. He reports through case studies, reader questions and practical examples, breaking down thresholds, compliance rules and the financial impact of small changes.

Nick Bruining explains the rules that govern household money and retirement, turning complex entitlements and investment structures into straightforward guidance for everyday readers. He is an independent financial adviser and long-running personal finance columnist at The West Australian, with more than three decades in financial advice. Trained as an economist, he strips away jargon and marketing language to show the real implications for savings and income. His beat covers retirement income, age pension rules, superannuation, banking an inheritance, boosting super balances, and keeping pension access. He also writes about everyday investing, private credit, bitcoin, and the risk and regulatory settings around them. His reporting is direct and instructional, often in Q&A form, and aimed at making the rules clear.

Nick Lenaghan covers how money, policy and people reshape the built environment, focusing on property markets that sit between housing need and institutional capital. He is property editor at the Australian Financial Review, overseeing coverage from residential housing and construction to commercial real estate, including office, retail and industrial assets, major ASX-listed developers and real estate investment trusts. He gives sustained attention to mega deals and large-scale capital flows, tracking transactions, valuations and new asset classes such as data centres. His reporting follows house prices, the housing crisis and build-to-rent projects, and how institutional capital is moving into long-term rental housing. He reports on technology and energy-linked assets, citywide forums on post-pandemic urban realities, and the strategies of property leaders and rich listers. His background in newswires and international outlets underpins a straight, news-driven style focused on deals, data and decisions.

Nick Newling links finance, politics and the wider economy, treating markets as the visible output of policy decisions and global power struggles. He reports for The Age and its sister masthead, working across straight news, features and live blogs. His core beat covers markets, currencies, economic shocks, tax and wealth planning, business stories and household finance. He explains how policy shocks, tariffs and political brinkmanship move currencies and equities, and what those shifts mean for families and companies. He charts investor sentiment around tariff pauses, inheritance trusts and “death taxes,” and profiles businesses adapting to sector-wide consolidation. In federal politics coverage across The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, he tracks campaigns, cost-of-living pressures and fiscal promises. He also writes on culture, sport and social trends, using narrative framing, data, expert voices and human detail in clear, accessible reporting.

Nick Whigham leads Yahoo Finance Australia and covers how financial decisions, policy changes and market moves affect people and businesses. He focuses on banking, housing and retirement savings, with a consistent emphasis on everyday financial stress and opportunity. His banking coverage examines shocks and loan risk, including banks whose valuations plunge when loan portfolios sour, and shows how bad debts influence market sentiment and the health of a bank for borrowers and shareholders. His housing reporting centres on auctions, brokers and buyers’ agents, highlighting red flags, hidden fees and tactics that shape the experience of first-time buyers. He also covers superannuation reform such as Payday Super, tying regulatory change to cash flow, employer obligations and retirement balances. A background in news, politics, international issues, consumer affairs, environment and technology informs his finance reporting.

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon is a personal finance writer, author and money educator who specialises in turning complex money rules into clear, practical guidance for households, especially around mortgages, debt and everyday money traps. She writes regular Money Mentor and personal finance columns for The Sydney Morning Herald, blending consumer advocacy with step-by-step advice on loans, offset accounts, rewards schemes, credit cards and buy now pay later products. Her core focus is taking control of a home loan and becoming mortgage-free, using her own experience of paying off her home by 36 to frame strategies and loan structures. She also exposes traps in cards, bank penalties, airline refunds and telco rewards, and covers policy changes to tax and welfare programs such as JobSeeker and JobKeeper. Through school incursions and habit-based articles, she teaches the magic of compounding cash, time and behaviour change.

Noel Towell treats education as an economic system that shapes family budgets and working lives, focusing on the money and policy pressures running through schools, childcare and universities. He reports for The Age on the cost of education, the financial health of providers and the industrial disputes behind classrooms and campuses. His beat covers school fees and private education costs, including private and Catholic schooling charges, statewide median tuition figures, large fee hikes, parent campaigns and major capital projects and their links to federal funding. He applies the same financial lens to childcare economics, provider collapse and insolvency, and to classroom behaviour policies, alternative schooling, workforce strain and early childhood screening plans. He also reports on university wages, backpay and industrial disputes, using detailed pricing and wage data and on-the-ground stories to show everyday effects.

Noel Whittaker is a personal finance columnist at The Age who turns tax, superannuation and retirement rules into clear decisions for individual readers. His real beat is long-term wealth and retirement income, including super, the age pension, investing, trusts, tax, estates, debt, property, diversification and investor behaviour. He focuses on principles, not short-term market moves or stock-picking. He explains how ownership structures, fees, risk, compounding and tax rules affect income and security over time. He is also a bestselling author, known for Making Money Made Simple, Retirement Made Simple and other books on wealth, super, property, wills and taxes. His columns, books and appearances on radio, television and podcasts use reader scenarios, rules of thumb and practical checklists. The tone is direct and instructional, showing readers how to apply financial rules to their own circumstances.

Noel Whittaker is a long-standing personal finance columnist known for turning complex tax, superannuation and retirement rules into clear, actionable guidance for individual investors and savers. He writes weekly personal finance pieces for major newspapers including The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sunday Mail and The Sunday Times, and contributes finance articles to specialist publications aimed at over‑50 audiences. His beat sits at the intersection of tax law and everyday money decisions, with coverage of super balances, trusts, retirement income, investment structures, franking credits, estate planning, aged care fees and later‑life planning. His work focuses on detailed tax topics that directly affect individual investors, using specific policy changes and reader‑style questions to explain what new rules mean in practice. He writes in plain language, avoids political or market commentary, and concentrates on helping readers understand current rules and the options they allow.

Park Eun-jee leads the Business Team at the Korea JoongAng Daily and reports on the overlap of financial regulation, capital markets, and Korea’s technology-heavy corporate sector. She stands out for clear, numbers-driven coverage of how policy, regulation, and board decisions hit real money and volatility. Her beat spans leveraged ETFs, market-stabilizing measures, enforcement actions, semiconductors, capital spending, digital assets, fintech, and financial misconduct. She has covered Samsung Electronics’ and SK hynix’s investment plans, BlackRock’s stake in SK hynix, Bithumb’s 44 billion won error, Kakao Pay’s move into investment products, and the NongHyup embezzlement probe. She also writes on energy and defense, including Kori-1 dismantlement, FA-50 upgrades, and Hanwha Systems’ radar deal. Her reporting is direct, grounded in headline figures, regulator findings, and concrete project scope.

Phillip Coorey connects federal politics to economic outcomes, showing how budgets, tax changes and major policy shifts affect households, businesses and investors. He is political editor at the Australian Financial Review and a two-time winner of the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery excellence. He has covered federal politics since 1998, with a brief spanning policy, elections and the economy. He reports on fiscal policy, regulatory design, productivity, industry support, superannuation, cost-of-living pressures, climate, energy, migration and global affairs. His coverage examines tax, spending, interest rates, wages, investment, market power and industry risk. He follows party strategy, leadership, polling, marginal seats and legislative tactics. His work spans news, analysis, opinion and podcasts. He uses internal party research, economic modelling and responses from business, unions, universities and community groups.

Ross Gittins is a long-running economic columnist and economics editor known for explaining economic policy and the broader economy in plain language. He holds the role of economics editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and has written economic commentary there since the 1970s, filing multiple columns a week since 1978. His columns, also published in The Age and other public policy platforms, make complex economic ideas accessible and relevant to everyday life. He covers public finance, government budgets, tax, economic cycles, inflation and living costs, connecting macroeconomic debates to household outcomes. He sets policy in political context, uses data and empirical evidence, and questions whether economic frameworks give enough weight to fairness and ethics. His work is noted for independence, wit, close scrutiny of statistics and foregrounding behavioural insights and human wellbeing, and has earned journalism and academic honours, books and public forum appearances.

Ryan Cropp covers how energy policy, climate commitments and the financial architecture of the power system interact, with a distinctive focus on data centres as a new source of grid demand and a test of industry responsibility for decarbonising power. He is an energy and climate reporter for The Australian Financial Review, concentrating on policy, regulation and system-level change. His beat includes renewable energy schemes, taxation and incentives, power markets, fuel shortages, reliability, gas reservation policy, pipeline capacity and the environmental and political consequences of projects. He reports on planning and approvals bottlenecks, stress points in electricity and fuel markets, and the fallout from incidents such as wildlife deaths at wind farms. A researcher and author, including a nationally recognised biography of Donald Horne, he brings long-form perspective and detailed research to technical, politically informed coverage.

Sam Buckingham-Jones follows the money, power and regulation behind media, marketing and telecommunications. He is the media and marketing reporter at The Australian Financial Review, writing news, analysis and features on broadcasters, streaming, advertising, digital platforms and telcos. He covers corporate strategy, ownership, debt, regulation, audience behaviour and the value of news, with notable work on Foxtel’s streaming pressures, Seven’s leadership, Nine’s strategic review, Rupert Murdoch’s control battle and Google’s news payments. He also reports on gambling advertising, sports rights and wagering, including the NRL’s billion-dollar expansion plans. His profiles of Ita Buttrose, Kim Williams, Bruce McWilliam and Kyle Sandilands examine leadership, governance, contracts, ratings and brand value. He reports through specific deals, boardroom decisions, lobbying and the people behind them, showing how policy and strategy affect revenue, profitability and influence.

Sarah Danckert is an investigative business reporter who follows money where it collides with law, regulation and power, with a focus on finance and corporate misconduct for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. She covers the points where companies, regulators, courts and political actors meet, and where those clashes expose investors, customers and workers. Her beat includes corporate governance failures, casinos and listed technology companies, cyberattacks on super funds, bitcoin scheme collapses, banking scandals and class actions. She reports inquiries into casino probity, links between corporate Australia and organised crime, and disputes involving wealthy investors, unions, major projects and political donations. Since 2015 she has covered business and finance for these mastheads, producing long-form, evidence-heavy news and investigations that use documents, inquiries and litigation to show how boardroom and cabinet decisions flow through to households and retirement savings.

Sarah Megginson focuses on how cost-of-living pressure shows up in everyday money decisions and turns it into practical steps for households. She is a personal finance expert and media spokesperson at Finder, covering savings, household budgets and family finance with a focus on what people can realistically do. Her reporting centres on household trade-offs across family, housing and consumer spending, using survey data and case studies to show how many people are affected and what behaviours can change their situation. She tracks extreme shopping habits, delayed life milestones and hip-pocket issues around elections, linking everyday choices to inflation, wage stagnation and financial wellbeing. She also covers savings behaviour, interest rates, financial safety nets, unused gift cards and tax-time checks through structured, plain-language guides. Her work draws on more than 20 years in property, finance and investment journalism, including editing specialist housing and mortgage titles and ghost-writing in the money space.

Sarah Orr links economic news and market changes directly to household budgets, turning rate moves, price shifts and insurance trends into clear, practical stories. She writes news and analysis for Compare the Market, focusing on financial literacy and helping people make informed money choices. Her reporting spans interest rates, mortgage stress and relief, borrowing capacity, energy bills, insurance premiums and broader cost-of-living pressure. She explains how central bank decisions change monthly repayments and strip borrowing power, and uses electricity market changes to show how supply charge increases or rare price falls hit annual bills. She covers health, home and travel insurance costs, highlighting how premium changes and policy design affect access to care and financial security. Her work relies on Compare the Market data, scenario modelling and comparison tables, with a focus on clear, numerate storytelling about everyday expenses.

Sarah Petty is a property reporter at the Australian Financial Review who stands out for linking property markets to money, policy and everyday housing outcomes. She covers residential and commercial real estate, including auction clearance rates, supply bottlenecks, interest rates, housing cycles, seller tactics, build-to-rent, investment strategies and major property portfolios. Her reporting also examines unbuilt homes, development pipelines, rental practices, mortgage costs and the risks faced by residents after emergencies. She uses live market indicators, concrete case studies, exclusive deals and expert voices to explain broader trends. Her work has included reporting on a sports club’s apartment acquisition, large apartment developments and approved homes that remain unbuilt. She moderates and contributes to Australian Financial Review Property Summit panels on build-to-rent and housing investment.

Sarah Sharples is investigations editor at News.com.au, focusing on how scams, hacks and corporate decisions affect ordinary people. She works where money, technology and contract terms meet, showing what happens when opaque systems go wrong. With more than 15 years’ experience in finance, business, news and politics, she leads long-form investigations and daily coverage. Her reporting covers consumer finance, data breaches, identity theft, restructures, payouts and shortfalls for workers and customers. She examines scams, aggressive sales tactics and online harms through detailed case studies and first-hand accounts. A major strand of her work looks at technology platforms, automated systems and users’ limited recourse. She also reports on corporate structures, legal frameworks and public funds. She was News.com.au’s first investigations editor and her People Before Profit series on scams was nominated for Outstanding Finance Reporting at the 2025 Kennedy Awards.

Satish Ranchhod is a senior economist at Westpac IQ who treats inflation as a continuous, data‑rich process rather than an occasional headline topic. He specialises in New Zealand inflation and domestic demand, turning shifts in prices, activity and business sentiment into clear, timely analysis for a broad economic audience. His real beat is the New Zealand macro economy, with a focus on inflation dynamics, domestic demand conditions and the drivers and trajectory of consumer prices. Much of his work appears in the “First impressions” series, which offers fast reads on data releases such as building work, business confidence, retail trade, selected prices and quarterly CPI. He writes in a concise, technical, data‑driven style, using charts, survey evidence and firm feedback to link official data to the economic cycle and the policy path.

Simon Thomsen stands out for treating startup finance as part of a wider system of policy, markets and founder experience. He edits Startup Daily and hosts its show on ausbiz, where he covers funding rounds, investor activity and the money side of building new ventures across the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem. His reporting tracks big raises, venture capital advice and sectors such as fintech, agritech and spacetech, while also examining programs like AO StartUps and the government and economic forces shaping startup growth. He works across written, TV and podcast formats, and his interviews with founders, CEOs, investors and experts focus on leadership, resilience and mental health as much as capital and scale.

Tamika Seeto is a finance reporter who links everyday money decisions with corporate conduct and policy settings, showing how they play out in real life. She reports for Yahoo Finance Australia, with a beat spanning personal finance, cost-of-living pressure, consumer rights, work and careers. Her coverage grew from earlier work at a financial comparison outlet, giving her a base in products, pricing and household budgeting. She focuses on rising grocery and fuel costs, supermarket pricing and loyalty schemes, scams and bank failures, “junk” warranties, superannuation shifts, tax changes and retirement mistakes. She profiles unconventional income and career moves as financial choices, not lifestyle curiosities. Across all these topics, she uses case studies, quotes, expert input and clear sums to explain where households, workers and consumers are losing or saving money and why.

Teppei Ino is Tokyo Head of Global Markets Research at MUFG Research, specialising in foreign exchange strategy with a focused emphasis on the Japanese yen and USD/JPY. He connects day to day yen moves with central bank policy and geopolitical developments, giving a clear line from events to currency levels. His core beat is the yen, using USD/JPY as the main lens, with recurring JPY Weekly and JPY Monthly reports that track spot levels around ranges such as 159–160 and spell out intervention risk, energy imports, trade flows and BoJ rate decisions. He builds structured forecasts with explicit interest rate assumptions and quarter ahead levels for DXY, USD/JPY, EUR/JPY and other major pairs, and writes Monthly Foreign Exchange Outlooks, daily FX snapshots and shorter USD notes. His writing is direct and functional, grounded in precise levels, positioning data and clear trading ranges.

Them Lam is a mortgage distribution executive who writes for brokers on how to turn market and regulatory shifts into day-to-day operational decisions. He contributes practitioner analysis to The Adviser, drawing on more than 25 years in financial services and a long tenure working with mortgage brokerages through Australian Finance Group. His beat sits where policy settings, lender appetite and broker workflow meet, with particular depth on SMSF lending changes, brokerage setup, workflow and data-driven performance. His most prominent piece dissects the ban on new residential LRBAs in SMSFs and the hard 10 August 2026 contracting deadline, treating it as an immediate pipeline and advice issue for brokers. Across guides on starting and growing brokerages, workflow optimisation and using analytics to unlock competitive advantage, he writes in a direct, operational tone from an aggregator executive vantage point.

Tom Crowley is a federal political reporter for ABC News who connects federal politics with the economic structures underneath, focusing on where politics, budgets and long-term pressures meet. He reports from the ABC Parliament House bureau on the intersection of federal politics and economic policy, covering budgets, tax changes, housing, migration and interest rates with a focus on political stakes around economic reform. His work often returns to budgets and the wealth gap, Western Australia’s GST deal, and linked structural pressures in housing and migration. He examines accountability for interest rate moves and tax changes, asking who should be blamed or credited. Crowley brings experience as an economist at the federal Treasury and the Grattan Institute, and as a political journalist at The Daily Aus. He appears across ABC platforms in written analysis, radio and podcasts, using interviews, explainers and clear language.

Tom Pullar-Strecker is a senior business and economics journalist at The Post who specialises in complex economic, regulatory and infrastructure stories that need careful explanation. He reports at the intersection of economics, technology and public policy, focusing on economic policy, energy markets, major infrastructure projects and their effects on households and businesses. A recurring strand of his work is the electricity sector, power prices and consumer impacts, including regulator inquiries, profit levels and pumped hydro schemes such as Lake Onslow, as well as the growth of data centres. He closely follows regulation, legislation and political economy, health and safety law, infant formula and food safety rules, competition in supermarket markets, central bank decisions, accident compensation schemes and trade agreements. His method is document-driven, using official papers, regulator reports and information access laws, grounded in a background editing an information technology section.

Tom Stelzer turns professional investing insight into clear, practical stories for everyday investors, with a consistent focus on ASX-listed equities and portfolio strategy. He is an editor and writer at Livewire Markets, specialising in investing and personal finance and hosting regular video and written features on market themes. He scripts and hosts the Buy Hold Sell series, framing ASX stock calls through fund manager interviews, valuation-driven analysis and sports analogies. His work spans stock selection wires, ASX 200 data pieces, valuation and sentiment polls, and macro features on cycles, bubbles, gold and central bank events. He also produces age-based guides for younger investors that explain asset allocation, compounding and portfolio habits. With around a decade in investing and personal finance plus earlier work on film, lifestyle and sport, he blends technical rigour with simple language and clear hooks.

Wayne Cole is distinct for linking Asia’s market moves to the day ahead in Europe and global markets. He is chief correspondent at Reuters, covering currencies, bonds, equities and commodities through a macro and policy lens. His real beat is how interest-rate expectations, yield curves and risk sentiment shape markets. He tracks the Australian and New Zealand dollars and rates, including the effect of yield spreads, inflation, jobs, housing and central bank decisions. He reports on Asian equities, bonds, oil, gold and copper, with attention to technology, growth and risk sentiment. He also covers global inflation, central banks and bond-market pricing. In his “Morning Bid” notes, he maps overnight Asian moves to European and U.S. openings, highlighting data, speeches and policy events that could shift market pricing.

Zhou Lanxu reports on how China’s monetary and regulatory decisions move markets, currencies and emerging growth sectors, grounding each story in official data and market detail. She covers business and finance for China Daily, focusing on China’s economy and capital markets, a role she has held since 2018. Her core beat follows the People’s Bank of China, monetary policy, gold reserves, interest rate reform and liquidity tools, tying policy signals to investor sentiment and real-economy indicators. She also reports on capital markets, securities regulation, brokerage models, cross-border flows, foreign exchange and renminbi positioning. Her work tracks macroeconomic indicators, new growth drivers, innovation stories such as “physical AI,” and the financial talent that underpins markets. Across topics, she anchors coverage in concrete data, institutional moves and how decisions shape conditions for investors and the wider economy.