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Antony Dapiran

Antony Dapiran is a Hong Kong-based writer and lawyer, and the author of two books, including City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong which was long-listed for the Walkley …

Polly Simons

Writer, critic and editor with more than 10 years of experience writing for publications including Australian Book Review, The Daily Telegraph, The Australian and Time Out (Sydney and Melbourne).Now a …

Cherie Gilmour

Cindy Fan

I'm a travel writer with a passion and skill for both storytelling and crafting carefully researched guides. A Laos and Vietnam expert, I’ve been writing travel guides professionally since 2014. …

Alexandra Carlton

Quincy Malesovas

Quincy is a writer based in Melbourne and bred in the US. She specialises in SEO-driven website copy, corporate blogs, food journalism and personal narrative. Her work can be found …

Latest Articles

‘If I go back they will kill me’

A Saudi woman attempting to flee from her “abusive” family and seek asylum in Australia has reportedly been forcibly returned to Riyadh after being gagged, tied with duct tape and wrapped in a sheet by two uncles while on a stopover in the Philippines. Dina Ali Lasloom, 24, a Saudi …

By Jacob Atkins
22nd June 2025 • The Australian

How to channel Jackie Onassis on the Athenian Riviera

By Alexandra Carlton
17th January 2025 • The Australian

The king of cosy crime expands his empire

I chat to Richard Osman about his new series.

By Kerry Parnell
25th September 2024 • The Australian

Spice of Life

Get a taste for the West Indies on a new ocean yacht Twelve years of studying French at school has prepared me for this moment.

By Cindy Fan
2nd March 2024 • The Australian

Richard Osman interview

I chat to the Thursday author for The Australian

By Kerry Parnell
23rd September 2023 • The Australian

Three wildly spontaneous train journeys from Zurich

Coming to the station without a plan feels like a sin. Planning and preparation are tenets of Swiss culture, but the irony is that micromanaging is virtually unnecessary. When I enter a destination into my Swiss railway app, all upcoming departures and routes appear, which may include trains, buses, cable …

By Cindy Fan
16th August 2023 • The Australian

Single malts, triple the enjoyment

In the world of alcohol, trends come and go but whisky (or in Ireland, whiskey) is a rare exception, holding a timeless appeal that spans palates and generations. Seamus Carroll, buyer at The Whisky Club, knows this first-hand. “I fell in love with whisky the same way so many people …

By Quincy Malesovas
28th September 2022 • The Australian

Top of the Morning

Breakfast is a decadent affair at these international venues ALMU, OAXACA, MEXICO In a rustic, open-air restaurant set within an endemic plant nursery in the desert town of San Martín Tilcajete, 45 minutes from Oaxaca City, an army of sturdy women prepare morning spreads based on what’s fresh from local …

By Cindy Fan
19th September 2022 • The Australian

A river for all seasons

It’s summertime in Bern, capital of Switzerland. I’ve joined hundreds of people swimming down the frigid Aare (pronounced Ar-reh) River and we’re all whooping and laughing like children.The scenario is inconceivable in many ways. First, I’ve voluntarily jumped into 19C water. Though this is considered warm by Aare standards, it …

By Cindy Fan
17th July 2022 • The Australian

Friends in High Places: Jasper Canada

By Alexandra Carlton
5th July 2022 • The Australian

Best Small Hotels

Casa Puuc, Merida, Yucutan, Mexico In Merida’s historic García Gineres neighbourhood, furniture dealer Claudia Fernandez has transformed a 1914 house into an ethereal five-bedroom hotel.

By Cindy Fan
30th April 2022 • The Australian

Where Art Thou

A guide to international masterpieces Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt (1907), Neue Galerie New York The dazzling portrait of the wife of a wealthy Jewish industrialist is a masterpiece of Klimt’s “golden phase”. The luminous gold leaf evokes religious iconography, while the motifs on her dress are …

By Cindy Fan
2nd April 2022 • The Australian

My Literary Fairy Godmother

By Cherie Gilmour
4th December 2021 • The Australian

Tiny Houses Bring Comfort and Joy

By Alexandra Carlton
29th August 2021 • The Australian

What To Do In the Huon Valley

By Alexandra Carlton
23rd April 2021 • The Australian

Fab 4: Canberra Wineries

By Alexandra Carlton
27th March 2021 • The Australian

Catty passengers high in the sky

Guest columnist It doesn’t take long for the meowing to draw surprised and grumpy stares from my fellow passengers.I have done everything right to prepare my cat, Chepe, for this flight. I scoured the internet for advice and the vet assured me everything would be fine.

By Cindy Fan
9th November 2019 • The Australian

On a Cape Crusade

Twists and turns on the road in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia I set out from Baddeck at daybreak and it isn’t long before I am greeted with a vista over the sea. Hewn into the hillside, the road winds north along the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island.

By Cindy Fan
20th July 2019 • The Australian

Into the Melting Pot

A feast down memory lane in Taipei Thirty years ago, if you told my moth- er that one day I would be skipping towards Taipei’s Raohe Night Market, she wouldn’t have believed you. Yet here I am, giddy about the feast to come.

By Cindy Fan
13th April 2019 • The Australian

Hot Properties

Our favourite small hotels across Asia MANGO BAY RESORT, PHU QUOC ISLAND, VIETNAM This eco-conscious hideaway offers a rare experience not found elsewhere on Vietnam’s largest island.

By Cindy Fan
16th February 2019 • The Australian

The Bear Necessities

Care and Share: Helping hands for rescued bears in Cambodia and Laos

By Cindy Fan
12th January 2019 • The Australian

If you go down to the woods

A solitary trek in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park has its ups and downs. Maybe I’m batty, but it takes me until the fourth kilometre, when I discover the leech latched on to my leg, to understand why my co-workers had asked, “But why are you going alone?”

By Cindy Fan
22nd July 2017 • The Australian

End of the two-state solution?

By Jacob Atkins
1st July 2017 • The Australian

Swiss villages Muhlebach and Ernen are a breath of fresh mountain air

The Swiss know a thing or two about moving up, down, through and around mountains, and I have to trust that their expertise includes modern bridge construction. But for 280m, a single layer of wooden planks on this painfully simple-looking, swinging, swaying contraption is all that keeps me from a …

By Cindy Fan
1st October 2016 • The Australian

Laos: Nam Nern Night Safari helps tigers back from the brink

A community-based initiative in Laos aims to save tigers The jungle is not my friend. There is no logical explanation why, in a group of many, I will be the only one treated as a blood buffet by mosquitoes, leeches and the rest of Mother Nature’s posse of vampires. Yet …

By Cindy Fan
14th May 2016 • The Australian

Boogie woogie workouts

“Shake it, Helen,” one squawked manically at her friend as a muzak cover version of Shakira bounced around the Summer Hill Community Centre in Sydney. It was a Zumba class, a cocktail of Latin dance styles: mambo and merengue shaken with salsa and samba. With more than 12 million devotees, …

By Gina Rushton
14th January 2016 • The Australian

Foreign investors are overlooking a quiet Chinese revolution

The business community has misunderstood the importance of the "negative list" system being applied in China's new Free Trade Zones.

By Antony Dapiran
27th March 2015 • The Australian

Green light flashes for foreign investment in China

China has announced a major overhaul of its foreign investment regime, in what will amount to the single largest reform to foreign investment in China since the beginning of the "opening and reform" era over thirty years ago.

By Antony Dapiran
22nd January 2015 • The Australian

Mixed legacy for Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement

While protesters' demands have not been met, their voices have been heard clearly, not just by Beijing, but by each other.

By Antony Dapiran
15th December 2014 • The Australian

Taiwanese voters' challenge to Beijing

The view that the Taiwanese election results were primarily a result of the "China factor" has gotten a lot of play in the media, but it's not right.

By Antony Dapiran
3rd December 2014 • The Australian