MEET THE TEAM
Eric Johnston
Editor
Eric Johnston joined The Australian in July 2014. Previously he was the business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, overseeing award-winning business coverage and driving investigative reporting. He also has worked at The AFR and as a correspondent with Dow Jones, where his stories appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
John Durie
Senior Writer/Columnist
John Durie is the paper's senior business commentator. He has been a business reporter for 34 years including 13 as Chanticleer Columnist for the AFR, four years as business columnist for the New York Post and stints in Paris and New York after starting his career in the Canberra Press Gallery in 1980. John won last year's News Business Journalist of the Year Award.
Adam Creighton
Economics Correspondent
Adam Creighton has been The Australian's Economics Correspondent since 2012. Before that he worked for a classically liberal think tank and as an economic adviser for the federal Leader of the Opposition. He covers mainly domestic economic news for the paper, and writes a Friday column and features on economics and public policy.
Michael Bennet
Reporter
Michael Bennet is a seasoned journalist covering financial services in Sydney with a focus on banking. He began his career in Perth where he covered a range of industries including mining, construction and contractors.
Darren Davidson
Media Editor
Darren Davidson is The Australian's media editor. He has worked for several British newspapers and magazines. He began working part-time on a local London newspaper aged 14, and holds a BA [Hons] in History.
Paul Garvey
Resources Reporter
Paul Garvey has been writing about the resources industry for more than 14 years. Prior to joining The Australian's Perth bureau, he spent two years writing for the paper out of Hong Kong. He has also been a mining and oil and gas reporter for the Australian Financial Review, as well as an editor of the paper's Street Talk section.
Tim Boreham
Criterion Columnist
Tim Boreham has had 34 years' experience in journalism, 30 as a business reporter on publications including the Melbourne Herald and Business Review Weekly. He has been a business reporter for The Australian for 19 years, mainly covering banking and writing the Criterion investment column. Over time he has covered most sectors including resources, retailing, biotechnology, materials, regulatory affairs, taxation and professional services.
Damon Kitney
Victorian Business Editor
Damon Kitney has spent almost two decades in financial journalism, including 16 years at The Australian Financial Review in a variety of writing and editing roles in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Perth, including 5 years as a deputy editor of the newspaper
Matt Chambers
Resources Reporter
Matt Chambers has been covering the resources industry since taking a job at the Kalgoorlie Miner newspaper in WA in 2002 and quickly working out what the most important round was. After covering mining and energy with Bloomberg News and Dow Jones, including stints in New York and Dubai that saw his work regularly appear in the Wall Street Journal and Barron's, Chambers joined The Australian in Melbourne in 2007.
Glenda Korporaal
Senior Journalist
Glenda Korporaal has been covering business and finance in Australia and around the world for more than thirty years. She has worked in Sydney, Canberra, Washington, New York, London, Hong Kong and Singapore and has interviewed many of Australia's top business executives. Her career has included stints as deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review and business editor for The Bulletin magazine. She is currently editor of The Deal magazine, the Australian's monthly business magazine, and a columnist for the Australian's business section.
Sarah Danckert
Property Reporter
Sarah Danckert has been covering commercial property and business from The Australian's Melbourne bureau since 2011. Before joining The Australian, Sarah was editor of Business Spectator and has worked at Australian Associated Press.
Mitchell Bingemann
Reporter
Mitchell Bingemann has spent the past decade reporting on the happenings of the technology and telecommunications sectors in Australia. He joined the The Australian in July 2008 as part of the paper's award winning IT section before taking up the business telecommunications round in 2009. He was awarded the best news journalist of 2010 at the Microsoft IT Journalism Awards for a series of articles detailing movements in the telecommunications sector and investigations into the National Broadband Network.
David Rogers
Business Reporter
David Rogers is a 27-year veteran of the financial markets, having worked for Standard & Poor's, Thomson Financial, BridgeNews, Dow Jones Newswires, Tolhurst Noall and The Wall Street Journal. David has extensive real-time reporting experience in economics, foreign exchange, equities, commodities and bonds. He is a qualified technical analyst and equities adviser.
Barry Fitzgerald
Resources Editor
Barry FitzGerald has covered the resources industry for 30 years. He started his career as a copy boy at the then Suns News Pictorial and went on to have stints elsewhere, including two years at The Australian from 1985-1987. He returned to The Australian in early 2012. The inaugural winner of the Diggers & Dealers Media Award in 2003, Barry is a committee member of the Melbourne Mining Club, a non-profit organisation formed to foster industry debate.
Andrew White
Associate Editor
Andrew White is an associate editor of The Australian wrting news, features and commentary across business. He has been a correspondent, columnist and business editor at both The Australian and the Australian Financial Review and won the Walkley award for Business Journalism in 2008 for the series Inside Job: Who killed Opes Prime.
Chris Kohler
Producer, BusinessNow Editor
Chris Kohler is a producer and editor of the BusinessNow blog. Before coming to The Australian Chris Kohler worked at Business Spectator, where he launched Family Business Magazine and worked on the breaking news desk. Before starting at Business Spectator Chris was studying a masters in international relations and masters in journalism.
Turi Condon
Property Editor
Turi Condon is The Australian's Property Editor. In 2003 Turi launched The Australian's commercial property section, Primespace, and has written widely across the newspaper on commercial and residential property, and related economic issues. Turi has spent 20 years as a property and business Reporter, and before joining The Australian was the Property Editor and Sydney Bureau Chief for BRW magazine, and was a Deputy Property Editor for the Australian Financial Review. Turi appears regularly as a commentator on the Sky News Business channel.
Leo Shanahan
Reporter
Leo Shanahan is based in The Australian’s Sydney bureau and currently writes about business legal disputes, white collar crime and regulatory policy for news and business. He began his journalistic career at The Age as a general reporter in Melbourne and then moved to The Age’s Canberra press gallery bureau where he worked as a political correspondent. He was a finalist in the 2013 NSW Journalism Awards for excellence in financial journalism for his work at The Australian.
Richard Gluyas
Business Correspondent
Richard Gluyas has more than 25 years of experience reporting on the nation's top corporates and business identities. He is a former Melbourne business editor and is now Business Correspondent for The Australian.
Sarah-Jane Tasker
Reporter
Sarah-Jane Tasker has been a journalist for more than 17 years, having started her career on The Sunday Times in Perth. Her previous roles include deputy editor of the Kalgoorlie Miner in regional Western Australia and deputy editor of a financial magazine in London. She has been a senior resources writer at The Australian for more than six years.
Eli Greenblat
Reporter
Eli Greenblat began his business journalism career with The Age newspaper in 1998, and since then has also worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review covering a range of sectors across the economy and stockmarket. He has covered corporate rounds such as telecommunications, health, biotechnology, financial services, property and more recently retail and beverages. He is currently The Australian newspapers' senior business reporter responsible for covering retail and beverages.
Ben Butler
Columnist
Margin Call columnist Ben Butler has covered everything from tractors to fashion to corporate collapses. He has worked for the Herald Sun and, most recently, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, where he was a senior business reporter.
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Eric Johnston
Editor
Sydney Bureau, Australia
Eric Johnston joined The Australian in July 2014. Previously he was the business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, overseeing award-winning business coverage and driving investigative reporting. He also has worked at The AFR and as a correspondent with Dow Jones, where his stories appeared in The Wall Street Journal. View all our Business columnists
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