Victoria Laurie
Victoria Laurie is a senior reporter and feature writer who has written for Good Weekend, The Australian, The Bulletin, The Monthly, HQ, Australian Geographic and The Weekend Australian Magazine.
Inside the ‘biggest of its kind’ university campus in the heart of a major CBD
The newest university campus in Perth boasts zero noise and vibration despite its location on top of a noisy bus port and two railway tunnels in the heart of the CBD.
- Victoria Laurie
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‘Cockatoo Club Med’: DIY renos saving a species from extinction
The detailed study of Western Australia’s white-tailed black cockatoos has revealed that repairing natural tree hollows is a way of securing their survival.
- Victoria Laurie
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- Endangered species
‘It was like a dream’: How Australia’s rarest bird of prey was found in WA’s north
The hunt for the red goshawk has delivered an early Christmas gift.
- Victoria Laurie
The humble scientist who became the world’s greatest eucalypt expert
Revered for millennia in Indigenous culture, our gum trees continue to surprise botanists today.
- Victoria Laurie
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- Ningaloo Reef
How Tim Winton hopes to inspire a generation of ‘ocean defenders’
It is with perfect timing that the first children’s book the acclaimed Australian author has produced in 20 years is about to be released next week.
- Victoria Laurie
Not your average tech bro: The boy from the bush behind a digital juggernaut
Rather than make potential billions, Martin Dougiamas made his “digital campus”, Moodle, a gift for learners.
- Victoria Laurie
Those left behind: The long shadow of Britain’s nuclear testing in WA
The era of British atomic tests on West Australian soil has had enduring fallout. Now, the descendants of the servicemen exposed have made an emotional pilgrimage.
- Victoria Laurie
Perth’s leading Aboriginal corporation flags bringing heritage work in-house after split with private firm
An Aboriginal corporation with a crucial role in heritage approvals across metropolitan Perth says it has severed ties with its heritage service provider.
- Victoria Laurie
They were on opposing sides at Hiroshima in 1945. Now, they’re campaigning together
Nearly 80 years after the US dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, two survivors warn of the catastrophic consequences of nuclear war.
- Victoria Laurie
WA councils want to outlaw roaming cats. Here’s what’s stopping them
Perth’s Cat Haven could halve its annual intake if councils made cat containment laws, it says – and many councils are trying.
- Victoria Laurie