Fiona has written and edited travel for The Australian Financial Review since 2012, and is a respected commentator on the Australian tourism industry.  Before joining the Financial Review, she was deputy editor at Traveller (The Sydney Morning Herald & The Age), and edited Sunday Life, published in The Sun-Herald. She's interviewed some of the world's most high-profile tourism leaders and hoteliers, including Francis Ford Coppola, Robert de Niro, Sir Rocco Forte and Kit Kemp, plus Tourism Australia ambassadors Kylie Minogue and Chris Hemsworth. Previously she worked for ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME magazine and The Australian.

Lauren Sams is the fashion editor at The Australian Financial Review, where she writes for the newspaper, the weekly supplement Life & Leisure and a monthly column for The Australian Financial Review Magazine. She is the editor of Spend.

Tony is a successful author and journalist based in Sydney. He brings decades of experience to the beat, writing about technology, craftsmanship, heritage, design, engineering and every other aspect of modern luxury motoring. Tony also writes for The Australian Financial Review Magazine and edits its Machine technology insert.

Max is the only Australian writer to have won the prestigious international André Simon Award for best drinks writing twice – once in 1999 for his first book, Red and White, Wine Made Simple, and again in 2020 for his most recent book, Intoxicating, ten drinks that shaped Australia. He writes regular columns for Life & Leisure and The Australian Financial Review Magazine.

Over his career, John Davidson has been a humourist, foreign correspondent, investigative reporter, technology reporter and software coder. He now brings all those skills to bear reviewing gadgets every week. It’s demanding work, but someone has to do it.

Dan is an accomplished luxury-lifestyle journalist who has lived in Oxford, New York and Melbourne. Now based in Sydney, he uses the networks he has developed around the world to report on the latest developments in design, fine art, fashion and travel. Since joining the Life & Leisure team in 2014, he has ridden helicopters over crocodile-infested waters, handled some of the world's most valuable gems and spent time with Oscar-winning actors. Internationally, his work has appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times and Condé Nast Traveller.

Michael is an award-winning business writer who looks after the Financial Review Rich Lists, but also has a passion for the arts and the stories of the people who make them. He has interviewed everyone from Del Kathryn Barton to Dionne Warwick.

The author of 16 cookbooks, Jill was the cookery editor of The Times in London for seven years, and winner of the British Cookery Journalist of the Year Award.  She now writes for Life & Leisure, authoring its popular Chef on Chef interview series, The Australian Financial Review Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald and Good Weekend. A former editor of the Good Food Guide, she also pens a weekly newsletter called Jill Dupleix Eats, and serves on the board of the National Indigenous Culinary Institute.

Necia writes about food, restaurants and food travel. She brings decades of experience as a print media journalist to the role and is a former co-editor of The Age Good Food Guide (2007-2009). Her other job is as associate producer on a global food TV series, Dining at the World’s Best, airing in 2022.

Bani has been described as “the most widely recognised watch authority in Australia”. As watch editor of The Australian Financial Review, covers all things horological for AFR Magazine and Life & Leisure. A former creative director (McCann, Grey) and founder of an award-winning advertising agency (McSpedden Carey) with author Peter Carey, he is an academy member of the Grand Prix D’Horlogerie de Geneve, watchmaking’s Oscars.

When the borders reopen, Ute Junker will be ready. The globetrotting travel writer has stayed in touch with her unparalleled network of industry contacts throughout the pandemic, and has the inside word on how the world’s luxury hoteliers and operators are approaching post-COVID travel. In Australia she writes for Life & Leisure and Traveller in The Sydney Morning Herald; internationally, she contributes to publications including The South China Morning Post, T Magazine and Conde Nast Traveller UK.

After a distinguished editorial career in Paris, Stephen writes on art, architecture and design for Life & Leisure and The Australian Financial Review Magazine. He is the creative director of Sydney Design Week and advises several cultural institutions, including the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.