Greg Callaghan

Sydney

Deputy Editor and Writer, Good Weekend at Sydney Morning Herald

Deputy Editor and Writer, Good Weekend at The Age

Deputy editor/writer for Good Weekend in Sydney Morning Herald/ The Age. Host of the true-crime podcast Bondi Badlands, released through the Herald & The Age.

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Articles

Love Tesla but not Elon Musk? There’s a bumper sticker for that

2 months ago | smh.com.au | Greg Callaghan |Katrina Strickland |Damien Woolnough |Melanie Kembrey

Journalist Carl Miller has a dilemma. He has gained access to a site on the dark web where people can hire a murderer to kill someone they know. It turns out to be a scam run by a Romanian who pockets the money for hits that are never carried out – but Miller has the names and personal details of the intended victims and realises their lives are potentially in danger because someone they know has paid thousands of dollars to have them killed. What does he do? Does he try to warn them?
Love Tesla but not Elon Musk? There’s a bumper sticker for that

2 months ago | watoday.com.au | Greg Callaghan |Katrina Strickland |Damien Woolnough |Melanie Kembrey

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From Pam Anderson to Patti Smith, the celebrity blog has been resurrected by Substack

Nov 14, 2024 | smh.com.au | Lauren Ironmonger |Greg Callaghan |Damien Woolnough |Melanie Kembrey

By Lauren Ironmonger, Greg Callaghan, Damien Woolnough, Melanie Kembrey, Susan Horsburgh and Dani Valent November 15, 2024 — 3.57pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It’s never been truer that anyone can be a writer, with a recent spate of celebrities – Pamela Anderson and Ella Emhoff (Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter), to name a couple – flocking to newsletter platform Substack.
Watergate journo Bob Woodward goes to War in his latest book

Nov 1, 2024 | smh.com.au | Greg Callaghan |Barry Divola |Jonathan Seidler

By Greg Callaghan, Frances Mocnik, Barry Divola, Jonathan Seidler and Damien Woolnough November 1, 2024 — 3.55pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Way back in 1989, when the world felt far more stable and predictable than it does today, journalist Bob Woodward interviewed Donald Trump, then a brash, big-shot, real-estate tycoon in Manhattan.
He coined the term ‘tipping point’ – then COVID superspreaders made him reconsider

Oct 23, 2024 | smh.com.au | Greg Callaghan

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. No one can say exactly when the term “tipping point” was coined, but if there’s one person we can blame squarely for its abundant, throwaway use today – to signify everything from melting Antarctic ice sheets to decider states in the US presidential election, to the Middle East being on a knife edge and the push for transgender equality – it’s Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell.
‘Life-seeing’: Could this travel trend be the antidote to overtourism?

Sep 25, 2024 | smh.com.au | Greg Callaghan |Nicole Abadee |Barry Divola |Sharon Bradley

By Greg Callaghan, Nicole Abadee, Barry Divola, Sharon Bradley, Dani Valent and Damien Woolnough September 26, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If there’s one word that’s been regularly bobbing up in travel headlines this year it’s “overtourism”.
‘Life-seeing’: Could this travel trend be the antidote to overtourism?

Sep 25, 2024 | theage.com.au | Greg Callaghan |Nicole Abadee |Barry Divola |Sharon Bradley |Dani Valent |Damien Woolnough

By Greg Callaghan, Nicole Abadee, Barry Divola, Sharon Bradley, Dani Valent and Damien Woolnough September 26, 2024 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. SPOTLIGHT / The roads less travelledThe extent of tourism in Venice is irking locals.Credit: Getty ImagesIf there’s one word that’s been regularly bobbing up in travel headlines this year it’s “overtourism”.
The July 13 Edition

Jul 12, 2024 | smh.com.au | Greg Callaghan |Helen Pitt |Gail Rice

They were negotiating the skinny, inner-city streets when Nev pulled over to accommodate an approaching car, blasted the horn and waved sarcastically at the oblivious, passing motorist. In the back seat, Emma and Tom exchanged a look. "No wave?" Tom said. "No f---in' wave," Nev confirmed. "It's what's wrong with the world, I reckon," Emma said, mimicking Nev's baritone. "If you ask me," Tom growled, "the social contract's breaking down." Nev eyed them in the rear-view mirror. "Mock all you like.
Left to rot: The 'ghost homes' scourge in our big cities

Jul 12, 2024 | smh.com.au | Greg Callaghan

Empty homes are not an uncommon sight in the inner-western area of Sydney where I live, encompassing the suburbs of Newtown, Erskineville, Enmore and Alexandria. I've counted eight empty or "ghost" homes within a leisurely 10-minute dog walk from my home. At the bottom of King Street, once dubbed the "Athens end" of Newtown, stand two adjoining gentlemen's terraces, unoccupied for more than 17 years; once a haven for squatters, they're now uninhabitable.
Left to rot: The ‘ghost homes’ scourge in our big cities – amid a housing crisis

Jul 12, 2024 | theage.com.au | Greg Callaghan

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the July 13 edition of Good Weekend.See all 12 stories. Angry flames burst through the slate roof as if ignited by a grenade, soaring high into the night sky, shrouding the fairytale house in a hellfire orange haze.