Chrissie Goldrick

Sydney

Editor-in-Chief at Australian Geographic

Editor-in-Chief, Australian Geographic

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Reaching the summit: how Australia united to save the bilby

1 week ago | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick

It’s almost Easter and Kevin Bradley is trapped on high ground surrounded by slow-moving floodwaters in Currawinya National Park in remote southwestern Queensland. The inundation has, in part, resulted from Cyclone Alfred. This once-in-a-generation weather event hit the Queensland and northern NSW coasts a month earlier during the first week of March 2025.
Meet the 2024 Adventurer of the Year Awardees - Australian Geographic

Dec 10, 2024 | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick

Between them, the 2024 cohort of adventure awardees have walked, cycled, rowed and climbed their way into the annals of Australian Geographic Society history. They have each undertaken journeys of discovery through remote lands, little-known cultures and unfamiliar ways of life that have deepened their understanding of the interconnectedness of people, the value of nature and the resilience of the human spirit.
Winners: Australian Geographic Society's Awards for Nature 2024

Oct 17, 2024 | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick

Earlier this year, we were excited to launch the Australian Geographic Awards for Nature, our new flagship conservation program. This awards program has replaced the former grants process that delivered funds – capped at $5000 each – to multiple conservation and adventure projects. To increase the conservation impact of the Australian Geographic Society, the Awards for Nature will now provide $100,000 in tiered funding to three selected projects.
The Australian woman walking the length of the Americas

Sep 10, 2024 | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick

For someone who’s spent much of the past seven years alone, Lucy Barnard is clearly a people person. It’s not just her easygoing charm that shines through the instant you start a conversation with her. It’s how she recounts the story of her incredible trek.
AG Society Update: Wingthreads mission complete- Australian Geographic

May 29, 2024 | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick |Candice Marshall

The Australian Geographic Society-sponsored journey, described by Amellia as a creative flying quest that aims to foster stewardship of wetland ecosystems, was inspired by the epic migrations of the shorebirds that fly from Australia to Siberia every year to breed – a total round trip of 25,000km. Migratory shorebirds are among the most endangered groups of birds on the planet, mostly due to habitat loss along their migration path known as the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
World-beater solo yachtswoman Lisa Blair racks up two big sailing records while taking her climate message across the ditch

Apr 16, 2024 | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick |Charlie David Page

The 2022 Australian Geographic Adventurer of the Year and 2017 Spirit of Adventure winner has just set two new sailing speed records (yet to be ratified by WSSRC) for the fastest time from Sydney to Auckland, slicing an incredible more than 4 days off the old record to finish in 8 days, 3 hours and 19 minutes on 9 April 2024. She also achieved the first woman, solo monohull record for the ocean crossing.
Australian Geographic Adventurer of the Year Awards 2024: Nominations now open!

Apr 10, 2024 | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick |Charlie David Page

Australian Geographic’s annual awards for adventure are the longest-running and most prestigious accolades for the adventure community in Australia. With the launch of our new Australian Geographic Awards for Nature earlier this year, we have taken the conservation categories out of our annual merit awards and will focus solely on awarding achievements in adventure and exploration. The four categories are listed below, and we invite you to submit your nominations here. Nominations close on 30 June.
Flying around Australia to recreate historic flight from 100 years ago

Apr 4, 2024 | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick |Charlie David Page

Trailblazing aviator Michael Smith won the coveted Australian Geographic Adventurer of the Year medallion in 2016 for his round-the-world solo flight in a custom-built seaplane. Enchanted by the luxury, glamour and romance of the Qantas flying boats of the 1930s, Michael hoped to retrace the original “kangaroo route” between Australia and England as closely as possible.
Rescuing an emblem

Feb 28, 2024 | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick |Candice Marshall

There are few Aussie marsupials as instantly recognisable as the bilby – or more specifically the greater bilby. It’s those ears, of course. But then the bright spark who started the push to replace the pesky introduced European rabbit with the charismatic native bilby as Australia’s Easter chocolate treat of choice may have also had something to do with it. Despite the proliferation of the confectionary versions, the real bilby is among our most at-risk animals.
'Australia’s Most Endangered': Introducing Australian Geographic Society's new fundraisers

Feb 28, 2024 | australiangeographic.com.au | Chrissie Goldrick |Candice Marshall

To support this new campaign, the Australian Geographic Society will identify conservation organisations working at scale across the nation and partner with those that are deploying the latest science and innovative technologies, calling on First Nations knowledge for help, enjoying strong community engagement, and running highly effective public education programs. Each partner will become the beneficiary of all funds contributed through this program for a period of one year.