Patrick Elligett

Melbourne

Editor at The Age

Editor of The Age. Failed athlete. Irrational hatred of ampersands. Views are my own. Typos belong to someone else.

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Articles

Flying pigs, lolly snakes and a 19-gun salute: A week in the life of our economics correspondent

3 weeks ago | theage.com.au | Shane Wright |Patrick Elligett

By Shane Wright and Patrick Elligett March 28, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Most of the action has been in Canberra this week, as the eyes of the nation turned to Tuesday’s federal budget, Thursday’s budget reply and this morning, the calling of the federal election for May 3.
On the ground in Alfred’s wake

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Adam Carey |Patrick Elligett

By Adam Carey and Patrick Elligett March 14, 2025 — 7.30pm, 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 time last week, like so many Australians, I watched transfixed as Tropical Cyclone Alfred edged closer to the coast of southern Queensland, threatening to devastate communities with 100km/h wind and flooding rains.
Of all the ‘unimportant’ topics we cover, this one is the most important

1 month ago | theage.com.au | Patrick Elligett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I frequently write to you about the important public interest journalism of The Age. There is plenty of it.
Greg Baum retires at the top of his game - but there is some good news

2 months ago | theage.com.au | Patrick Elligett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sports stars rarely step down at their peak. A champion’s determination wills them to fight on while the world watches them struggle against the tide of age – an opponent one can resist but not defeat. That same attitude that drives them to excellence, titles and adoration encourages them to keep going, until they have squeezed body and mind for every last drop.
Greg Baum retires at the top of his game - but there is some good news

2 months ago | watoday.com.au | Patrick Elligett

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How The Age impacted Victoria and Australia in 2024

Dec 19, 2024 | theage.com.au | Patrick Elligett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There are a dizzying number of metrics in modern media. Journalists consider pageviews, engagement time, sessions per user, scroll depth, click-through rates, open rates and newspaper sales regularly in the course of their work. There are days when all of the above will enter an editor’s mind before they have flicked on the kettle.
Why Do People Queue for Brunch? The Explainer Guide to Modern Mysteries from The Age

Dec 6, 2024 | theage.com.au | Patrick Elligett |Felicity Lewis

By Patrick Elligett and Felicity Lewis December 6, 2024 — 7.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Age has been helping readers make sense of complicated issues for 170 years, and in more recent years we’ve done that with the help of a dedicated Explainers team.
As our newsroom changes, our determination to fight for truth remains constant

Oct 31, 2024 | theage.com.au | Patrick Elligett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The perception of newspaper newsrooms as stodgy, staid institutions is unwarranted in my view. In recent years they have been places of great change, forced – reluctantly in some cases – to adapt to developments in technology, audience behaviour and different commercial models.
‘One of the great newspapers’: The Age celebrates its grand history, but looks to a bright future

Oct 16, 2024 | theage.com.au | Patrick Elligett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We’ve been asking the questions you want answered since 1854. In this collection, we reflect on the tradition of courageous journalism as we look to the future.See all 11 stories. On October 17, 1854, there was excitement in Melbourne, the beating heart of a colony riding its luck through an era of gold rush prosperity.
Into the conflict zone

Oct 3, 2024 | theage.com.au | Patrick Elligett |Matthew Knott

By Patrick Elligett, Matthew Knott and Kate Geraghty October 4, 2024 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It has been a week of troubling developments in the Middle East as the conflict there escalates. I’ve written to you in the past about our foreign correspondents and the lengths they go to in order to bring you the story.