Rick Feneley
Rick Feneley is a news and features writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. His column, Then Again, appears on Saturdays. He was the paper's long-term night editor before returning to writing in late 2008.
David Stratton oblivious he's been cast as a spy: ASIO's vault shows its odd choice of surveillance targets
Rick Feneley A young and suave David Stratton visits the Soviet embassy in Canberra. Little does he know, but the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is watching and records the occasion with this...
Film buff David Stratton's starring role on ASIO spy cam
Rick Feneley A young David Stratton visits the Soviet embassy in Canberra, blissfully unaware that Australia's spy service is watching and snapping a photo.
ASIO files: That looks suspicious, doesn't it?
Rick Feneley The plot to murder a federal minister at a Sydney television studio is one of the nation's great untold stories. It went like this.
Pink Polar Expedition: Geoff Wilson 107 kilometres away from Antarctica goal
Rick Feneley A satellite snapshot of Geoff Wilson any time in the past six weeks might have shown a lone man on skis crossing the vast expanse of Antarctica; a luridly coloured kite, to which he is tethered,...
Matt Joyce returns to Melbourne from Dubai after Sunland fraud case
Rick Feneley, Nick Toscano After five years trapped in Dubai on fraud charges, Matt Joyce has flown home with his surfboard - itching for a wave - but also to confront questions about millions paid into a Channel Islands bank...
Star harness racer Gregs Bennett pleads not guilty to bribery charges
Rick Feneley Two allegedly corrupt racing stewards used prepaid mobile phones, registered under fictitious names, to discuss the fixing of races, a court has heard.
They were numbers; now they have voices
Rick Feneley 'We are boys among men,'' says Uncle Manuel Ebsworth. ''We may be old men now, but we still think of each other as boys.
Nightmare about to end but it leaves a bitter legacy
Rick Feneley When Ray Lee died at 74, poor and alone in his public housing flat in Sydney, he left behind some newspaper clippings on the kitchen bench.
Dubai property duo: Curtain about to come down on a nightmare that would enthral Hollywood
Rick Feneley If the story of Matt Joyce and Marcus Lee and their families were to be made into a film - and this battle of innocent men falsely accused has all the ingredients - it might be called Enduring Love,...
Sunland two win appeals after five-year battle
Rick Feneley Australians Matt Joyce and Marcus Lee and their families should soon be free to return home from Dubai after both won stunning appeal cases on Sunday - a likely conclusion to their battle to prove...
Mass evacuations feared as weather worsens
Judith Whelan and Rick Feneley Hundreds of thousands of people west of Sydney could be confronted by a growing bushfire calamity, with the entire Blue Mountains and the suburbs of Penrith and Richmond in danger of burning over the...
Families' unimaginable grief seared into the landscape
Rick Feneley There is no measuring the relativities of grief that has struck one street in the Blue Mountains town of Winmalee, where 16 houses were razed, but the heartbreak of the Love family is immense.
Croc victim Sean Cole's body found in Mary River
Rick Feneley The body of a 26-year-old man attacked by a crocodile in the Northern Territory has been found in the Mary River.
Friendly rivalry name of game in archbishop race
Esther Han, Rick Feneley If you scanned Anglican websites you'd be forgiven for thinking Bishop Glenn Davies and Canon Rick Smith were combatants in a title fight to become the 12th Anglican Archbishop of Sydney.
The tides of political change leave asylum couple worlds apart
Rory Callinan and Rick Feneley, Manus Island First the people smugglers separated husband and wife. Now Kevin Rudd's Papua New Guinea solution has made it final.
Once an Olympic champion, a hero becomes mortal
Rick Feneley The Olympic medallist Scott Miller once rubbed shoulders with James Packer and shock jock Alan Jones. Now he's behind bars.
Gillard makes plea with Dubai ruler to free Australians
Rick Feneley Julia Gillard has appealed directly to Dubai’s ruler to end the 4 1/2 year ordeal of Australian man Marcus Lee and his wife, in the hope the emirate’s prosecutors will drop an appeal against his...
Acquitted executive, wife trapped in Dubai as prosecutors lodge appeal
Rick Feneley An Australian executive acquitted of fraud-related charges in Dubai has been rocked by the news that prosecutors will appeal against the verdict.
Ancient wisdom sends message across the world
Rick Feneley First Nations leaders from Canada have found a potential model for their people's aspirations - and it comes from deep in Arnhem Land. Rick Feneley travelled with them.
Dubai jails Australian for 10 years over fraud charges
Rick Feneley, Ben Butler An Australian executive has been sentenced to 10 years jail in Dubai but his junior colleague acquitted in a spectacular climax to their four-year battle against property fraud charges.
