Working with developers, reporters, cartoonists, and editors at Newscorp, Fairfax Media and Channel Nine I’ve produced exclusive feature articles and many page-one stories.

I’ve anchored the Herald’s HSC annual ranking of NSW high schools from 2018 to 2023 and found better metrics to measure public school performance, which has converted more people to subscribe to the paper than any other story in 2023.

I analysed a decade of census data to find the jobs that have grown and shrunk the most since 2011. I pitched, researched and helped produce an analysis of 123 years of federal budget speeches.

In 2022, I found a trove of leaked documents the AFP were unaware of that detailed (in Spanish) secret operations in Columbia, revealing how budget constraints hamper the prosecution of international drug cartels.

Features: A Tale of two Sydneys was a series of stories I co-produced driven by data comparing the eastern and western suburbs of the city.

Stories about Transport: 
I’ve written op-eds about why Sydney hates cyclists, and traffic analysis and looking at the effect of clearways on Sydney.

This story about drink driving used exclusive data from the Bureau of crime statistics. Cyclists suffering abuse on the road and online and where cyclists crash.

ABS statistics-based stories

on income, gender bias and this one about median income changes.

Housing issues: Patterns of development in Sydney. Homelessness caused by the property boom.

Technology-based articles: Machine learning compares Sydney to Paris. The dark side of data looked at why personal data matters.

Other topics:

The price of home delivery in Sydney, the effect of parking in disabled spaces,  Greyhound drugging, poker machines.

I have produced more than 100 leads for stories featured in all 20 Newslocal newspapers and other NewsCorp publications, since 2015. Some examples are below.

This story was part of the 2016 Federal election coverage, that showed the 17 federal seats with the fewest people on Newstart, were all held by the Liberal party.

Negative gearing was a battleground in the 2016 federal election and this story outlined the major party positions on the issue supported by data showing the local benefits.

Liberal candidate for Berowra Julian Leeser is standing by the controversial tax break which benefits about 10 per cent of people in the local area who negatively gear property.

Labor and the Greens candidates say the other 77,000 voters deserve better than a policy that costs billions each year and pushes up house prices.

Other political stories picked up by mass media include links between Federal and NSW Treasurers quoted by the state political editor of the Daily Telegraph.

Ms Berejiklian, 44, met Mr Hockey, 49, more than 20 years ago when they were both in the Young Liberals and they have been good friends ever since.

“We’re always there at the end of the phone for each other if we need to be,” Ms Berejiklian said.

They both worked in the office of former state Liberal leader Peter Collins in the early 1990s and their paths have crossed at crucial times since. For example as president of the Young Liberals, ­Ms Berejiklian was on the preselection panel when Mr Hockey first ran for the seat of North Sydney…

My story about funding for the $3 Billion NorthConnex tunnel was based on my analysis during the 2015 NSW budget lockup & was followed by major news outlets.

WESTERN Sydney motorists using the M7 will be forced to pay tolls for an extra 11 years to help fund the city’s “missing link” — a tunnel under Pennant Hills Road in the northern suburbs.

The State Government has confirmed the M7 toll concession, which was due to end in 2037, will be extended until 2048 to raise funds for $3 billion NorthConnex which will connect the M1 and the M2 motorways.

My story about renaming suburbs in Blacktown was picked up by 2UE, 2GB and most news bulletins.

HE may be a Labor hero but Gough Whitlam’s legacy is so strong even Liberal politicians want to re-name a city in his honour.

Labor’s Blacktown mayor Stephen Bali applied to name a new suburb and a new North West Rail Link station after the late Gough Whitlam last week.

But his Liberal colleagues want to go further and make Blacktown Gough’s town by calling it Whitlam City…

This story looked at the cost to be in the race to be mayor of Willoughby.

Mayoral candidates in a north shore council area are splashing more than $100,000 campaigning for a role that pays just $50,000 a year.

Data from the NSW electoral commission has revealed Willoughby mayor hopefuls spent up to $112,060 last year campaigning for the top job, leading many to question whether it had become the domain of the elite.

I covered the NSW Budget for the 20 Newslocal mastheads in 2014 and 2015 and 2017.

And here’s a story about the history of Chinese Restaurants in Blacktown!

Family-owned Chinese restaurants came to western Sydney in the late 1970s, and many are still rocking the same decor — and staff — more than 40 years later.

Even the prices barely seemed to have changed, with some restaurants still offering wine by the glass for only a few dollars.