Jock Serong

Jan 14, 2025 | goodreadingmagazine.com.au | Robbie Arnott |Jock Serong |Christian White |Tim Winton

Bookshops. Like libraries, we just love them. They are places we can find a bit of romance, inspirational stories and even some murderous tales.

Nov 18, 2024 | adventure.com | Jock Serong

Sail for four days off Australia’s westernmost coast and you’ll find the rich, biodiverse Scott Reef, a key migratory route for pygmy blue whales. But it’s also home to abundant gas and oil reserves. Jock Serong dives into the threats it’s facing, and what Greenpeace Australia Pacific is doing to prevent them. Australians are good at protecting the natural assets we can see.

Mar 21, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Jock Serong |Sean Kelly |Russell Marks |Ceridwen Spark

How menswear retailer Fletcher Jones built a factory, a community and an idea of the future in Warrnambool, Victoria For anyone living in Melbourne in the mid 1990s, the name Fletcher Jones meant only one thing: slacks. Daggy slacks, dad slacks, slacks invested with a certain Benson & Hedges virility that called to mind a David Parkin three-quarter-time bake, paired with a madly bulging temporal vein that, in turn, evoked Clint Eastwood.

Mar 21, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Ceridwen Spark |Sean Kelly |Russell Marks |Jock Serong

Samoa’s formidable prime minister Fiamē Naomi Mata‘afa, a traditional leader exercising modern power In March 2023, I found myself in Samoa, seated at an outdoor table surrounded by matais (high chiefs) and being fanned by a local teenager. There was an enormous meal in front of me and I had just swum in the Pacific Ocean, on the south side of Upolu, the island on which Apia, the capital of Samoa, is located.

Mar 21, 2024 | themonthly.com.au | Russell Marks |Sean Kelly |Ceridwen Spark |Jock Serong

Pressures on our public hospitals can result in long waits for treatment and elective procedures – but is the answer to let patients pay to jump the queue? Like many one-year-olds, Sam goes to childcare three days each week. That is, when he’s healthy enough.